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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

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Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Others retort that large language models (LLMs) have already reached the peak of their powers. OpenAI is already becoming a dominant player with US$2 billion (£1.6

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

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Why is it that Amazon, which has positioned itself as “the most customer-centric company on the planet,” now lards its search results with advertisements, placing them ahead of the customer-centric results chosen by the company’s organic search algorithms, which prioritize a combination of low price, high customer ratings, and other similar factors?

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

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TL;DR LLMs and other GenAI models can reproduce significant chunks of training data. This is the basis of The New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI. Researchers are finding more and more ways to extract training data from ChatGPT and other models. Specific prompts seem to “unlock” training data.

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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

CIO Business Intelligence

About a month after the deal closed, Broadcom laid off employees and ended perpetual licenses, driving up the price for many customers. Early in this process, I concluded that the previous go-to-market model was too complex and costly for VMware and its customers,” Tan wrote. “It The VMware acquisition has been no different.

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AI Has an Uber Problem

O'Reilly on Data

The race to the top is no longer driven by who has the best product or the best business model, but by who has the blessing of the venture capitalists with the deepest pockets—a blessing that will allow them to acquire the most customers the most quickly, often by providing services below cost. That is true product-market fit.

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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

CIO Business Intelligence

Early in this process, I concluded that the previous go-to-market model was too complex and costly for VMware and its customers. There have been many questions about how we’re putting this feedback into action. We are backing it up with billions of dollars in new investment to ensure its success.

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Microsoft can’t keep up with demand for AI in the cloud — for now

CIO Business Intelligence

GitHub Copilot is still using a much smaller model,” Patel said. When suppliers can’t meet demand in in other domains, they may raise prices until demand falls off, or customers may seek alternative sources or substitute different products. AWS and Google both have capacity issues as well.