Meta Goes After OpenAI With Open Coding AI

Plus, a jailbroken Nest that talks to dead celebs shows the future of AI devices

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Nathaniel Whittemore
August 18, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Friday August 18, 2023

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. A State Regulators’ Coalition on AI

  • 4. Turns Out AI Is Really Good at Recycling

  • 3. Does This Jailbroken Nest Show the Future of AI Devices?

  • 2. Companies Fear Publish Backlash for Using AI

  • 1. Meta’s Latest Strategy to Beat OpenAI

5. A State Regulators’ Coalition on AI

Dismayed by slow progress in Congress, a task force comprised of lawmakers from five different states has assembled to develop state-level regulation around AI with shared language across states.

4. Turns Out AI Is Really Good at Recycling

The US is really bad at recycling. A big part of it is that recycling is difficult to sort. As it turns out, however, AI is really, really good at sorting recycling. One recycling director even called it a “game changer.” Sorty McSortface is the future, my friends.

3. Does This Jailbroken Nest Show the Future of AI Devices?

Imagine that your Nest or other smart home device could talk to you like a personal assistant, relaying your messages, giving you information about who needs what from you, or even recruiting a long-dead cultural icon to pop in for a quick chat.

2. Companies Fear Publish Backlash for Using AI

Historically, companies viewed integration of new technology as brand accretive. Consumers viewed companies on the cutting edge as better suited to solving their problems. According to WSJ reporting, the rise of generative AI has flipped that paradigm, with companies scarred of public backlash for using the technology.

Companies Increasingly Fear Backlash Over Their AI Work

Until now businesses have assumed that leveraging cutting-edge technology was inherently a good thing. That’s no longer the case.

www.wsj.com/articles/companies-increasingly-fear-backlash-over-their-ai-work-53aff47c

1. Meta’s Latest Strategy to Beat OpenAI

It’s not easy having Zuck nipping at your heels. Just ask Sam Altman. Meta’s open source(ish) Llama model (now complete with commercial license) has changed company’s calculus on whether to work with third party AI providers, and now The Information is reporting that Meta is about to announce an open competitor to the OpenAI code-generation AI that underpins tools like Microsoft’s CoPilot.

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