A plethora of good links on AI

There’s still an overwhelming amount of material being written on AI. Here’s a few lists of some of the ones I found most interesting:

ChatGPT: ChatGPT (3 and 4) still dominate much of the discussion I see around AI. For instance:

• How ChatGPT is using plugins to gather even more data.
• Leave it to the Guardian to publish a piece on the  stupidity of AI. As with many pieces. there, much to agree and disagree about.
• I think we can all agree on this…this was bad: ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused.
• This is fun/odd:  building a dos chatgpt client in 2023. I love it.
• Related:  how you can install a chatgpt like personal AI on your own computer and run it with no internet.
• A great example of how ChatGPT is helping with research in the areas of materials. Smart.
•  Can chatgpt make meal planning easier? Answer: not really.
• A really good example of how to prompt ChatGPT in software development.
• How to use  ChatGPT to do software architecture.

Using AI: people are trying to use AI for practical purposes, as those last few links showed. Here’s some more examples:

• How Kevin Kelly is using  AI as an intern, as told to Austin Kleon.
• A good guide on  how to use AI to do practical stuff.
• How to us  Amazon AI coding assistant.

AI and imagery: not all AI is about text. There’s quite a lot going on in the visual space too. Here’s a taste:

• It seems Adobe has it’s own ai image generator.
• A good guide on Midjourney for photographers.
• This was a wild story, I thought: photographer admits prize winning image was AI generated. (See the image, above.)

AI and the problems it causes: there’s lots of risks with any new technology, and AI is no exception. Cases in point:

• A reminder of how dangerous AI can be in the wrong hands, and I am not talking criminals:  facial recognition false arrests.
• Not to mention how bad it could be with horrible prompts! 
• Or if racists and  white supremacists build their own.
• Then there are basic problems, like  the dangers of highly centralized AI. Just a different form of danger.
• I agree with this:  AI is too important to leave to Microsoft and Google and the like.
• We need more companies to develop a code of  ethics, as IBM has done.
• More regulation is required. Looks like Europe is going to deliver it, based on this: OpenAIs hunger for data is coming back to bite it.

Last but not least: 

• Yawn: Musk supposed has a new AI company.
• Paul Krugman on how AI will affect the economy. Less than you think, he argues.
• A good piece on  sentence word embeddings which kinda shows  how LLM works.
• Looks like  Microsoft is getting in the chip game to compete with   Nvidia.
• What American workers think of  artificial intelligence at work.
• When it comes to AI, here’s what Google is up to.
• Here’s a really good visual analysis of the datasets Google’s G4 is using.
• I read this skeptically:  Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4.
• Is OpenAI stalled? Read  this and this and decide for yourself.
• Finally:  Who owns a song created by AI?