Shelly Palmer has been named LinkedIn’s “Top Voice in Technology,” and writes a popular daily business blog.
For your weekend reading pleasure, I offer a synopsis of interesting articles about AI you may have missed this week. As always, your thoughts and comments are both welcome and encouraged. -s
This Week's Most Interesting Stories
With all that is going on in the world -- real problems, real wars, real issues that are happening in real time -- it's easy to understand why we don't hear much about the potential socioeconomic impact of AI. There's lots of talk about regulations, privacy, safety, ethics, and intellectual property rights, but not much talk about how AI is going to truly impact how we spend our day. Let's explore.
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Do we need AI regulation? Can we articulate a specific danger? If so, how far should the regulations go? Who will they protect? How will they be enforced? How can we accomplish the protections we need and still foster and encourage innovation? These are all rational questions that, one would hope, lawmakers are asking themselves as they craft our laws.
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X announced the latest iterations of its Grok AI models, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini. The company says these models bring enhanced reasoning capabilities and new functionalities to the platform, including the ability to generate images directly on X. Access to Grok-2 is currently restricted to Premium and Premium+ users.
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I read this study before bed last night: "Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness Interviews." It scared me more than I thought it would. The study explores how chatbots powered by LLMs can influence the formation of false memories for users; in other words, they can literally make users hallucinate.
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For those of you not of a certain age, at the climax of the original Ghostbusters movie, Gozer the Gozerian (an ancient Sumerian demigod, aka Google) offers the Ghostbusters a choice (albeit, not a great one): they get to choose the form of the monster that will annihilate humanity. As Hollywood movies often do, this worked out okay; evil marshmallow monsters can end up toasted. Even though Google isn't a giant Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, the choice it's offering publishers is absolutely existential.
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With AI-generated spam becoming more prevalent, Shelly breaks down how these regulations aim to close existing loopholes and protect consumers. Discover what you can do to report unwanted texts and calls, and why Shelly remains skeptical about the effectiveness of these new rules.
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ABOUT SHELLY PALMER
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing. Named LinkedIn’s “Top Voice in Technology,” he covers tech and business for Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN and writes a popular daily business blog. He's a bestselling author, and the creator of the popular, free online course, Generative AI for Execs. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.
