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September 14, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- Maybe calling it "Apple Intelligence" backfired...
- Audible recruits voice actors to train synthetic voices for audiobook.
- Yuval Noah Harari is back with a new book about AI.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- Gartner publishes a Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what M&S and Volkswagen are doing with AI.
- Prompting
- How to interact with OpenAI o1.
- The Tools of the Trade
- One year later, finally, AP Workflow has a web front end!
- The Way We Work Now
- How are creatives using Midjourney professionally?
- How Do You Feel?
- A WSJ bestseller author and first OpenAI prompt engineer is convinced that AI will soon be able to write good novels.
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September 2, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- The synthetic scientist developed by Sakana AI is not as capable as it sounds.
- Klarna is ready to cut its workforce in half.
- The UK Department for Education wants AI to help teachers
- A Chart to Look Smart
- The cost of LLMs is cratering to zero. Is it enough to transform the economy?
- The Tools of the Trade
- The Way We Work Now
- Synthetic videos will be the norm for the new generation.
- How Do You Feel?
- Philippines’ citizens are bracing for the impact of AI on their call center jobs.
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August 25, 2024
- Editorial
- Where do we go from here?
- The Tools of the Trade
- Now you can chat with your financial documents for free, in private.
- A multi-platform universal chat app for centralized and local LLMs.
- The Way We Work Now
- Yet another artist uses generative AI for his music videos.
- How Do You Feel?
- Is generative AI ready to replace product image shooting?
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August 17, 2024
- Editorial
- The Tools of the Trade
- Build your own Midjourney
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July 28, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- The threat of AI providers driven by ad revenue.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- Research org connected to OpenAI discloses key findings from a 3-year study related to UBI.
- The Tools of the Trade
- What Business and IT leaders need to know about LLaMA 3.1
- Prompting
- Jailbreak prompts for LLaMA 3.1 is already available.
- How Do You Feel?
- Voice and motion-capture actors in the game industry go on strike over AI.
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July 21, 2024
- Editorial
- What are AI models good for?
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- With AI, every knowledge worker will write software. But will they want to?
- The AI bubble might burst, says Sequoia, but some of its logic is faulty.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- The future of AI depends on synthetic data. Synthetic data might depend on a billion synthetic personas.
- The Tools of the Trade
- AP Workflow 10.0 for ComfyUI
- AP Plot 1.0 for ComfyUI
- How Do You Feel?
- Tate Modern is pro-AI and it shows it with a new exhibition.
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July 14, 2024
- A Chart to Look Smart
- New research suggests that LLMs are way more formulaic than we thought.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what Amazon is doing with AI.
- Prompting
- A different way to think about prompting.
- The Tools of the Trade
- Perhaps GPT-4o is not the best LLM on the market anymore.
- How Do You Feel?
- Our relationship with AI won't be rational.
- The Australian Association of Voice Actors (AAVA) is starting to get nervous.
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July 7, 2024
- Editorial
- Job displacement can happen even without AI directly taking over the task.
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- Jeremy Howard on the creative limits of LLMs and their role in augmenting humans in research.
- Will AI turn human expertise akin to what we share today in YouTube videos?
- When fear of job displacement by AI turns into a conspiracy theory.
- Prompting
- Perhaps we don't need LLM fine-tuning after all.
- The Tools of the Trade
- Generative AI music and business models.
- Chrome now has its own LLM. You can use it via an API.
- How Do You Feel?
- "The Last Screenwriter", the movie written by GPT-4o, is now out and free to watch.
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June 30, 2024
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- Anthropic Chief of Staff's radical view on the impact of AI on jobs.
- A startup shows how much worse hiring is going to get because of AI.
- What's AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
- Learn what McDonald's, Formula 1, NBC, NHS, and St James’s Place Wealth Management are doing with AI.
- The Way We Work Now
- Meta unlocked AI clones for Instagram influencers.
- Putting Lipstick on a Pig
- Politicians finally figured out that they could use AI to look brighter than they are.
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June 23, 2024
- PSA
- The new episode of Reality Distortion Fields is all about Apple Intelligence.
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- Mira Murati, OpenAI CTO, has a rather puzzling view about the impact of AI on jobs.
- At least one reputable lawyer believes that Claude 3 can act as a Supreme Court Justice.
- A Chart to Look Smart
- New IMF report highlights "profound concerns about massive labour disruptions"
- New Citigroup report on AI in Finance.
- OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere projected annualized revenue.
- How Do You Feel?
- Generative AI is quickly becoming akin to sex in at least one dimension.
- Journalists are starting to question the licensing deals between their publishers and OpenAI.
- Is the interaction with AI companions like Character.ai turning into an addiction?
