Happy Friday 👋 If scrolling LinkedIn feels like doom-swiping your way through Tinder, you’re not alone. Ironically, OpenAI thinks the cure for soul-crushing professional dating is more AI. Meet the OpenAI Jobs Platform. It promises smarter matchmaking, plus certifications to boost your AI game. Will it replace LinkedIn? Maybe not. But it’ll definitely annoy their biggest investor.
🌎 AI browsers are Big Tech’s latest obsession. Apple, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and even DuckDuckGo are jumping in. Now software giant Atlassian has secured a spot, buying DIA browser for $610m. Why? Because AI browsers unlock your data, productivity tools, agents, and ads. Google’s antitrust ruling poured gas on the fire, forcing it to share its search index and giving rivals a shortcut to AI empires. Cue the Y2K soundtrack: the browser wars are back. Only this time the prize is your entire digital life.
🍎 Robots are learning how to learn. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot now runs on a single large behavior model (LBM), trained from simulations and videos. Instead of relying on lots of specialized programs, Atlas can smoothly adapt to unpredictable situations. And remember, robots only need to master a skill once. Just wait till humanoids get out into the real world.
🧠 Big tech keeps hyping AGI, but what is it? Some define it as human-like intelligence that’s able to learn independently, understand context, and make $$. But today’s AI is just a word-prediction machine that’s overly eager to please. So how do we get from here to AGI? Big tech will likely fake it by adding massive memory, boosting token limits, and letting AI learn continuously from its interactions. It won’t be conscious, but it might just be convincing enough to fool you.
💨 Tesla will soon deploy airbags before you crash. A new software update lets the camera-based AI predict accidents and trigger the airbags before anything actually happens. Tesla Vision already has a reputation for phantom braking and false alarms, and will soon be able to add random airbag deployment to the list. We feel safer already.
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🎤 OK Go just dropped an interactive music video for Gen AI, and the lyrics are mind-bending. “Impulse Purchase” explores our awkward dance with AI, asking if real connection and understanding might soon give way to superficial simulations. It questions if machines can ever truly become conscious. And because it’s Ok Go you can download the Blender files, remix the 3D animations, and try for digital immortality as you dance toward the singularity.
🎧 Check out: OK GO x Blender’s shout out to the singularity
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chatbots make false claims to news prompts 📰 That’s up from 18% in August 2024. Why all the fake news? You can thank model collapse – LLMs are pulling from unreliable online sources made worse by bad actors seeding lies.