Irony Alert: LLM paper contains plagiarized material. A Turkish engineer was asked to review a deep learning paper and discovered his own writing in it. 💡"When Çavuşoğlu first skimmed through the other paper, he came across some sections containing an uncanny resemblance to his own ideas. 'I thought,
Wow, it has been a long wait! However, we think you will find the wait worth it. In addition to our usual emerging technology intellectual hub interviews, we have several new series. The content is just coming out of our pores, friends. Season 4 finally launches today with the first
The latest OAI demo was like a late-night sex product infomercial. If you follow my Linked In News Feed, you'll have seen a lot of conversations about ChatGPT 4o, which I have been calling ChatGPT4 ShowMeYourOFace, making the Mike Judge (creator of Silicon Valley and Office Space) reference
confusing and stage-y demo with no testing, research, or safety documentation The big news on 4o (which isn’t the long awaited GPT5) demonstrated looking and emotional speaking capabilities. I call out the concerns and troubles with that highly theatrical and curated demo here. I will add one more concern
You've been hearing a lot about hallucinations. Some people call them hallucinations or confabulations, but let's call them out for what they are. Bad results. Sometimes, terrible results. Calling it a hallucination is another way of personifying and using "anthropomorphic" language to persuade investors
In a sea of overhyped car-salesmen technology pseudo-innovation, Boston Dynamics may be the most underhyped research firm doing the most interesting and useful automation research. They aren’t trying to sell to a populist market so you won’t hear about them unless you are looking. Check it out. Google
AI hangover The AI party is over and the startup set has a hangover. The cost of running an AI system is in the billions. While the iPhone only cost 100 million to launch, AI start ups have to raise close to $2 billion and that has proven not to
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction." --EF Schumacher, Small is Beautiful Lately, our newsletters have been sent out with strange formatting errors. We are aware
Some somewhat interesting potentials concerning machine learning and design can be derived from training models on eeg and other scan results performed on humans engaging in aesthetic experiences. Neuroaesthetics is a popular topic among some interface design circles. I am not immune to this. I have taught workshops in neuroscience
Innovation has been co-opted and no longer means what we think it does. (If you hear Inigo Montoya in your head as you read this, we should hang out and have a drink or a cuppa tea. You are my kind of people.) A young, brilliant teen woman described this