"He's not even a 10x engineer. He's like, 100x, or 1,000x engineer" Gmail creator Paul Buchheit on how Bret Taylor once rewrote Google Maps in a single weekend:

I “jailbroke” a Google Nest Mini so that you can run your own LLM’s, agents and voice models. Here’s a demo using it to manage all my messages (with help from Beeper) 🔊 on, and wait for surprise guest! I thought hard about how to best tackle this and why, see 🧵

US judge finds flaws in artists' lawsuit against #AI companies reuters.com/legal/litigati… #StableDiffusion #genAI #AIlaw #IPlaw #webscraping #openweb Andersen et al v. Stability AI Ltd. et al dockets.justia.com/docket/califor… + courtlistener.com/docket/6673212…

What will the federal government do with generative AI? nextgov.com/artificial-int… via @nextgov

Department of Internal Affairs has put out some guidance today on use of generative AI in the public sector...

🗺️ NEW! Can journalists rely on #AI chatbots to successfully geolocate an image? Investigative journalism group Bellingcat conducted 3️⃣ tests to examine the geolocation capabilities of #Bing and #Bard. Reporter Dennis Kovtun broke down the findings: ⬇️ buff.ly/3O7PmFu

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Tackling generative AI’s sustainability problem diginomica.com/tackling-gener…

Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New updates on Bellingcat's #github this week. The 'whisperbox' API receives audio or video URLs and returns the video transcripts using OpenAI's Whisper model. Designed by Bellingcat discord member github.com/fspoettel Find the tool at: github.com/bellingcat/whi…

📢NEW PAPER! Where Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social, Sarah Myers West & I unpack what Open Source AI even is. We find that the terms ‘open’ & ‘open source’ are often more marketing than technical descriptor, and that even the most 'open' systems don't alone democratize AI 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

There's a resurgence of interest in fine tuning LLMs I've yet to see a successful public use case where fine tuning > prompting. But here's where I see fine tuning *mattering*: First, fine tuning is for teaching an LLM specific tasks or behaviors Not teaching an LLM new

Behind the hype of generative AI, large companies are struggling to deploy the new technology — hitting cost and data management hurdles that are leaving many of their generative AI projects stuck in pilot phase. trib.al/zwRlIVl

As adoption of generative AI grows, providers are hoping that greater transparency about how they do and don't use customers' data will increase those clients' trust in the technology. trib.al/tCr3DVd

Congratulations 🎉 to CRE researcher Dr Carmen Lim Carmen Lim who has been awarded $660,000 by the NHMRC to develop a program to understand how pro-vaping campaigns on social media influence young peoples' attitudes towards the use of e-cigarettes.

Congratulations team NCYSUR who is being awarded a 1.5 million dollar NHMRC ideas grant, led by Dr Daniel Stjepanovic, Tianze Sun 孙天则 , A/Prof Phong Thai, and Prof. @DavidHammondPhD.

Transformative governance of innovation ecosystems sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

“When we have a technology that treats something as simple and fundamental as our name as an error, it robs us of our personhood" theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

✍️Dorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel, Rouven Schabinger and Nina Leonie Weisweiler, explore how common data repository shutdowns are and suggest what can be done to ensure data preservation in the long-term. #OpenData wp.me/p4m9em-cPR

I am really troubled by the proposal from the Tony Blair Institute for a "National Data Trust" (NDT) for health data, particularly by the idea that the next government might actually go for it. institute.global/insights/polit…