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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.

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

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

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

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

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