James Vincent
An audience reaction worth $3,499.
When Apple unveiled the price-tag for the Vision Pro there were groans aplenty from those watching on big screens. Not a great litmus test for whether it’s worth the money.
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“What is artificial intelligence? A poor choice of words in 1954.”
Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang has become one of the most perceptive voices on AI and is on typically good form in this interview with The Financial Times.
The quote above is a reference to the famous Dartmouth workshop (though that took place in 1956), in which scientists set the foundations for the field — and found a whole lot of trouble on the way.
Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’
[The Financial Times]
James Vincent
Not so stable diffusion.
There’s a big report on troubles at AI startup Stability AI from Forbes.
The article, citing interviews with more than 30 sources, paints a picture of a shaky business run by a founder, Emad Mostaque, who’s skilled at taking credit for others’ work and exaggerating his own achievements. It follows earlier stories about the firm burning through cash. Mostaque himself has responded here to the allegations put forward by Forbes.
It’s tricky to parse this evidence. Is missing payroll a damning sign of incompetence, for example, or unsurprising for a fast-moving startup? We’ll have to see how Stability AI navigates these rapids.
James Vincent
Sergey Brin is funding an “airship empire.”
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been putting money into airships for a while now, but Ashlee Vance has a new report on his work with LTA (Lighter Than Air Research).
Vance doesn’t shed much light on why Brin is funding this (apart from the fact he obviously likes airships) but it seems a slow and gentle launch of the project is getting closer.
James Vincent
OpenAI’s ChatGPT iOS app gets an international expansion.
The app, which launched last week in the US, is now also available in Albania, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Korea, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and the UK. You can also now browse the web with Bing if you’re a paid user, and disable chat history.
ChatGPT — Release Notes | OpenAI Help Center
[help.openai.com]
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“For a laid-off digital media worker, I suggest trying the one-pan chicken.”
BuzzFeed’s AI experiments continue. The company has shuttered its newsroom, but launched a new ChatGPT-powered bot in its Tasty app that gives meal recommendations. It’s called... Botatouille. NYT has the story, along with some interesting snippets from CEO Jonah Peretti:
“Even if you were, like, an evil CEO trying to replace all journalists with AI, you would be very unsuccessful.”
BuzzFeed Tries to Ride the A.I. Wave. Who’s Hungry?
[The New York Times]
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