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
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This Week's Most Interesting Stories
What would it take to build your company's first synthetic employee? What AI models could you use? How much data will it require? What about compute power? Electricity? Technical resources? Security? Legal? Risk? Ethics? Is the idea simply too crazy to think about now? Should you just wait until someone invents artificial general intelligence (AGI)?
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OpenAI has introduced "Swarm," an experimental framework designed to coordinate networks of AI agents. Though not an official product, Swarm provides developers with a blueprint for creating AI systems capable of autonomous collaboration on complex tasks.
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The New York Times has put Perplexity.ai on notice: "Don't crawl our site, or else!" This is a little comical since Google has been crawling nytimes.com since the beginning of Google, but we need a distinction here. Two verbs, both terms of art: "to crawl," which means to systematically browse the web, index content, and then make it searchable through a search engine; "to scrape," which is the automated process of gathering information from the web to collect content from webpages.
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A high school senior in Massachusetts is at the center of a legal dispute after being disciplined for using AI in a class assignment. His parents have filed a lawsuit against the history teacher, school district, and local school committee, arguing that the disciplinary actions taken against their son were unfair and not supported by the school's policies at the time of the incident.
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One of my favorite Apple devices just got a serious upgrade. Apple announced the new iPad mini, equipped with the A17 Pro chip (the same processor found in the latest iPhones), which will allow it to run Apple Intelligence.
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Google’s AI note-taking and research assistant, NotebookLM, has introduced a key update that allows users to guide AI-generated audio conversations that are more customized than the genAI podcasts that made NotebookLM famous a few weeks ago.
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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.
