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Weekend Links: Foundational models, incumbents head-start, and WWII desinformation

Open vs. Closed Models What are the risks of open foundation models? The answer depends on how you frame the question. Straight off the bat, it's not precise enough: Today, we are releasing a paper on the societal impact of open foundation models. We make three main contributions.

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Weekend links: New pressure on media, and why tech can't be blamed for everything

It's probably a sign of the times that three, maybe four, of this week's links are about the media industry and the new challenges that generative AI will mean to media businesses. I have a lot of thoughts around this, but for now I'll

Weekend link: Blameless postmortens

Why You've Never Been In a Plane Crash is about aviation safety – but the approach to safety is applicable in many other areas as well. It’s often much more productive to ask why than to ask who. In some industries, this is called a “blameless postmortem,” and

Weekend links: We humans do have agency over technology

The Lazy Tyranny of the Wait Calculation – Given the current pace in AI innovation, is it better to start building your new product/service with AI today, or is it better to wait? Ethan Mollick frames this question in an interesting way. How is AI changing gymnastics – I'm

Weekend links: Is 2024 the year of the smart agents?

I've heard the talk about "smart, autonomous agents" on and off for years in my work as a reporter covering IT. Over the last few months more often again, and this time with a plausible road towards software that actually understand what the problem the user

Linkblog like it is 2024

First linkblog of 2024. The start of the year has been busy, so just two things I read over the last week that I think are worth recommending to you: Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raisesof Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election

Weekend link: Schneier on AI and trust

Just one link this week, but that's okay since it's a really good one: This is a transcript of a talk Bruce Schneier gave at Harvard Kennedy School. In it, he argues that our fears of AI really is made worse by not making a distinction

Weekend links: iA Writer's take on AI – and some about AI regulation

Another week, another round of links. And as usual, many of the about AI in on way or another. Supporting generative AI without adding a chat window As someone who have made a living out of writing for well over 20 years, I want to start with the latest release

Weekend links: AI, cryptography, price

It's been one of the busiest week of the year for me, so just two links this weekend. They might not seem related, but I think they are: They are both about the cost of using digital tools and services. Sometimes they are hidden. Sometimes the prices asked

Weekend links: An open LLM in Swedish, AI and democracy, and some thoughts on climate change

Some AI links this week as well, but none about what's going on at OpenAI over the weekend. There is already an abundance of those online. GPT-SW3 | AI Sweden AI Sweden releases GPT-SW3, the first LLM for Swedish and other Nordic languages, with an open license. Ten Ways