“The broader context of what [AI] could mean is it’ll dramatically improve the efficacy of education, dramatically reduce cost, make education more equitable, give people global opportunity, and increase productivity and knowledge,”
@paulroetzer
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Pre-trained AI Models Transform Software Development Architecture
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“Pre-trained AI models represent the most important architectural change in software since the internet. They make it possible for developers to build incredible AI apps, in days, that surpass supervised ML projects that took big teams months to build.” https://
a16z.com/2023/06/20/eme
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AI Novel Writing and Copyright Ownership Legal Issues
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AI as a novel writer is now a thing. Note, you don’t own the copyright to anything AI creates. Prompts don’t equal authorship according to current U.S. copyright law. https://t.co/K9XDJb6Dy7
— Paul Roetzer (@paulroetzer) 21 juin 2023AI as a novel writer is now a thing. Note, you don’t own the copyright to anything AI creates. Prompts don’t equal authorship according to current U.S. copyright law.
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Navigating AI-Assisted World Safely and Equitably
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“Our usual technology paradigms will not serve as an adequate guide for navigating these uncharted waters. Perhaps the greatest challenge will be transitioning to a new AI-assisted world as safely, wisely, and equitably as possible.” https://
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Meta restricts Voicebox generative speech model due to misuse risks
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“There are many exciting use cases for generative speech models, but because of the potential risks of misuse, we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time.”
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AI Models as Primary Interface for Daily Digital Interaction
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This is excellent. “I think in the same way that most of us probably spend the majority of our time on a device, on a screen … a big chunk of your time is going to be spent communicating with these models. They are going to be your interface to the world.”
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Half of Marketing and Logistics Workers Fear AI Job Loss
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“Roughly half of workers in advertising & marketing (51%) and business support and logistics (46%) worried AI will soon take their job – twice the level of concern overall.”
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Oracle Embeds Cohere’s Generative AI Into Products
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“Oracle will be embedding Cohere's generative AI technology into a bunch of its products and Cohere will be using Oracle's cloud to train, build, and deploy its generative AI models,”
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Top 30 AI News Stories of 2026 Mid-Year Review
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We’re recapping 30 of the biggest AI news items of the year to date in this special edition (almost) mid-year review podcast episode. My original thought was to do a top 10 of 2023, but it quickly became obvious that we weren’t going to be able to pick only 10 (March 2023 was
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Salesforce Launches AI Cloud Suite at $360K Annual Starter
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“AI Cloud will include Salesforce's products from the Einstein service to workplace-messaging app Slack and data analysis software Tableau. Its starter pack will be available for $360,000 annually”