It’s already started:
“There is a wave of consolidation coming in tech and particularly software,” said Ryan Nolan, global co-head of software investment banking at Goldman Sachs. He said many of the approximately 1,000 unicorns — tech start-ups valued at more than $1bn — are “stuck without a clear path to liquidity”.
[FinancialTimes]
After making its LLaMA AI model available to researchers and academics earlier this year, only to see it leak online, Meta is reportedly planning an imminent commercial release. The Financial Times is reporting that the software will be customizable by companies, allowing organizations to build software on top of it. Meta has said it wants to take an open approach to AI development.
[FinancialTimes]
But according to Rest of World, they’re also the first ones that feel the brunt of it. While having AI skills boosts their profile in freelance portals, they will have to rely on human creativity and ingenuity to beat the robots. And well, it’s also outsourced workers that are the backbone of AI anyway.
Even the development of generative AI requires human intervention, a role that often also falls to offshore outsourced workers. Each training data set used to develop a tool like Dall-E began with a human data worker matching an image to an associated word. And content moderators help refine the model that powers ChatGPT — for example, by flagging hateful or toxic speech.
[Rest of World]
Other than totally crushing my battery, and a weird keyboard bug in iOS 17, Apple’s new betas have been pretty solid! We dug into what we’re seeing in them so far, then had a long philosophical debate about LLMs and GPTs, before clearing our calendars for the games of the summer. But mostly this episode is about my deep loathing of the Wimbledon AI commentary. It’s The Vergecast!
