AI Reading for Friday May 17
Initial LMSYS ranking shows a big jump for GPT-4o, once again the clear leader.
ISIS generates propaganda with AI - Washington Post
Snowflake in talks to buy Reka, a small well-heeled startup which has the #9 model on Chatbot Arena. - Tech Times
Buterin says ChatGPT passes the Turing test. - Cointelegraph
Blackrock CEO had ChatGPT summarize a memo, distributed it, no one knew it was AI-generated - Business Insider
If AI can write stuff and no one can tell if it was written by man or machine, it passed a Turing test. AI passes all the time in those ‘AI or not’ quizzes in the Washington Post, when kids submit AI-assisted papers etc. Of course there are ways to trip up a chatbot or move the goalposts, seems like splitting hairs.
Sony sues Big Tech for training on songs. -BBC
Two voice actors say an A.I. company created clones of their voices without their permission. - NY Times
Can Scarlett Johansson sue OpenAI for stealing her voice? Is that an open secret and they are just getting away with it, or did she license it and they agreed not to talk about it for a while?
An interesting thread on scaling and why no GPT-5. I don't fully agree with it though. LLMs are still poorly understood. As people understand how LLMs do what they do, there will be breakthroughs as people discover how to make them do it better. - Twitter (Arvind Narayanan)
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