AI Reading for Thursday November 21

Nov 21, 2024

TL;DR of the OpenAI emails that came out last week. - Washington Post

Sounds like, Musk had enough of all the drama and prima donna BS and said, fold it into Tesla or I'm not funding it any more, OpenAI did the Microsoft deal instead.

xAI says it closed a $5b round, Musk says they will have a big new model in December that beats everything on all metrics. - WSJ

OpenAI says it accidentally deleted work plaintiffs did to find potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit - TechCrunch

OpenAI says ChatGPT creative writing got a boost, is more natural now - Digital Trends

The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired - WIRED

‘-AI’ now turns off AI summaries in Google searches - ZDNET

Steven Levy on Satya Nadella's unbelievable Microsoft turnaround - WIRED

DoJ officially seeks divestment of Chrome, other steps to increase competition in search. I guess it will be up to Matt Gaetz or a similarly unqualified water carrier AG to continue or halt the action. The shenanigans and insider trading by the incoming band of mountebanks and con artists are going to to be off the charts. Then in 4 years they will do anything to stay in power and prevent any accountability.

There is a lot of consensus that Google has a lot of market power but not much consensus on what to do about it. - WIRED

Without thinking too deeply about it I’m not sure why it would not be enough to enforce a consent decree opening up APIs and preventing locking people into browser and search engines via anticompetitive exclusive deals.

Otter.ai's founder says they can unlock the power of meetings. - FT

AI tries to create personality replicas / 'digital twins' based on a two-hour interview. - MIT Technology Review

A deeper Myers-Briggs type indicator? Train it on further on all your daily meetings and emails and phone conversations? A/B test emails about return to office and speeches about cost-cutting to reduce workplace shootings?