I still don't think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone

AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life I'm quoted in this Washington Post story by Gerrit De Vynck about "agents" - which in this case are defined as AI systems that operate a computer system like a human might, for example Anthropic's Computer Use demo. “The problem is that language models as a technology are inherently...

According to public financial documents from its parent company IAC and first reported by Adweek OpenAI is paying around $16 million per year to license content [from Dotdash Meredith]. That is no doubt welcome incremental revenue, and you could call it “lucrative” in the sense of having a fat margin, as OpenAI is almost certainly paying for...

I published my review of 2024 in LLMs and then got into a fight with most of the internet over the phone microphone targeted ads conspiracy theory. In my last weeknotes I talked about how December in LLMs has been a lot. That was on December 20th, and it turned out there were at least three big new LLM stories still to come before the end of the...

I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time Delightful Steve Jobs era Apple story from James Thomson, who built the first working prototype of the macOS Dock. Via lobste.rs Tags: apple, history, steve-jobs

Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth". When you have a conversation with Claude, what's really happening is you're coauthoring a fictional conversation transcript with the Shoggoth wherein you are writing the lines...