A radical approach could turn the Middle East into an AI hub
In the race for AI supremacy, a new innovation hub is emerging according to a story from Reed Albergotti in Semafor: the Middle East. As the UAE and Saudi Arabia build data centers capable of training...
4 Nov 20242min
Achieving supremacy in AI
In her new book Supremacy, Parmy Olson goes behind the scenes of the AI industry’s two-year rollercoaster ride which began in November 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT. She focuses on the evolution of...
4 Nov 20244min
Compute Deserts yield winners at the world's first AI Olympiad
The Oxford Internet Institute has published a paper highlighting the uneven distribution of computing around the world, identifying three categories of countries when it comes to access to cloud AI in...
4 Nov 20242min
The people onscreen are fake, but the business value is real
According to some commentators, we’ve reached peak AI and the industry is in a huge bubble because generative AI provides no real benefits to early adopters. Here is their argument: over the last year...
4 Nov 20244min
AI is not just a feature, it's a new fabric for creation
For years, Apple has perfected the art of making technology accessible to the point of it becoming invisible—if you’re using an iPhone or a Mac, everything just works. They offer a similar vision for ...
4 Nov 20242min
If we are serious about p(doom), we should also discuss p(human)
Shortly after appearing on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast, Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI safety researcher, posted a chart on X arguing that, given the current pace of progress with AI, we will hav...
4 Nov 20245min
Open models are great but they have a big catch
The generative AI race welcomed another important contender last week when Meta released two pre-trained and fine-tuned Llama 3 language models with 8B and 70B parameters, respectively. Just in the pa...
4 Nov 20246min
Consumer AI is having a utility problem
Consumer AI devices are having a difficult time lately. With global shipments of smart home devices declining in 2023, it seemed only natural that the market would look to generative AI to breathe new...
4 Nov 20244min
