This week we feature articles from Steve Jones, and Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor.
Additional reading comes from Victor Morgante, Andrej Karpathy, Daniel Tunkelang, and LlamaIndex.
News comes from Sinequa, Perplexity, Tonic.ai, and Siteimprove.
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Opinion / Analysis
The AGI hype is damaging the AI opportunity
“There are two ways that this hype is damaging the view of AI within businesses today.
- It sounds like utter snake oil promising that in future it will be great
- It implies that current AI approaches aren’t good enough”
Steve Jones calls out the hypesters. (6 min)
https://blog.metamirror.io/the-agi-hype-is-damaging-the-ai-opportunity-c45bae1f7f5a
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
AI hype damage is not just bad for business, it’s bad for science. Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor explain “How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype”. (6 min)
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/scientists-should-use-ai-as-a-tool
More Reading
- Multi-model, GQL… The future of databases — graph relational via Towards Data Science
- Property Graph Index: A new way to build knowledge graphs with LLMs via LlamaIndex Blog
- A real deal… Reproducing GPT-2 (124M) in llm.c in 90 minutes for $20 via Andrej Karpathy
- Bags of documents or, bags of queries as sparse document representations via Daniel Tunkelang
Content technology news
Sinequa releases new generative AI assistants
The enterprise domain-specific generative AI assistants integrate with content and applications to augment and transform knowledge work.
https://www.sinequa.com/company/press/sinequa-augments-companies-with-release-of-new-generative-ai-assistants/
Perplexity introduces Perplexity Pages
Pages lets you create, organize, and share information. Search any topic, and instantly receive a well-structured, beautifully formatted article.
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/new
Tonic.ai launches secure unstructured data lakehouse for LLMs
Tonic Textual is specifically architected to meet the complexity, scale, integration and privacy demands of enterprise unstructured data.
https://www.tonic.ai/textual
Siteimprove launches new product features
New capabilities designed to turn data into easy to understand insights, increase cross-organizational collaboration & facilitate decision making.
https://www.siteimprove.com/hello/new-and-siteimproved-2024-q2-product-release/
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