Why do schools and universities want to purchase AI? Roaring language from OpenAI—they’re planning to invest a whopping 50 million under the banner NextGenAI in 15 American universities! To put that in context, they’re valued at 300 billion, so it’s only about 0.02 percent of their market value. What OpenAI gets in return is clear […]
Netflix’s Ponzi scheme, and stop using American tech platforms is possible – Week 9’s AI news
Are you still watching? What a piece in n+1 on Netflix’s ponzi scheme of attention that describes how Netflix has pivoted from distributor of content to creator of it, and the effect thereof on the quality of movies. According to the relentless author, Netflix is ”staffed by unsophisticated executives who have no plan for their […]
Who owns your cloned AI voice – Week 8’s AI news
Well, I could say for the next few months (or even years?) that it’s been one of those weeks, but here goes! Who owns your cloned AI voice? This powerful piece in MIT Technology Review – especially for me, daughter of a father who died of ALS – talks about people who, due to a […]
Scarlett vs. Deepfakes, Math In or Out of the Classroom, and Online Dating – Week 7’s AI News
Well, this week was… something else. Last week I didn’t put together a proper news overview because I went skiing, and while I was up in the mountains I’d occasionally check the news on BlueSky – and it wasn’t looking very happy. Elon Musk claimed all sorts of data and systems for himself, all development […]
Week 6’s AI News
Ok, full disclosure—I was on vacation this week! But now that I’ve got a few hundred subscribers, I obviously need to make sure there’s some content, right? So before I left, I set aside some timeless pieces about AI. Algorithmic Agnotology I came across the term “algorithmic agnotology” on BlueSky and had to look it […]
