Weekly Link Roundup
Get along y'all digital doggies...
'Disrespectful and Dangerous': Video Game Writers, Actors Blast Microsoft for Xbox AI Tools: Microsoft is making more AIncerned that the Xbox AI push will lead to more job losses: You knew these developments were coming but it’s a bad week to drop this news with layoffs still roiling the industry.
New study validates the business value and opportunity of AI: These data points will be in every person’s slide deck who will be going to their boss asking for funds for their AI pilot.
71% of respondents say their companies are already using AI
92% of AI deployments are taking 12 months or less
Organizations are realizing a return on their AI investments within 14 months
For every $1 a company invests in AI, it is realizing an average return of $3.5X
52% report that a lack of skilled workers is their biggest barrier to implement and scale AI
Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices: This is classic: “Internet service providers and their lobby groups are fighting a US plan to prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services. In particular, ISPs want the Federal Communications Commission to drop the plan's proposal to require that prices charged to consumers be non-discriminatory.”
Google is bringing its AI-powered search to more than 120 new countries and territories: SGE (search generative experience) will be interesting…could be powerful or it could mean we get to the Ouroboros Point faster (where something like SGE just means that LLMs are eating their own data).
I’m looking at these two headlines:
Can Chatbots Help You Build a Bioweapon? and
Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them? ..and my conclusion is “ready” isn’t a consideration when this technology has been released and we’re still trying to figure out how to put guardrails on it. This is the singularity kind of threshold - there is no “getting ready”, there is only response time.
The Humane AI Pin is a bizarre cross between Google Glass and a pager: Agree. Nothing to add, I just don’t get it.
GitHub teases Copilot enterprise plan that lets companies customize for their codebase: Faster tools help build faster tools faster. Change is accelerating but the acceleration is also accelerating.
Exclusive: IBM debuts $500 million enterprise AI venture fund: I like this approach but having been involved in planning something similar, I wonder about how they’ll firewall what the funded companies are working on from what the rest of IBM is working on…just thinking about IP bleed.
Andreessen Horowitz would like everyone to stop talking about AI's copyright issues, please: It's awesome when they say the quiet part out loud: "The bottom line is this," the firm, known as a16z, wrote. "Imposing the cost of actual or potential copyright liability on the creators of AI models will either kill or significantly hamper their development." I read that as, compensating people fairly for the content they own the copyright for and obeying current law will just slow us down. Breathtaking sometimes. See also: Here’s Why AI Companies Think They Can Use Photographers’ Work Without Compensation
An AI just negotiated a contract for the first time ever — and no human was involved: The more rule-based your environment is, the easier it will be for AI to disrupt it.
Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event: Solid rundown.