#85: Navigating (and paying) for AI

💎 Word gems

How to navigate the AI apocalypse as a sane person (The Intrinsic Perspective / Erik Hoel)

This is a nice follow-up to what I wrote about last week.

In fact, arguably ChatGPT is already more general in its intelligence than any human alive (just go ask it about anything you might look up on Wikipedia and it’ll often get a big part of the answer right, and it’s not even connected to the internet). That’s why they’re using this type of model for search. However, in terms of actual intelligence, it gets specifics wrong and hallucinates and is unreliable and prone to banality and filler. But say all that stuff begins to fall away and it gets smarter each new edition, as these models have so far—then you have something both more general and more intelligent.

Who’s actually getting rich off of AI? (Platformer via The Verge  / Casey Newton)

I’ve been wondering where the value will accrue with language models. This asks the exact same question and some of the first products paying for OpenAI’s APIs.

For the moment, AI products on the market are essentially just white-labeled versions of ChatGPT. As of this week, OpenAI is making it available to other companies through an API. For $0.002 for about 750 words of output, any company can resell ChatGPT in their own app.

💩 Cool shit

MarioGPT - Generate a Super Mario Bros level. This is a fun demo showing how large language models can output more than just chat interfaces.

3D eye tracking with webcam - It’s a pretty cool optical illusion. I just don’t want sites needing to access my camera.

Falling Alice - Fall down the rabbit hole.

1 dataset. 100 visualizations - What the title says. It’s a a fantastic example of how different data viz changes how we interpret the data.

Date your cat - Have a conversation with your cat. Not going to lie. This is creepy.

2023 MAD (ML/AI/Data) Landscape - Get a snapshot of all the companies already existing in the AI landscape

Wood Wide Web - A fascinating project where you can explore a wooded landscape and plant seeds by writing poetry.

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