Here’s the kitchen sink for July 19, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!
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Here is the kitchen sink for July 19, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Inherent Risk, and Why it Really Matters: Very comprehensive discussion of the concept of inherent risk by Gretchen Ruck on the EDRM blog with useful graphics. As she notes: “It might be easier to understand inherent risk by thinking about saying, ‘think globally and act locally’”.
OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework: OpenAI recently unveiled a five-tier system to gauge its advancement toward developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). They’re supposedly close to level 2, which is “Reasoners, human-level problem solving”. Gulp. 😮
Best Practices for Managing and Scaling Generative AI: Another comprehensive article with an eye-opening initial stat: By 2025, it is estimated that there will be 750 million apps using large language models (LLMs), and 50% of digital work will be automated through LLM-based software. You know that’s in less than six months, right? 😉
The Increasing Value of Human Time in the Age of Advanced AI: Olga Mack and Kassi Burns discuss how, despite AI’s growing capabilities, the essence of innovation and artistic creation remains distinctly human. AI can summarize ten hours of audio files much quicker than a lawyer, and it can generate 34 billion images per day, but none of them will compare to the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Ray Kurzweil’s New Book: The Singularity is Nearer (when we merge with AI): Ralph Losey discusses the new book of “a great thinker and prophet of a golden age of AI”, who predicts AGI by 2029, and The Singularity by 2045. What’s that? When you read it, you’ll say “Gulp!” again.
The Rise of AI in Newsrooms: Balancing Innovation and Trust: No surprise at all that, as Rob Robinson notes, various media outlets are exploring and implementing AI-based tools to streamline their operations. The key is having human oversight to ensure accuracy and quality.
YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos: Hey, if you read the Kitchen Sink every week, you’d know that already! 😉
Former OpenAI researcher’s new company will teach you how to build an LLM: Eureka! See what I did there? You will if you read the article. I want to take the class – if I can find the time, that is. 😐
Massive AT&T Data Breach Gives Rise to Crop of Class Action Suits: The other shoe is already dropping in the massive AT&T data breach we learned about earlier in the week. Nearly all of AT&T’s 241 million wireless customers and customers of mobile virtual network operators were impacted by the breach, the suits claim. To have data is to have it compromised at some point, it seems. Sigh.
23% of U.S. adults now use AI language models like ChatGPT – the tipping point: 23% doesn’t sound like much, but that puts adoption into the early majority phase. This is important because it means that the adoption of such AI systems has passed the tipping point and moved into the zone where its embrace in society is moving into broad swaths of the population. As Stephen Abram notes: “we have never seen a consumer electronic technology embraced so rapidly and so broadly as LLMs, particularly ChatGPT.”
Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for July 19, 2024! Back next week with another edition!
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