Posts by lucidcapitalism

(Fortune) At some point in our lives, many of us will need professional help to take care of ourselves or someone we love. Helen Adeosun wants to make sure that when that day comes, there will be a competent, compassionate caregiver ready to knock on your door. Helen is the founder of CareAcademy, a rapidly growing online training…

(WSJ) Meta on Wednesday announced that it will require advertisers to disclose when they run political ads with media that has been digitally altered by artificial intelligence or other software ahead of the U.S. presidential election in 2024. The Facebook parent company said the new policy will go into effect at the start of the…

(Wired) When politicians, tech executives, and researchers gathered in the UK last week to discuss the risks of artificial intelligence, one prominent worry was that algorithms might someday turn against their human masters. More quietly, the group made progress on controlling the use of AI for military ends. On November 1, at the US embassy in…

(New York Times) Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay New York drivers a $328 million settlement after the state attorney general investigated a wage-theft complaint charging that the companies collected certain taxes and fees from drivers rather than passengers. Uber will pay $290 million and Lyft will provide $38 million into two funds that…

(The Atlantic) Earlier today, President Joe Biden signed the most sweeping set of regulatory principles on artificial intelligence in America to date: a lengthy executive order that directs all types of government agencies to make sure America is leading the way in developing the technology while also addressing the many dangers that it poses. The…

(MIT Technology Review) Joy Buolamwini, the renowned AI researcher and activist, appears on the Zoom screen from home in Boston, wearing her signature thick-rimmed glasses.  As an MIT grad, she seems genuinely interested in seeing old covers of MIT Technology Review that hang in our London office. An edition of the magazine from 1961 asks:…

(Washington Post) Forty-one states and D.C. are suing Meta, alleging that the tech giant harms children by building addictive features into Instagram and Facebook — legal actions that represent the most significant effort by state enforcers to tackle the impact of social media on children’s mental health. The barrage of lawsuits is the culmination of…

(Axios) Venture capitalists are pouring huge money into AI startups, with a dollar weighting toward those building foundational models. Why it matters: The VC market may be making its biggest binary bet ever, without quite realizing it. Behind the scenes: Many of those models are being built, in part, on data that is under U.S. copyright protection. Several of…

(Wired) When OpenAI published details of the stunningly capable AI language model GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, in March, its researchers filled 100 pages. They also left out a few important details—like anything substantial about how it was actually built or how it works. That was no accidental oversight, of course. OpenAI and other big companies are keen to keep the workings…

(Bloomberg) Celebrity venture capitalist Marc Andreessen issued a call to action on Monday morning, California time. In a blog post titled “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” the Netscape co-founder excoriated the enemies of progress (“elites,” “luddites,” “communists”) and celebrated the potential for technology to advance human greatness. Like many of Andreessen’s big-picture essays on tech over the years, the message…