Weekly Top Picks #45

Copilot, Bard, Alexa / F. Chollet was right / DALL-E 3 / ChatGPT sees and speaks / Authors Guild lawsuit / No to AGI / Six-month pause / Reversal curse / Optimus / OpenAI rumor mill: Arrakis

This week at a glance

• Big tech’s full-blown generative AI deployment: Microsoft Copilot, Bard Extensions, and Amazon Alexa

• OpenAI won’t let Google win: ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak

• DALL-E 3 vs. Midjourney vs. Gemini

• Students’ homework carries ChatGPT usage numbers

• Authors Guild lawsuit against OpenAI + WGA tentative deal

• Americans don’t want AI that’s smarter than humans

• Six months after the six-month pause letter

• The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”

• News about Tesla Optimus: autonomous object sorting

• OpenAI rumor mill: AGI internally + Arrakis + autonomous agents