Daily Digest: The lawsuit is silly

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As a reminder, Ben’s Bites Pro will go from $100/year to $150/year on Jan 1st. Two posts I’ve written so far; How Mistral AI, an OpenAI competitor, rocketed to $2Bn in <12 months and How Deel uses AI in its business.

Here’s what we have today;

PICKS

1. The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI Would Open Up The NY Times To All Sorts Of Lawsuits Should It Win. Some key points debated include:

   • Whether the models truly have copies of copyrighted works stored internally or are just narrowly prompted to reproduce specific works.

   • If narrow prompting to reproduce a work is still considered copyright infringement under law.

   • Whether the entity prompting the model or the model/company that created it would be liable in a copyright case.

   • Comparisons made to tools like photo editors, and debates over if the tool creator could be liable for copyright infringement based on a user's actions with the tool.

2. How Artificial Intelligence Will Change in 2024. This article from The Information forecasts that;

   • Microsoft and OpenAI may have a public falling out due to competitive tensions.

   • An AI startup that was once successful may be acquired or shut down as funding becomes more difficult to obtain.

   • The dominance of transformer models in generative AI may be challenged by new non-transformer models like Mamba.

   • AI-generated misinformation could impact the 2024 US presidential election.

   • Generative AI may start to be applied to physical devices like robots and wearables.

   • China may develop powerful new AI chips to reduce its reliance on US technology.

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NEWS

• Building LLM Agents in 3 Levels of Complexity: From Scratch, OpenAI Functions & LangChain

• Microsoft’s AI Image Creator makes violent images and they point the finger at rogue users.

• More than 40 investors share their top predictions for 2024

• Justin McLeod (Hinge founder): AI is ‘really going to change the game’ for dating apps

• EU competition chief defends Artificial Intelligence Act after Macron’s attack

• Do language models know when they're hallucinating? TL;DR answer: yes!

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