AI April: When a month feels like a decade
When I wrote my last newsletter on March 20, it felt like we had already reached Peak AI Hype, but in retrospect, it seems we were just getting started.
A random list of stuff that has happened since: we got open source models like Dolly 2.0 from Databricks, Elon Musk founded his own AI company, Sam Altman said the time of large language models is already over, Google merged DeepMind and Google Brain, Snapchat releases an AI chatbot but their app store rating tanked after it gets an overwhelming number of 1 star reviews, Palantir is showcasing AI supported warfare and says there is nothing to worry about, Dropbox is laying off 500 workers and pivoting to become an “AI company”,and then last week, Geoff Hinton, who invented backpropagation, came forward and said he has quit his job at Google because he needed to warn the world of the dangers of AI.
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