if one or two places can change their relative importance in technology within such a short time span, you know, five to seven years, and it's not just China, you know Canada, for instance, the outsize role that it has played in AI research. You know, much of the AI boom that we see today comes from just a couple of major advancements in AI that happened, for instance, alexnet, which was this seismic event in neural networks.
You might also like
Azure had a real competitive advantage thanks to being the only hyperscaler able to offer OpenAI models, but this also hindered OpenAI, particularly once it became clear that many enterprises cared first and foremost about accessing models on their current cloud of choice; I've been noting for a while that this was a real competitive advantage for Anthropic.
Ben Thompson
We tend to conflate power-seeking AI and superintelligent (in science and tech) AI. I'm not denying that AI can be power-seeking. Whatever skills and drives Donald Trump has could be embodied in a digital mind. I'm simply pointing out that the way we're currently making AI systems smarter (training them to be really good coders, thought partners, and general coworkers) is not that strongly correlated with power.
Dwarkesh Patel
The new game from the creators of Returnal goes all-in on the PlayStation's haptics and 3D audio.
Boone Ashworth