Report: no reason to fire Sam Altman

Ars Technica After reportedly interviewing dozens of people and reviewing over 30,000 documents, [the legal firm hired to investigate Altman’s firing] found that while the prior board acted within its purview, Altman’s termination was unwarranted....

Etsy Dropped the Deepfakes

Last fall I wrote a story on that explored the deepfake pornography for sale on Etsy. Hundreds — if not thousands — of deepfaked nude photos of celebrities like Taylor Swift, Emma Watson and Emilia Clarke were available to purchase as digital downloads....

Can ChatGPT Be A Doctor?

Axios has the sensational headline: ChatGPT plays doctor with 72% success. Driving the news: A new study from Mass General Brigham researchers testing ChatGPT’s performance on textbook-drawn case studies found the AI bot achieved 72% accuracy in overall clinical...

Politico AI Primer

Politico has an opinion piece today on nationalizing AI. I don’t agree with it’s conclusion, but it has some important tidbits on AI, that far too often are not explained. Some highlights I am going to stay out of most of the politics here, that can wait...

AI Influencers: Discern Who Gets the Money

Cross posted from my LinkedIn: As excited as I am about #AI, I am deeply distrustful of those behind it. We have over two decades of Silicon Valley Visionaries creating products that they promise will “democratize,” the world and “bring us together” and other such...