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None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative AI boom

Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.

Copyright infringement issues could sink their business, but why should they have to pay licensing fees like everybody else?

Sam Altman’s weekend of shock and drama began a year ago, with the release of ChatGPT.

OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring