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Multiple news outlets, including The Information, Bloomberg, and Reuters [see sources] are reporting an "end of scaling" for the current AI paradigm. In this episode we look into these articles, as well as a wide variety of economic forecasting, empirical analysis, and technical papers to understand the validity, and impact of these reports. We also use this as an opportunity to contextualize the realized versus promised fruits of "AI".(00:23) - Hot off the press(01:49) - The end of

October 2024 saw a National Security Memorandum and US framework for using AI in national security contexts. We go through the content so you don't have to, pull out the important bits, and summarize our main takeaways.(00:48) - The memorandum(06:28) - What the press is saying (10:39) - What's in the text (13:48) - Potential harms (17:32) - Miscellaneous notable stuff (31:11) - What's the US governments take on AI? (45:45) - The civil side - comments on reporting (49:31) - The

Frontier developers continue their war on sane versioning schema to bring us Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New), along with "computer use" capabilities. We discuss not only the new model, but also why Anthropic may have released this model and tool combination now.(00:00) - Intro(00:22) - Hot off the press (05:03) - Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New) Two 'o' 3000 (09:23) - Breaking down "computer use" (13:16) - Our understanding (16:03) - Diverging business models (32:07) - Why has Anthropic chosen this

Brace yourselves, winter is coming for OpenAI - atleast, that's what we think. In this episode we look at OpenAI's recent massive funding round and ask "why would anyone want to fund a company that is set to lose net 5 billion USD for 2024?" We scrape through a whole lot of muck to find the meaningful signals in all this news, and there is a lot of it, so get ready!(00:00) - Intro(00:28) - Hot off the press (02:43) - Why listen? (06:07) - Why might VCs invest? (15:52) - What are people

The Open Source AI Definition is out after years of drafting, will it reestablish brand meaning for the “Open Source” term? Also, the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry are heavily tied to AI; we scrutinize not only this year's prizes, but also Nobel Prizes as a concept. (00:00) - Intro (00:30) - Hot off the press (03:45) - Open Source AI background (10:30) - Definitions and changes in RC1 (18:36) - “Business source” (22:17) - Parallels with legislation (26:22) - Impacts of

Why is Mark Ruffalo talking about SB1047, and what is it anyway? Tune in for our thoughts on the now vetoed California legislation that had Big Tech scared.(00:00) - Intro(00:31) - Updates from a relatively slow week (03:32) - Disclaimer: SB1047 vetoed during recording (still worth a listen) (05:24) - What is SB1047 (12:30) - Definitions (17:18) - Understanding the bill (28:42) - What are the players saying about it? (46:44) - Addressing critiques (55:59) - Open Source (01:02:36)

OpenAI's new model is out, and we are going to have to rake through a lot of muck to get the value out of this one!⚠ Opt out of LinkedIn's GenAI scraping ➡️ https://lnkd.in/epziUeTi (00:00) - Intro (00:25) - Other recent news (02:57) - Hot off the press (03:58) - Why might someone care? (04:52) - What is it? (06:49) - How is it being sold? (10:45) - How do they explain it, technically? (27:09) - Reflection AI Drama (40:19) - Why do we care? (46:39) - Scraping away the muck Note: at