Okay, There Are AI Robots Everywhere Now

Tesla, Amazon plus a slew of startups are all talking robotics this week

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Nathaniel Whittemore
May 17, 2023

Welcome to The AI Breakdown, the most interesting & important news and conversations in AI.

First, the News:

  • Apple is updating text-to-speech that can mimic a user’s voice

  • Elon Musk says he’s the reason OpenAI exists

  • Hungry for that longer context window? Quora’s Poe is beta-testing Claude’s 100k update

  • Buzzfeed appears to be replacing news with generative AI

The Most Interesting..Well Thing?

There are robots everywhere this week. I’m not exactly sure what to say about it, other than…they’re everywhere. Amazon, Tesla, Sanctuary AI…and some Doc Ock thing.

Now perhaps rather than some insightful analysis here, I’ll point you to a recent talk by Yuval Noah Harari about “AI and the future of humanity.” In it, he makes the point that our science fiction conception of the AI threat involves AI claiming a physical form in robots. However, he believes language and the intimacy it can bring is enough to do the damage. Worth your consideration:

The Most Interesting…Plugins

It’s Plugins mania after Bard opened to all last week and ChatGPT is rolling Plugins and Browsing out to Plus users this week. Here’s a categorization of the Plugins so far:

Plus my video about what I think is most intriguing and useful so far (and how plugins change the ChatGPT experience).

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