… week ending September 29, 2023 Welcome to the Saturday weekly AI summary here on ‘AI: Reset to Zero’. Here are this week’s AI highlights:

… they’re tools for work & play My short description for this newsletter over 120 daily posts ago made clear that I’m a long-term optimist on AI technologies, which are just getting started after decades of work: “AI is coming. Ready or not. This explores the glass half full. By…

… about personalities used, and user data After months of hints and anticipation, today Meta Founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Meta’s ‘Smart Agent’ AIs, along with other new products and services at the company’s Connect Developer Conference. Key difference vs OpenAI, Google and other LLM AIs that Meta was focusing on…

… moving towards a second ‘ChatGPT moment’ ChatGPT is on the move. Its parent, OpenAI may have beat multiple trillion dollar companies to the punch. As I’ve discussed earlier, Apple, Amazon, Google have been racing to add LLM AI capabilities to their multi-billion dollar ‘Voice Assistants’.

… that leaves Apple With Microsoft, Google, Meta all having ties to BIG Foundation LLM AI models, the question has been if Amazon and Apple needed one too. Remember Amazon AWS hosts lots of traditional and AI computing services of all types and sells access to the same to businesses…

… Sequoia and a16z take positions We have a public disagreement between the two top gunfighters at high noon. And potentially need to agree to disagree. Let me explain. There’s growing consensus that this coming AI Tech wave is potentially bigger than tech waves past, and that a ‘gold rush’…

… differences in regulatory approaches AI: In my View, September 24 In this Sunday’s ‘AI: In my View’, I’d like to focus briefly on the BIG ISSUE of how regulators in the US and Europe are tackling the risks and opportunities around AI. And underline a subtle point that may…

… week ending September 22, 2023 Welcome to the Saturday weekly AI summary here on ‘AI: Reset to Zero’. Here are this week’s AI highlights: Google and Microsoft show off AI Productivity App and OS Plans: Week saw Google releasing their AI Bard connecting to Google productivity apps and services…

… working not so fast Back in July, I addressed the potential ‘sticker shock’ from the planned pricing by Microsoft and others for AI tools like CoPilot for Office 365 and Windows, promising ‘AI augmentation’ for ‘Knowledge Workers’ everywhere (a phrase coined by management guru Peter Drucker in 1959, and…