Tuesday, January 31, 2023

A roundup of potential rivals to OpenAI's ChatGPT service: DeepMind's Sparrow, Google's LaMDA, Anthropic's Claude, and Character AI (Sharon Goldman/VentureBeat)

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
A roundup of potential rivals to OpenAI's ChatGPT service: DeepMind's Sparrow, Google's LaMDA, Anthropic's Claude, and Character AI  —  Today, ChatGPT is two months old.  —  Yes, believe it or not, it was less than nine weeks ago that OpenAI launched what it simply described as an …



A look at the history of generative AI and developments that paved the way for breakthroughs, including CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and transformers (Haomiao Huang/Ars Technica)

Haomiao Huang / Ars Technica:
A look at the history of generative AI and developments that paved the way for breakthroughs, including CUDA, convolutional neural networks, and transformers  —  A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible.  —  Progress in AI systems often feels cyclical.



EU Commission changes, triggered by human rights group ICCL, mean regulators in Ireland and elsewhere will report six times a year on GDPR, violations, and more (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:
EU Commission changes, triggered by human rights group ICCL, mean regulators in Ireland and elsewhere will report six times a year on GDPR, violations, and more  —  It's well established that the European Union has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world, threatening fines of up to 4% of a company's annual turnover.



Dutch social enterprise Fairphone, which makes sustainable, modular consumer electronics, raised €49M in "growth capital", bringing its total funding to ~€86.6M (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Dutch social enterprise Fairphone, which makes sustainable, modular consumer electronics, raised €49M in “growth capital”, bringing its total funding to ~€86.6M  —  Dutch social enterprise Fairphone, which makes modular and — the claim is — more sustainable …



An in-depth analysis of Yandex's leaked source code shows 17,854 ranking factors, scraping Google, Bing, YouTube, and TikTok, "Vital Hosts" boosts, and more (Michael King/Search Engine Land)

Michael King / Search Engine Land:
An in-depth analysis of Yandex's leaked source code shows 17,854 ranking factors, scraping Google, Bing, YouTube, and TikTok, “Vital Hosts” boosts, and more  —  Yandex isn't Google, but there is a lot SEOs can learn about how a modern search engine is built from reviewing this codebase.



A draft EU proposal details plans to ask Netflix, Alphabet, and other "large traffic generators" to help pay for next-generation internet infrastructure (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg)

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg:
A draft EU proposal details plans to ask Netflix, Alphabet, and other “large traffic generators” to help pay for next-generation internet infrastructure  —  The European Union is weighing a proposal to make technology companies that use the most bandwidth, like Netflix Inc. and Alphabet Inc. …



Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...