Tag: commercial interests

  • Wired: AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-personal-assistants-manipulation-engines/ Source: Wired Title: AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines Feedly Summary: Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the emergence of personal AI agents and the risks they pose in terms of cognitive control and manipulation. It emphasizes the dangers…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is AI progress slowing down?

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is AI progress slowing down? Feedly Summary: Is AI progress slowing down? This piece by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor is the single most insightful essay about AI and LLMs I’ve seen in a long time. It’s long and worth reading every inch of it – it…

  • The Register: Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/07/elon_election_spending/ Source: The Register Title: Elon Musk tops US political donor list with $270M+ for Team Trump Feedly Summary: Plus, xAI scores another $6B to fuel Musk’s war on OpenAI Elon Musk gave more than $270 million to political groups supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and others on the American right, according…

  • Hacker News: The OSI lacks competence to define Open Source AI

    Source URL: https://samjohnston.org/2024/10/15/the-osi-lacks-competence-to-define-open-source-ai/ Source: Hacker News Title: The OSI lacks competence to define Open Source AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text critiques the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for its handling of the proposed Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), arguing that the OSI’s approach threatens the principles of open source…

  • Wired: OpenAI Threatens Bans as Users Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/openai-threatens-bans-for-probing-new-ai-models-reasoning-process/ Source: Wired Title: OpenAI Threatens Bans as Users Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models Feedly Summary: If you try to figure out how OpenAI’s o1 models solve problems, you might get a nastygram. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s latest AI model, “o1,” which is designed to show reasoning…