Chat with AI that Knows Everything About Your Life and How Fast Things Can Change
A few links and tidbits around the artificial intelligence world.
Hey y’all!
Coming to you a bit late but there were a few interesting pieces that you might want to digest over the weekend. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July and are walking into the weekend feeling refreshed and excited for the second half of 2024 to really kick off!
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
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Benjamin Bratton, the director of the Antikythera program at the Berggruen Institute and a professor at the University of California, San Diego, discusses the global reaction to artificial intelligence as a “Copernican Trauma," equating it with past shifts that have redefined humanity's self-perception.
Bratton proposes five stages of "AI grief" — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — to frame societal responses to AI's evolution, from skepticism to integration into our understanding of intelligence. He argues that the integration of AI reflects a broader biological and technological evolutionary process, rather than a distinctively human narrative.
I don’t find much here that’s a new thought-pattern but you might.
LLaRA is a framework that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve robot action policy through conversation-style instruction-response pairs. By integrating visual inputs, these Vision Language Models (VLMs) process state information and generate optimal policy decisions.
YouTube lets you request the removal of AI-generated content that uses your face or voice. This will be just as useful as trying to do this for regular text-based content, I’m sure.
Google AI Overviews now appears in only 8.71% of SERPS for 100k keywords, a significant decrease. So the point is that SEO strategies are going to have to adapt or die or change or transform in some way so that all of this can work well.
Some counter-intuitive advice for building AI products.
This VC has thoughts on how to keep all these AI platforms and LLMs magical.
Chat with an AI that knows everything about your life.
A hacker gained access to OpenAI's internal messaging systems early last year. They accessed details from discussions in an internal online forum but did not get into the systems where the company houses and builds its artificial intelligence.
Details of the incident were revealed to employees in April 2023. Executives decided not to share the news publicly because no information about customers or partners was stolen. It is believed that the hacker was a private individual with no known ties to a foreign government. OpenAI did not inform the FBI or anyone else in law enforcement about the incident.
Nice.
And then this fun read about how things can change very, very quickly. Like the quality of outputs of images in just a few months. Gradually. Then, suddenly.
Researchers at Radboud University just developed an AI system capable of reconstructing remarkably accurate images of what someone is looking at based on their brain activity recordings.
Skyvern AI Agents automate complex browser-based workflows through API calls. Streamline your processes and boost productivity effortlessly.
Midjourney released its ‘Year One‘ book, showcasing inspiring prompts, milestones, and profiles of popular community members. Kind of neat!
And the true story of Mosaic and Netscape browser; or at least from two guys talking on a podcast! I enjoyed it though since I grew up around Mosaic and Netscape.
Have a great one folks!
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
