Here’s the kitchen sink for July 26, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!

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Here is the kitchen sink for July 26, 2024 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

OpenAI Touts New AI Safety Research. Critics Say It’s a Good Step, but Not Enough: Certainly not enough for senators. Or employees.

The Rise of Techno-Journalists: Addressing Plagiarism, Patchwriting, and Excessive Aggregation in the Era of LLMs: “Excessive aggregation”?!? Is once a week “excessive”? Asking for a friend, Rob Robinson. 😉 Jokes aside, it’s a very interesting article of the pros and cons of AI/LLM aided journalism.

Bill Gates on the Next ‘Big Frontier’ of Generative AI: Programming Metacognition Strategies into ChatGPT: Ralph Losey keeps introducing me to terms I don’t know, like “metacognition”. His latest article on the EDRM blog points out how Bill Gates considers that to be the “next frontier”. Good enough for me to want to know what it is!

Falcon Update Fallout: Legal and Business Repercussions: Terrific recap by Rob Robinson of last week’s CrowdStrike update incident. As Rob notes: “An estimated 8.5 million Windows devices were affected, representing less than one percent of all Windows machines. However, this small percentage belied the outsized impact, as many of these devices belonged to critical infrastructure and major corporations.”

SearchGPT Prototype: Not really an article, but OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a prototype of new search features “designed to combine the strength of our AI models with information from the web to give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.” They are launching to a small group of users and publishers to get feedback, and you can sign up here for the waitlist if you want to try it. I did – will report on it if I get access.

Microsoft Copilot vs. Copilot Pro: Is the subscription fee worth it?: Terrific breakdown on what you get with regular Copilot vs. Copilot Pro and when you should consider forking over the money for Pro.

The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B: I love the subtitle to this story: “’Open source AI is the path forward,’ says Mark Zuckerberg, misusing the term.” Nonetheless, Meta is positioning 405B among the likes of the industry’s top AI models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Claude’s 3.5 Sonnet, and Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and provides stats to back it up. We’ll see, but intriguing.

A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles With Math: AI chatbots struggle with math?!? That doesn’t add up! 😀

TRU Trends: Law Firms Made Significant Shifts in June: TRU Staffing does a great job keeping up with staffing trends in eDiscovery and shares those monthly, which they do on the ACEDS blog. Some very interesting trends for June, including that the best way to break into corporate for eDiscovery is via a contract role.

Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”: Another rich person saying their AI is (or will be) the best. Intriguing that Musk is apparently side-stepping power issues by installing a fleet of 14 VoltaGrid natural gas generators that provide supplementary power to the Memphis computer cluster while his company works out an agreement with the local power utility. To be powerful, you need power! 😉

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for July 26, 2024! Back next week with another edition!

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