My good friend Eric Savitz has published a lovely feature on the competition against Nvidia for Barron's, with excellent data and examples. I've been writing about the AI chip competition to Nvidia for almost a decade. In all that time, no one has put a dent in Nvidia's
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Meta AI’s Inadequate Safety Guardrails Criticized
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Half-baked guardrails FTW @metaai Cc @KatieConradKS @Rahll https://
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ChatGPT suggests Biden for US wellbeing vote
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So if you ask ChatGPT who to vote for the sake of US wellbeing.. It’s Biden.
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Meta’s AR Assistant and Neural Interface Dataset Development
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Also this dataset reminds me a lot of what Meta is doing to build a real world AR assistant and neural interfaces https://t.co/LX9O7bWH5E
— Bilawal Sidhu (@bilawalsidhu) 21 avril 2024Also this dataset reminds me a lot of what Meta is doing to build a real world AR assistant and neural interfaces
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Amazon Alexa Spending Analysis: Big Tech Investment Breakdown
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Details on Alexa spending https://
matthewball.co/all/bigtechbig
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Groupthink versus Tulips: AI Market Rationality Questioned
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https://
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ersus-tulips-what-will?r=8tdk6
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Amazon’s Massive Investment in Alexa Development and Resources
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I don’t think people realize the scale of the very largest tech companies & the resources they can deploy.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 21 avril 2024
Amazon has spent between $20B & $43B on Alexa alone & has/had 10,000 people working on it. https://t.co/S0FBYmdVVyI don’t think people realize the scale of the very largest tech companies & the resources they can deploy. Amazon has spent between $20B & $43B on Alexa alone & has/had 10,000 people working on it.
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Big Tech’s Defense Contractor Role and State Surveillance Provision
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Extremely important research. It's not possible to understand the state of BigTech, or its pathologies at the moment, without understanding these companies' transformation into defense contractors, in addition to their central role as surveillance providers to the state.
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Government Dependence on BigTech Undermines Antitrust Efforts
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Those fighting to reduce BigTech's concentration need to recognize that integration of BigTech infra into gov–via Military contracts, gov't surveillance, etc–is contrary to their aims. The more gov is dependent on BigTech, the harder it will be to check their size/power.
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Foreign Media Ownership and Democratic Protection Debate
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Rhetorical tweet.
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 21 avril 2024
Why do “free speech” defenders equate forcing a foreign government to divest from a media platform with banning free speech?
It’s not about banning TikTok—it’s about protecting our democracy from external manipulation but that part keeps getting downplayed in… pic.twitter.com/87VSXPHWdhRhetorical tweet. Why do “free speech” defenders equate forcing a foreign government to divest from a media platform with banning free speech? It’s not about banning TikTok—it’s about protecting our democracy from external manipulation but that part keeps getting downplayed in