Steampunk AI

Don't let AI mix your Coca-Cola flavor (at least not yet)

An agreement in Hollywood and AI assistants coming to your Raybans

Another batch of reading links for the weekend

After a bit of a crazy travel week, just four links, but here they are: * Writer.AIs $100M Series B (the TechCrunch take is here): there have been a lot of AI mega-funding rounds, but I’m calling this one out because I think it’s a pattern we’ll

New techniques are getting more out of less data and not all data is created equal

Five of the most interesting news items of the week

Yes, unless you want to discount most of human creativity

Plus the limits of LLMs and what we'll need to build around them.

The new silicon divide probably won't be as bad as it looks

Welcome to this week’s Smokebox! A weekly digest of some of the most interesting AI-related news items each week: * Benedict Evans outlines many of the key questions around AI and Copyright. No good answers yet, but good questions. I plan a full post on this in the future, but

Beating the immitation game matters much less than it seems

What's new and interesting this week

Sparks of unfiltered creation

Yet Another AI Substack.