Flutterby™! : AI notes of the morning

Financial Times: Is AI Hitting a Wall? doesn't have a lot that feels new to me, except this quote from this wonderfully un-self-aware dude:

Many believe there is a huge amount of value yet to be unlocked in the current generation of models. “Start-ups and businesses have not begun to scratch the surface of what they are capable of in business and consumer applications,” says Peter Deng, former OpenAI, Uber and Facebook executive, now general partner at venture capital firm Felicis, which has invested in AI coding company Poolside and video generation start-up Runway.

So, you mean that AI isn't gonna figure this stuff out for us?

archive.ph link. Via and via.

Meanwhile... Sergey Brin: "We don’t circulate this too much in the AI community… but all models tend to do better if you threaten them - with physical violence. People feel weird about it, so we don't talk about it ... Historically, you just say, ‘I’m going to kidnap you if you don’t blah blah blah.’"

(roundabout by way of <https://bsky.app/profile/elfsternberg.bsky.social/post/3lwmbbr2kic2w">Elf Sternberg)