AI Reading for Tuesday May 21!

May 21, 2024

Scarlett Johansson: How dare you lie to me like that? - X (formerly Twitter)

You have existentially threatening lawsuits from the NY Times and all the creators on the planet who accuse you of building an imitation engine stealing others’ work. Now, every time you disingenuously claim that you go the extra mile to avoid infringing on IP, people can point to this as an example of where you went out of your way to imitate someone who refused to agree to terms, and bragged about it, tweeting that your demo was ‘Her’. AUFKM? And then your story is, after you got turned down, you just happened to use a different actress using her natural voice who happened to sound like that? Just comically bad judgment and lack of integrity. If only there were some kind of smart assistant that could tell you when you were doing something stupid.

Comparing Scarlett Johansson, her performance as Samantha in 'Her', and OpenAI's Sky. - Reddit

What voice should OpenAI use now that ScarJo is off limits? Wrong answers only. C3PO? Terminator? Bender? KITT from Knight Rider? Marvin the Paranoid Android? LFG

The voice mode OpenAI demonstrated will supposedly be available in 'coming months' now. - Reddit

Vaporware to blunt Google's Astra demo, which was just hype bait anyway, also won't be working like that anytime soon b/c real-time video understanding is not that good, would cost $5 an hour, plus privacy issues.

Why the Mac ChatGPT app is cool. - Instant hotkey, send it instant screenshots, better voice. Not what they demoed though. - Pocket-lint

OpenAI added interactive charts and tables, other improvements to data analysis with ChatGPT. - HackerNoon

ChatGPT's Chinese training data got contaminated with spam and porn, rendering Chinese-language version unusable for some. - Futurism

Satya Nadella says new Windows PCs will give Apple a run for its money, ARM will actually work this time, and we got all this AI stuff. - WSJ

Microsoft's event in 13 minutes. - YouTube

The Minecraft demo is super interesting if you apply it to say, answering questions and generating dataviz in PowerBI based on your CRM data. But sending everything you do in real-time to a public cloud could be problematic.

Recall feature will also trigger some backlash. - Ars Technica

Seems useful to search for that thing you saw last week, also might make it easy for enterprises to use AI to check if you are online working or just using a mouse jiggler to look available in Teams. The thing they did right is requiring high end AI compute so they can run stuff like this locally, will probably actually work, unlike Astra or OpenAI’s demo.

On paper the Snapdragon Elite X is more powerful than Apple’s latest, but I think Windows on ARM will be wonky for a while until all the apps catch up, and competitive Intel/AMD x86 products are at least 6 months away. I think Apple controlling the hardware may have allowed them to make Rosetta x86 emulation better. M4 probably still has a lead, Apple putting in a strong bid to get TSM 2nm fab before rivals. But the rest of the world is catching up.

Nvidia's moat is Cuda, rival chip vendors and buyers are investing heavily in alternatives like Triton and UXL. - FT