$1B for Ive and Altman's AI phone?

Plus Karpathy reframes LLMs

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Nathaniel Whittemore
September 29, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Friday September 29, 2023

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. Is the Metaverse Back on the Menu?

  • 4. Karpathy Reframes LLMs

  • 3. Google Allows Publishers to Turn Off AI Training

  • 2. Medium Hints at Coordinated Effort to Block AI Crawlers

  • 1. $1B for Ive and Altman’s AI Phone?

/imagine prompt: an artificial intelligence phone (somehow we don’t think this is what Jony Ive and Sam Altman will design)

5. Is the Metaverse Back on the Menu?

After being thoroughly ridiculed and written off last year, a new fully VR interview between Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Fridman has people reconsidering their metaverse stances.

4. Karpathy Reframes LLMs

We’re all of us still trying to understand this new AI world we’re living in. OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy has recently argued that we shouldn’t be thinking about LLMs as just chatbots, but as the kernel of an entirely new operating system.

3. Google Allows Publishers to Turn Off AI Training

Google is giving publishers more control over how their data is used. Thanks to a new update, publishers can allow Google to crawl their site for the purposes of indexing for search, while blocking their content from being scraped and used for AI training.

2. Medium Hints at Coordinated Effort to Block AI Crawlers

Writing host Medium has opted in to block ChatGPT’s web crawler, but they’re also hinting that a broader coalition against generative AI may be forming. Medium’s CEO has said “We are actively recruiting for a coalition of other platforms to help figure out the future of fair use in the age of AI.”

Medium hints at a nascent media coalition to block AI crawlers | TechCrunch

Medium says it will disallow AI scrapers like GPTBot, but more importantly it says a larger effort to do so at scale is underway.

techcrunch.com/2023/09/28/medium-hints-at-a-nascent-media-coalition-to-block-ai-crawlers

1. $1B for Ive and Altman’s AI Phone?

The story first reported by The Information that Sam Altman was talking with iPod and iPhone designer Jony Ive has picked up. New reports are that the duo are seeking $1B in funding for the new project (from Softbank’s Masayoshi Son). Some are even calling it the beginning of the AI phone wars.

BONUS: Are AI partners good for marriages?

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