How artists can fight back against AI

With the latest on AI agents, brain mapping, and talking to animals

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What we're reading.

1/ How do export controls impact the AI Race? Quite obviously from the chip-level, but we’re about to enter new territory. There’s a joke about lawyers somewhere in here. Learn more at The Atlantic >

2/ The best way to fight the man is to play within their bounds, and this is the best way we’ve seen artists fight back at AI. Learn more at WIRED >

3/ [Listen] AI agents were all the rage for a short moment earlier this year, but their promise has been unfulfilled. Why is that? And what’s that mean for Imbue’s $1B valuation? Learn more at Latent Space >

4/ The best use of AI technology may just be the ability to talk to animals. What’s it going to take to get us there? Learn more at Science News Explores >

5/ The human brain has never been mapped in clearer fashion. Now how quickly can we translate this to transformers? Learn more at MIT Technology Review >

6/ In the past week, the most helpful AI hack has been, “Take a deep breath, and walk me through this step-by-step.” Here’s more on that lesson, and how to help ChatGPT make better decisions. Learn more at Every’s Chain of Thought >

7/ Anthropic has ideas on how to greatly improve LLM performance, and they’re tied to superposition. The root idea – decomposition. Learn more at Anthropic >

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