AI Buzz at BuzzFeed, AI-generated Writing on Medium, How AI Will Change Everything, and The End of AI Art?
AI Bytes: Volume CI, Issue #7
READING
III. BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content
BuzzFeed Inc. has announced its intention to use AI technology from OpenAI to enhance its quizzes and personalize content for its audiences, with CEO Jonah Peretti expecting AI to assist the creative process while humans provide ideas and “cultural currency”. The move has caused some concern among staff, but Peretti has assured them that AI will not be used to reduce the workforce or produce low-quality content.
II. University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master’s Degree in A.I.
The University of Texas at Austin has announced a large-scale, low-cost online Master of Science degree program in artificial intelligence, the first of its kind among elite computing schools. The program is intended to make A.I. education more affordable and will include advanced courses in machine learning, A.I. applications in health, and natural language processing. The university plans to open applications for the program this June, with the aim of enrolling more than 2,000 students per year.
I. How we’re approaching AI-generated writing on Medium
After receiving hundreds of comments and emails expressing a wide range of perspectives on AI-generated writing, Medium is now requiring any story created with AI assistance be clearly labeled as such. The new rule is an effort to promote transparency and set reader expectations while staying open to the possible uses of AI.
LISTENING
II. How AI Could Change Apple and Google, Writing and Music, and Everything Else
Ben Thompson, author of the Stratechery newsletter and podcast, predicted that 2022 would be the year of AI emergence, and Ben and Derek discuss ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, the state of generative AI, and how the biggest tech companies will use these new tools.
I. Alexandr Wang — A Primer on AI
In this episode, Alexandr Wang — the CEO and founder of Scale AI — discusses the role of AI and data in geopolitics and foreign policy, as well as the current state of digital arms race, the importance of talent when scaling AI, the process of creating AI models, the growing trend of data becoming more valuable than code, principles of building data gathering engines, the state of technology for annotating data, Scale’s product lineup, how Scale fills the gap in producing better and cleaner data, and the S curve of acceleration for AI.
WATCHING
I. The end of AI art?
AI ART OF THE WEEK
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AI Tool Tracker
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