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There’s just too much happening in the land of AI to not talk about it more this week, so …. we will. Everything from generating fantastic images of the pope in a puffer jacket, asking current large-language model AIs about mirrored text on glass doors, to exploring the notion of pausing the development of these mega-AIs - Episode 15 has a little bit of everything. And no odd-numbered episode of Nonsense would be complete without a grim update about US-China relations - spoiler alert: they are not getting better.

The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess

AI-Generated “Dope Francis” Fools the Internet

How to open the gates

The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT

AirPods maker says Apple suppliers are rushing to get out of China faster than expected: ‘When can you move out?

US Policy on Taiwan and the Perils of ‘Strategic Ambiguity’

Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: Why the 6-month AI Pause is a Bad Idea

Moravec's paradox - Wikiwand