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A collection of 37 issues

A hangover is due

First reported in ‘The Information’ but you need a subscription. TechCrunch has coverage though. But it seems OpenAI has created a new foundation team as its newer models are not improving as expected: “In other words, the rate of improvement seems to be slowing down. In fact, Orion might not

Don’t believe everything you see online…

The ability to validate information and critical thinking are going to become so important in the coming years, not just in business: “Over the remainder of the night, sleuths gradually teased out the culprit: a website based in Pakistan that consists solely of listings for Halloween events, some real and

You have to own it

“LinkedIn, however, has taken its denial of responsibility a step further: it will hold users responsible for sharing any policy-violating misinformation created by its own AI tools.” LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that’s your problemArtificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thingThe RegisterThomas Claburn At first

AI gets carried away

If you’ve ever had to introduce processes into an SME or high growth business, you’ll know it’s never universally embraced with joy. Change control, asset management, risk registers etc. “Why? We’re doing fine” When it all goes wrong - that’s a great learning moment. Not

Another 'Big Short'

This is a long read, but encapsulates my fears. It’s always about the money. The Subprime AI CrisisNone of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or “hating,” but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current

Tick, tick, tick...

Someone tricked ChatGPT into giving them instructions on how to build a homemade fertiliser bomb. Brill. Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs | TechCrunchAn explosives expert told TechCrunch that the ChatGPT output could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to

LLM's are crap

In security you can’t block and ban everything people do. That would be silly. So you need to also rely on education and awareness. A German Journalist - I’m not going to name him for reasons which will become obvious - was interested in how his work was

Show me the other money

This is a long but good read. Zitron really researched this. How Does OpenAI Survive?Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and

Can it forget?

Interesting. This might be why a lot of tools aren’t currently being released in the EU? Pesky ‘Right to be forgotten/erasure’ eh? Making AI models ‘forget’ undesirable data hurts their performance | TechCrunchA new study finds that making generative AI models ‘forget’ information hurts their performance on other tasks,

Model collapse again

Ah ‘Model Collapse’ is rearing its head again. So the problem still stands. I haven’t seen anything recently on ‘Temporal Degradation’ - but they keep releasing new versions. ‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail | TechCrunchIf the models continue eating each other’s data, perhaps