Episode 10
AI can detect fraud in milliseconds yet I still fall for “buy 2 get 1 free” at Target.
☕ AI Hot Gossip:
$1.5B “oops, we stole your book” settlement - Anthropic (aka Amazon & Google’s AI side hustle) just agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors for training on pirated books. Basically, AI’s out here running a #BookTok haul without paying.
👉 Read moreAI resurrects a classic film - AI is being used to rebuild the missing 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons. Translation: even dead men are getting closure before some of us do.
Investors are still thirsty for AI - The FOMO is real: Pre-IPO AI startups are getting valuations that make "treat yo’self" look cheap.
Dyson’s robot vacuum for stain emergencies - The new Spot+Scrub AI robot stalks stains like your FBI-level bestie on Instagram.
🧠 AI Word of the Day: Vector Database
Definition: A special kind of database that stores information in math-y coordinates so AI can “remember” and find things fast. Like Google Maps, but for your brain.
In a sentence: Wish I had a vector database for remembering where I left my sunglasses.
🫣 The Cringe Files:
Sam Altman Realizes the Internet Is Full of Bots - In a move equal parts ironic and cringey, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman commented that the internet seems overrun by LLM-run accounts. Imagine the arsonist suddenly noticing the fire.
Salesforce fires 262 people… thanks to AI - Salesforce replaced customer service staff with its AI tool “Agentforce.” Because who doesn’t love pouring your heart out to a chatbot that says: “Have you tried logging out and back in?”
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