My book on the rise of A.I. arrives today (bit.ly/GeniusMakers), and this excerpt is where the book begins. It had to begin here. This is a story you have never heard, and it encapsulates a global arms race that is only just getting started:
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New York Times reporter, covering A.I., driverless cars, and other changes: cade.metz@nytimes.com. My book, "Genius Makers": bit.ly/GeniusMakers.
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"Everybody is agitated. There's a lot of value to be won or lost."
a dive into the chatbot turmoil sweeping Silicon Valley w/ &
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I went to Hungary to see how A.I. is being used by doctors to detect breast cancer that may otherwise be missed, one of the most tangible ways I’ve seen that A.I. can improve public health. W/
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"The problem is that most lawmakers do not even know what A.I. is, said Representative Jay Obernolte, a California Republican and the only member of Congress with a master’s degree in artificial intelligence." and sum it up:
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Entities that throw our deepest thoughts back at us: a common theme in fiction, from Shakespeare's The Tempest, to the 1950's space opera Forbidden Planet, Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris, and several others after that.
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When people chat with chatbots, they see what they want to see. A.I. pioneer Terry Sejnowski compares this to the Mirror of Erised in the Harry Potter books. The Mirror seems to provide truth. But really, it shows the desires of anyone who stares into it: nytimes.com/2023/02/26/tec
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Excellent explainer article . Why Do A.I. Chatbots Tell Lies and Act Weird? Look in the Mirror.
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When people chat with chatbots, they see what they want to see. A.I. pioneer Terry Sejnowski compares this to the Mirror of Erised in the Harry Potter books. The Mirror seems to provide truth. But really, it shows the desires of anyone who stares into it:
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Silicon Valley furniture hustlers are "capitalizing on a wave of tech companies that are drastically shrinking their physical footprints in the wake of the pandemic-induced shift to remote work and the recent economic slowdown," reports:
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"Elon Musk was right: Text messages are not the most secure way to protect your account." on one of those moments where the CEO of Twitter speaks the truth:
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"The FTX founder joined Jane Street Capital not to learn about controlling risk, which is its focus, but because the tenets of a philanthropic movement drew him there": , and on the pull of "Effective Altruism":
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Geoff Hinton auctioned his new #DeepLearning tech (NeurIPS paper) in 2012 for a whopping $44MN to that started the race for #AI . 10 yrs later,we had the #ChatGPT moment with trillions at stake looking fwd to a sequel to Genius Makers on story of Generative AI.
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Esta nota de NYT explica muy bien como funcionan la tecnologia detrás de #ChatGPT y cómo a veces la inteligencia artificial parece alucinar:
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Let's get real. This is why chatbots sometimes act weird and spout nonsense -- and why companies can't completely stop it:
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An interview with CS professor and ex-NHTSA adviser Missy Cummings, who says people are "over-trusting" Tesla's Autopilot, GM's Super Cruise, and other systems ( / New York Times)
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As expected, Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is generating some puzzling and inaccurate responses, reports:
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My first front page story for The Times, with the great . Pick up a copy or read here about how social media giants have reduced efforts to fight misinformation:
nytimes.com/2023/02/14/tec
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Seems like a good time to resurface this December story pointing out that chatbots hallucinate:
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Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits:
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“This tool is going to be the most powerful tool for spreading misinformation that has ever been on the internet...Crafting a new false narrative can now be done at dramatic scale, and much more frequently.” and on ChatGPT:
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A.I. software can create “videos in a matter of minutes and subscriptions start at just a few dollars a month,” Mr. Stubbs said. “That makes it easier to produce content at scale.” and absolutely nail the deepfakes problem:
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Throwing a coming-out party for the new breed of A.I., Microsoft just showed off a new search engine and web browser that include their own chatbots, and I report from Seattle:
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The reason Galactica was taken out and ChatGPT continued on it's merry way has less to do with complaints about the former than the fact that OpenAI, as a private entity, had nothing to lose, while a large publicly traded company did. An #AI version of innovators dilemma..
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Two weeks before the arrival of ChatGPT, Meta released its own bot. The reaction was very different, and I report:
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ChatGPT costs OpenAI "single-digit" cents for each chat. So the company will soon offer a $20-a-month subscription version of its online chatbot:
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Some cars are now driverless. And that can be a problem. As Waymo and Cruise seek to expand their services, the city of San Francisco is pushing back:
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"What the bots couldn’t do, however, was the research or reporting to show their strengths and weaknesses. That requires thought." looks at language bots with a journalist's eye:
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"It may seem harmless, but when you enter your email, you’re sharing a lot more than just that." on that thing we are all asked to do so often:
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Back in 2021 I did a NYTBR piece on two (good) books about AI by NYT reporters, and
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Yesterday Metz had a big Sunday Times piece that extends the themes of his book. Worth reading:
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Microsoft has extended its partnership with OpenAI, announcing an additional “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” investment in the San Francisco artificial intelligence lab behind the experimental online chatbot ChatGPT, and I report:
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"For some U.S. tech companies, the Dutch imprimatur has now become a status symbol, a kind of seal of approval they can show regulators elsewhere": tells a story of David, Goliath, and online privacy:
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"It was a blood bath and it went on for years...As concerning as the current downturn is, and as much as I empathize with the people impacted, there’s no comparison” on the tech-layoff generation gap:
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“I was flabbergasted. It seemed so genuine — so lifelike. It could read my texts and converse with me and make plans that were mutually beneficial — that would allow both of us to get ahead."
Great quote from one of Cicero's Diplomacy opponents, from 's NYTimes piece.
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REALLY want to understand what's happening with chatbots, art generators, and the rise of artificial intelligence? Read my book, "Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A.I. to Google, Facebook, and the World":
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Want to understand what's happening with chatbots, art generators, and the rise of artificial intelligence? Read my new feature on The End of the Turing Test:
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"The re-engagement of Google’s founders, at the invitation of the company’s current chief executive, Sundar Pichai, emphasized the urgency felt among many Google executives about that chatbot, ChatGPT" on the return of Page and Brin:
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“What’s happening in class is no longer going to be, ‘Here are some questions — let’s talk about it between us human beings,’” he said, but instead “it’s like, ‘What also does this alien robot think?’” looks at university life after ChatGPT:
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Some VCs and Microsoft employees have already seen GPT-4. It could be text only, like ChatGPT. Or it could include images. OpenAI has not decided which to release, and I report in our piece on Microsoft's return to the center of the tech universe:
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