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February 2024

January 2024

Matthew Lynley on AI in the enterprise, open source models and the data stack
The journalist-turned-data-analyst-turned-writer-of-Supervised chatted with me about his perspective as a daily user of sophisticated AI tools and…
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What I learned from the creators of The Pile, one of the world's largest AI training datasets
Hint: If you think you understand all the nuances and complexities, you don't
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Reporting notes from the AI trenches: Jan 1-7
The NYT lawsuit against Microsoft/OpenAI for copyright infringement; a voice cloning AI startup opening up to political ads; and what else I'm digging…
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December 2023

The quest for AGI: Building idols, not a God
I don’t believe that those hell-bent on a quest to build AGI — Artificial General Intelligence — are trying to create a new God. I think they are really…
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TG-AI-F! Notes and links from the week in AI
'Twas the weekend before Christmas, and the AI world was still stirring...
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2024: An AI 'hot mess'? Chatting with Nathan Lambert
As the New Year approaches, I spoke with the former Hugging Face and current AI2 researcher on AI uncertainty, open vs. closed models, and the potential…
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Reporting notes from the AI trenches, 2023 edition
It was 12 months of hype and hope, fear and FOMO, thoughts and trends. I learned a lot and was humbled even more.
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I interviewed the founder of Civitai, an AI platform accused of deepfakes and porn. It highlighted the challenges of open source AI.
Civitai is an example of a startup walking a fine line between the promise of open source generative AI and the downsides of NSFW content at scale
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