weekend ai reads for 2023-02-03

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS

• Primer on the history and frameworks of generative AI Ars Technica

• Who Owns the Generative AI Platform? Andreessen Horowitz

  • “Overview of the commercial state of the AI market, and why it’s hard to pick a ‘winner’ from the current crop of players – and why it’s equally hard at present to see anyone carving out any sort of meaningful competitive advantage”; spoiler: there are no “moats”

🎓 EDUCATION and AI

• ‘Everybody is cheating’: Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy NPR

🥽 VR/AR

• Why VR/AR Gets Farther Away as It Comes Into Focus Matthew Ball

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Microsoft Teams Premium: Cut costs and add AI-powered productivity Microsoft

  • Overview of how Open AI is getting integrated into Teams Premium

• Tutorial to making your own talking avatar, from a pseudonymous ex-Apple AI enthusiast Twitter (sorry)

• "I loaded journal entries from the past 10 years into GPT-3 and then started asking it questions", a thread by Dan Shipper, CEO of Every Twitter (sorry)