Welcome back everyone to another AI Insights newsletter by NotCentralised. We explore the interesting things we’ve been finding on the world of AI this past week and synthesise it for the things we think you should care about.
If you’re interested in talking with us about how to get the best out of AI for your work then feel free to get in touch with us either on this contact form or email.
SIKE in the NC Show podcast
We featured SIKE in our NC show podcast last week where we highlighted how we’re using it to write consistent content, the use of AI agents/teams and how we’ve got a Discord showing how to do things with the tool – starts at 16:04
Apple (not artificial) Intelligence
AI inside Apple devices was the big news this week with some loving, and some hating the news. This came as part of the WDC conference this week and well-known AI commentary, Robert Scoble highlights it here on X – see the post here.
Though folks like Elon aren’t too happy about it all as he shares his disdain for trusting Apple with your private data (even if they talk about ways they protect it). It is ironic though, given that folks are also being asked to trust X, or Tesla with the data that goes into those services Elon provides. See the post on it here on X as well.
Apple clapped back after this as well which didn’t sit well with the owner of X as he’s now deleted their tweets and posts (see their X account).
It just goes to show that privacy is indeed a concern for people when it comes to AI and it harks back to why we built our AI platform SIKE to be a way to have more trusted ways to work with AI.
OpenAI and the NSA
OpenAI hired a former NSA chief to their advisory board to beef up AI safety but it has many heads turning the other way believing that this also enhances their chances of surveilling us given that’s what this NSA director did under his tenure. Read the full article on the OpenAI blog here.
Also, on that note there was this piece seeing further Defence related usage of AI with Microsoft deploying models into a Pentagon private cloud. See more here.
Rounding out the news on OpenAI, there’s speculation they could become a private company? It’s being considered according to this note on X (including an article link in the post).
Back to Doomerism
Whilst this video might seem like it’s buying into the AI doomerism, it’s certainly not that. If anything this is the sort of pragmatic critiques needed in this space.
Sora gets some competition from Luma
Just when you thought we had to continue to wait until Sora comes out from OpenAI, we get this, an accessible text up video model from Luma. Check this out
The AI bubble?
Is AI in a bubble? According to this video it is but we certainly don’t agree with everything said here. Whilst many new industries (and existing ones) get some overhype, there’s nuance to all of this. A flaw pointed out in the video around hallucinations is, as we’ve highlighted, able to be solved for if you provide appropriate context to what the AI needs to look at. We do agree on cautioning over unrealistic expectations but from what we’ve been working on, we have a lot more reasons to be optimistic when we see the capabilities. Still, check this out.
Cold water on Situational Awareness
Remember the 165-page manifesto from Leopold Aschenbrenner (called Situational Awareness) the former OpenAI researcher? Well now there’s this from well known data science YouTuber Sabine who pours some cold water on it
Open-source Perplexity
Here’s to the power of open source tooling especially if you like Perplexity. Many were users of the free and paid versions of this great search tool (powered by AI) but when Google announced they would add AI to their search capabilities, many worried about the viability of Perplexity. But now, whether they stick around or not, there’s alternative solutions like this open source one called Perplexica. See more here in this article.
AI Tools Updates
We’ll leave you with this Matt Wolfe video who does the great roundup of interesting AI tools to check out this week (including the new Luma text to video tool).
Get in touch
Stay tuned for more insights from us next week and if you’re interested in SIKE (our privacy focused AI tool), then you can check out more on what it’s about here.
If you’re interested in learning more, reach out to Arturo Rodriguez or 📈 Mark Monfort here and get in touch with us here or on email at we@notcentralised.com.
