Kevin Kortum

Medium

LeCun thinks we need completely different approaches, including what he calls “world models,” before we can talk seriously about AGI. His timeline? At least a decade, probably much longer.

I’m obviously no expert, but I’ve been saying this for years. LLM’s are not a path to AGI or any sort of intelligence. They are fancy algorithms with random outputs. They don’t think or understand—they ingest and compute.

Futurism

Coca-Cola is back with another series of AI-generated ads to herald the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year.

What an expensive and ugly ad. People keep saying “ThIs iS ThE WoRsT AI WiLl EvEr bE,” and sure, but also, it’s absolutely terrible and pointless. Why would you ever want to take the time to make something this bad and put your name on it???

FT

Based on a total cumulative deal value of up to $1.8tn, OpenAI is heading for a data centre rental bill of about $620bn a year — though only a third of the contracted power is expected to be online by the end of this decade.

The charts on this article are wild. I believe they’ve raised over $60 billion so far, so over the next five years they will 4x that—just to continue to lose money. And that’s assuming they double their paying user base. Obviously the intent for these companies is to find ways to