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
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