Public Discourse and AI Innovations

Today, you might have heard about the latest Elon controversy where he criticized an employee, and then walked it all back. We’ll get into that. DuckDuckGo melds two AI tools together. A Large Visual Language Model that will help robots move around in the real world. I explain why I’m telling you about every new Generative AI advance seemingly every single day. And with Google officially announcing the date for I/O, is their headlong rush to release AI products the waking of a sleeping giant, or the second coming of Google+?

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Links:

• FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications, Journalist Names (WSJ)
• Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire (The Verge)
• Elon Musk apologizes after mocking disabled Twitter employee (AP)
• DuckDuckGo Releases Its Own ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine, DuckAssist (Gizmodo)
• Google’s PaLM-E is a generalist robot brain that takes commands (ArsTechnica)
• Google’s Plan to Catch ChatGPT Is to Stuff AI Into Everything (Bloomberg)

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