'US audiobooks are now almost at parity with ebooks, each having close to 20% market share' linkedin.com/pulse/audio-ai…

Ithaka S+R Announces a New Research Project on Generative AI and Scholarly #Publishing & More News Headlines ow.ly/CVfe50RmfiN #scholcomm #publishing #ai #genal

Looking for AI use-cases, by Benedict Evans Benedict Evans ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…

Yet it is crucial to note that the distinction between real and synthetic is increasingly blurring. This is due in part to the fact that many modern cameras already integrate AI functionalities to direct light and frame objects.reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/spotting-…

Americans buy an average of 68 garments a year and wear each an average of seven times before discarding.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/a…

' the rumor mill is postulating that the company will drop something big such as Sora or even the much anticipated GPT-5.' tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/ope…

AI is whatever doesn’t work yet, because once it works it’s just software. ft.com/content/4cecce…

So, can the GUI itself be generative? Or do we need another whole generation of Dan Bricklins to see the problem, and then turn it into apps, thousands of them, one at a time, each of them with some LLM somewhere under the hood? ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…

The reality, with a tiny number of exceptions, has always been that only a very small percentage of your target users are interested and ready to explore a new tool, and for the rest, you will need to sell to them. ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…

Indeed, there were even books on how to use Google, just as today there are long essays and videos on how to learn ‘prompt engineering.’ ben-evans.com/benedictevans/…

All the major AI companies are spending billions producing almost exactly the same results using almost exactly the same data using almost exactly the same technology — all flawed in almost exactly the same ways. garymarcus.substack.com/p/groupthink-v…

The company's apps have 3.19 billion daily users, and Meta will work to ensure that those users find reasons to consult its AI bots regularly. platformer.news/llama-3-meta-r…

Meetings will be just a bunch of AI avatars talking to each other—afterward, people will check out the summary to see what the AIs said to each other. wired.com/story/taking-b…

Launched this year, PW Content Studio is devoted to creating new experiences and offerings for the professional publishing community, including custom content and events... publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

'These days, the trash ebook publishing landscape is fully saturated with grifters.' Constance Grady vox.com/culture/241285…

Announcing NeurIPS Preschool Track

This year, we invite preschoolers to submit machine learning research papers.

'Clem Delangue, CEO of the AI startup HuggingFace, suggested that up to 99% of use cases could be addressed using SLMs' venturebeat.com/ai/why-small-l…

No wonder we don't read book: 'daily information diet includes about 100,000 words' nytimes.com/2009/12/10/tec…

A new post, spurred on by the weekend's grim reporting: thefutureofpublishing.com/2024/04/could-…