Working out AI questions
We don't know what generative AI will be (or what will happen next week), but we're starting to work out what questions to ask
1 Maj 202338min
Buzzfeed News, Reddit and OpenAI
Buzzfeed News dies just as Reddit and Stack Overflow say they'll charge LLMs to train on their data. Who owns content and how does distribution work in an LLM age? Are those the right questions? What ...
24 Apr 202334min
Metaverse and crypto - beyond the BS
Crypto crashed, metaverse was silly, and now we know that generative AI is the future of everything. Right? Well, sort of. But though the hype has moved on, the reasons web3 and VR were interesting ha...
16 Apr 202338min
AI, copyright and collective knowledge
If you spend an hour typing prompts into MidJourney, who owns the result? There are easy answers to this, but they're probably wrong - these are new questions with new puzzles, much like radio, photog...
2 Apr 202329min
GPT-4 is here, now what?
Generative machine learning is moving so fast it's impossible to keep up. What questions can we ask about GPT4, before everything changes again next week?
27 Mars 202339min
The right questions to ask about TikTok
The 'ban it' snowball is getting bigger and bigger, but what problem are we solving - privacy, or propaganda? How does this scale to all the other Chinese apps? And meanwhile, how well do we pay atten...
20 Mars 202340min
Amazon's $40B advertising business
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, o...
12 Mars 202331min
ChatGPT versus Google
Microsoft thinks (or says) that Generative ML will reset the search market, unlocking Google's market share and collapsing those 60% operating margins. Really? What would that mean?
12 Feb 202334min
