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Mature Open Source Technology Adopted by Major Tech Companies

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14 January 2025 20h37

yes its pretty mature – used by replit, uber, linkedin, etc

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Jensen Huang’s NVIDIA Transformation: Culture and Strategy

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14 January 2025 19h27

Author Tae Kim joins Erik Torenberg and Byrne Hobart to discuss his book 'The NVIDIA Way,' highlighting CEO Jensen Huang's transformation of NVIDIA into a tech giant, the company's unique culture, and crucial strategic decisions.

NYT v. OpenAI Oral Arguments: Legal Implications Analysis

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14 January 2025 19h15

Anyone hear today’s oral arguments in NYT v. OpenAI and want to share a quick POV before 3pm ET? Curious what everyone thought of both sides’ points, the case law cites, judge’s questions, potential outlook/implications, etc.

Copyright Law and AI Training Data: Copying as Injury

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14 January 2025 18h35

“The injury is the copying.” said a lawyer for the Center for Investigative Reporting, adding that U.S. copyright law only requires someone to prove copying rather than harm.

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AI Flooding Social Media Could Paradoxically Protect Human Cognition

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14 January 2025 17h53

> social media is poison to the human brain, pollutes status signaling mechanisms
> AI consumes all social media
> AI proceeds to poison social media with a flood of rubbish interfering with brain's status check mechanisms > social media unusable, saves human brain
> AI good

NYT Lawyer Distinguishes LLM Outputs from Search Engines

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14 January 2025 17h33

NYT's lawyer Ian Crosby said LLM outputs are just "the expression of the words and facts, not the underlying facts in the words and the models.” “They’re not next-generation search engines, but answer engines," Crosby said, adding that they're not substitutional.

OpenAI Lawyer Clarifies GPT Training Data in NYT Copyright Case

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14 January 2025 17h16

Judge just asked OpenAI's lawyer if GPT models have NYT content in its database. Lawyer said not doesn't, but then clarified it doesn’t have a database but instead relies on weights. I wonder how NYT's lawyers will respond to that.

OpenAI Lawyer Explains LLM Use Case in NYT Trial

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14 January 2025 17h11

One of OpenAI's lawyers in this NYT v OpenAI trial is explaining LLMs to the judge & said someone can use ChatGPT to make a letter to a landlord "sound less angry." haha I've literally did that when our heat went out last year! (Full circle with out heat broken again today.)

CMA Investigates SMS Status to Address Anti-Competitive Tech Behavior

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14 January 2025 17h03

If deemed to have SMS status, it could lead to @CMAgovUK to explore changes to prevent anti-competitive behavior. As part of the process, the CMA invites interested parties to submit commentary by February 3.