Generative AI Weekly - August 1st, 2024
New features, launches, and books - with a healthy dose of skepticism.
This week:
- How to deal with your AI-obsessed co-worker.
- Arvind Narayanan's AI Snake Oil Newsletter. Nicely balanced - I've pre-ordered the book.
- On new books - I am starting Why Machines Learn - which so far is very fun.
- Most people don’t think GenAI has improved their productivity. Direct link to the study from Upwork here.
- "I’m optimistic, paradoxically, because I don’t think A.I. is going to be as powerful as many of its evangelists think it will be." - David Brooks on NYT
- Meta launches the "Segment Anything Model 2" - enabling quick selection of objects in videos and images.
- ChatGPT launches "advanced voice" - Ethan Mollick’s writeup on that + Siri AI here.
- And for something I’d love to understand this week - Gary Marcus on neurosymbolic AI.