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Recent Publications (Page 29)
It's Time for ChatGPT to Grow Up
ChatGPT is about to celebrate its first birthday. It’s time for it to graduate from an experiment into a true product.
Why Nutcrackers Remember and GPT Doesn't
A new paper argues for analyzing AI systems like GPT through a "teleological" lens focused on the specific problem they were optimized to solve during training. 7 min read
Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything
Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints, she claims, bring about effects as well, and they enable the emergence of coherence.
Why Generative AI Transparency Matters
New research from the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models shows that foundation models are largely mysterious.
Speak Human To Me
A research review of A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think by Caleb Everett.
Jai Vipra: Computational Power & AI
Jai Vipra is a research fellow at the AI Now Institute where she focuses on competition issues in frontier AI models. She recently published the report Computational Power and AI which focuses on compute as a core dependency in building large-scale AI.
Does Generative AI Need a New Business Model?
Here’s the issue: the current business model doesn’t make sense because increasing usage conflicts with profits.
The Intimacy Economy
Intimacy with technology has been the territory of science fiction. What happens if we are able to live those stories ourselves?
Dystope and Hope: The Dual Servings of an AI Insider
A research review of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma. by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar.
Wendy Wong: We, the Data, and Human Rights
An interview with University of British Columbia professor, Wendy Wong, about her book We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age.
Apple & Edge AI
Apple isn’t being left behind in generative AI—it’s playing a different game. While every other tech company is spending billions on inference compute—Apple is being paid for it.