Episode 411: AI update

This episode examines a series of AI related articles from The Wall Street Journal and Epoch Times (Subscriptions required). The articles primarily cover AI related developments with Meta and OpenAI. Meta is seeking to fully automate ad creation using AI and is teaming up with Anduril to develop combat VR headsets for the Army. OpenAI has committed to developing a gigantic data center with the U.A.E., former Apple designer, Jony Ive, has been brought in to develop new products, they announced the release of an AI companion device next year, the company has abandoned plans for a for-profit conversion, and their relationship with Microsoft is deteriorating quickly. One article is examined that pushes back on the current narrative that AI is on the verge of superintelligence. Finally, an article on Anthropic’s AI model and how it threatened engineers with blackmail to avoid shutdown!