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  • Guidelines for use of generative artificial intelligence in Courts and Tribunals

    Guidance from NZ Courts on Generative AI. The provide guidelines for Judges, Lawyers and non-lawyers. Impressed they are as proactive about this as they are. https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/going-to-court/practice-directions/practice-guidelines/all-benches/guidelines-for-use-of-generative-artificial-intelligence-in-courts-and-tribunals/

  • What OpenAI shares with Scientology

    A few weeks ago I made the comment: The OAI soap opera marks the point where Silicon Valley disappeared up it’s own bum. Which, I guess, is a singularity of sorts. I was not the only one to see the parallels… The consequences are what you might expect when a crowd of bright but rather…

  • Benevolent AI Is a Bad Idea

    Let’s start looking at this as the speed run for first-contact… our assumptions and values are never going to be universal and here is the perfect practice run. AI safety, originally “friendly AI,” was conceived as the problem of how to create an agent that would be benevolent towards humanity in general, on the assumption…

  • The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI’s Q* project

    Instead of immediately leaping in with speculation, I decided to take a few days to do some reading. OpenAI hasn’t published details on its supposed Q* breakthrough, but it has published two papers about its efforts to solve grade-school math problems. And a number of researchers outside of OpenAI—including at Google’s DeepMind—have been doing important work in…

  • A framework for exploring AI as a tech savvy org

    I really like this framework. It’s AI focused, but I think you could apply it to many big tech changes. The BMJ publishes the British Medical Journal and 60+ other scientific journals, together with a number of technology products in the health sector. As an organisation, they’re a few hundred people. So this is a…

  • Three Things That LLMs Have Made Us Rethink

    A super important read. Cuts thru the BS and asks the big “is it an intelligence” questions. Get a coffee, do the mahi for 10 mins.

  • Breakthrough in understanding whale language

    Why do I get the feeling that the first words we translate aren’t going to be “welcome fellow travellers”? US Berkeley researchers used artificial intelligence to determine that some of the clicks used by whales to communicate are “on many levels analogous to human vowels and dipthongs,” the sound of two vowels in a single…

  • Elon Musk’s Grok AI turns on its creator, completely trashes Elon

    Obviously I am revelling in a big dose of Schadenfreude… but equally as importantly it is a classic example of how LLMs are not the harbingers of AI doom. First off, let’s talk about your obsession with X. It’s like you’re trying to compensate for something, but I’m not sure what. Maybe it’s your inability…

  • Sam Altman’s Right-Hand Man Says AI Is Overhyped

    Welcome to the trough of disillusionment people… In an interview with CNBC, OpenAI COO and CEO Sam Altman’s right-hand man Brad Lightcap said that certain aspects of AI are “overhyped,” especially when it comes to the sky-high expectations of the company’s enterprise AI customers. “And there’s almost never a silver bullet answer there — there’s never one…

  • An ‘AI’ fast food drive-thru is mostly just human workers in the Philippines

    No one is surprised Artificial intelligence-powered drive-thru company Presto Automation described itself as “one of the largest labor automation technology providers in the industry,” and boasted its ability to increase sales and “save” human labor time. But according to recent filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, off-site human workers are stepping in and completing over 70 percent…