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If Evans’ experience is a canary in a coal mine, the whole generative AI field, at least at current valuations, could come to a fairly swift end. Coders would continue to use it, and marketers who have to write a lot of copy to promote their products in order to increase search engine rankings would, too. But neither coding nor high-speed, mediocre quality copy-writing are remotely enough to maintain current valuation dreams.

• People: Sportwashing? Challenges of beekeeping. Optimizing wellbeing by saying hi to six neighbours. Discourse on winning and loosing [PDF]. Removing stuff. Capitulation of Grimes - but using AI to generate songs, provided profits are shared too.

• Science: Pine’s demon - 3D plasmon. Do insects feel love and pain? Predicting earthquakes with GPS. Solar grazing. Learning from paper airplanes.

• Future: 10 visions of 2023. Futures from ruins. AI for work-life balance. Uphill thinking. Imagineering A Better Future.

• AI: What if GenAI was a dud? Politics - the AI power paradox. Does ChatGPT dream of electric sheep [PDF]? Llama-2-70B performs at the same level as OpenAI’s GPT-4 in summarisation tasks, but 30x cheaper.

Does it need accountability too?

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AI and Work-Life balance?