It issues which story you inform about the way forward for synthetic intelligence. Is AI only a device for people to make use of, like another software program? Is it a malignant power appearing to destroy creativity? Will it create robots bent on destruction? Or will it make the world unbelievable, lovely, equal, excellent in methods we will’t even start to think about?
This can shock you, however a few of the males operating the largest corporations in AI suppose it’s the latter. Each OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have lately written weblog posts — Altman’s brief and pithy, Amodei’s lengthy and thorough — concerning the AI-powered world they hope to assist create. These are highly effective males with big groups and huge sources at their disposal; it issues so much what they suppose they’re constructing.
On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Kylie Robison joins the present to debate the dueling CEO blogs, together with the issues Amodei and Altman agree on and the issues they don’t. She additionally talks us by way of a few of the large mannequin launches left to return this yr, and what it signifies that the limitless recreation of LLM oneupsmanship may quickly be ending.
After that, Will Poor tells us the story of ShakeAlert, an app and platform designed to alert tens of millions of individuals when an earthquake is coming. When you’ve ever learn that well-known New Yorker article, you realize why Will’s nervous about earthquakes. It seems we now have some methods to assist individuals — although there are some fairly stunning challenges in the best way.
Lastly, Allison Johnson joins Will to reply a query from the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11, or electronic mail [email protected]!) concerning the Digicam Management button on the iPhone 16. Apple had so much to say about how briskly it’s… however we needed to discover out for ourselves.
If you wish to know extra about all the pieces we talk about on this episode, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with AI:
And on the Digicam Management:
