Meta releases their Llama AI model as open source: what should we think of that?
Llama 3.1 outperforms OpenAI and other rivals on certain benchmarks. Now, Mark Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant to surpass ChatGPT’s usage in the coming m...
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AI in the physical world
I’ve always been straddling the physical and the digital – thinking of how the two worlds interact and complement each other, and what it means for ...
Now that genAI remembers so well, I’d like a bit of forgetfulness
When I started using genAI tools like ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey), the tools could not remember what was said earlier in the thread of a conversation. Of cou...
What’s the fascination with humanoid robots?
I was reading an interesting article on the fusion of robots and LLMs (see link below). One concept in the article that caught my attention was ’embodied ...
Is Autopilot as smart as a horse? (another BASAAP story)
There was an article in the Verge, discussing a recent study by the NHTSA finding Tesla’s poorly designed driver-assist features have been linked to hundreds of...
What do you think of Humane’s AI-powered wearable?
It’s a gadget designed for interacting with large language models, not apps, and for talking instead of typing. But it’s not yet entirely clear what you’re supp...
Frak you, ChatGPT – good writing is still good writing
Humans are really good at coming up with better ways to create things. And humans are also very good at pointing to anything new as the end of the world as they...
Will adding AI to note-taking apps make us better thinkers?
Casey Newton from The Verge has an interesting ‘state of note-taking apps’ article. Prompted by the arrival of generative AI, he looks back at his u...
Does the generation of AI have to be so grim?
How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions. Source: Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human – The Verge Back in 20...
Fascinated by fake news: AI, content, and being human
All the hubbub around fake news and the presidential elections got me thinking of AIs; how we find, review, and share content (a long term topic for me); how hu...