Gov Intrusion & LLM Advances

An AI flavored February is approaching. And its an election year.

Which means some interesting things are occurring at the intersection of these things…

And..we’ve got something here:

Such a regulation is overbearing and serves to mainly benefit incumbents, who have the resources will be able to spend time on this, while startups that are resource constrained will be slowed down significantly.

Now, onto business

1/ OpenAI has released models that significantly reduce pricing, including a significant cost reduction for GPT-3.5 Turbo. This is wonderful news for startups as it lowers the barrier to start building 

OpenAI has revealed that the pricing per 1000 tokens has been dropped by 5X. Fantastic news, especially in the face of larger regulatory shadows

2/ Apple making moves with Siri? As we approach the release of the Apple Vision Pro, Apple is set to release AI features into Siri with the iOS 18 update.

Specifically, it will be slated as “SiriSummarization”, which is essentially built to improve how Siri summarizes information.

It was always a wonder why Siri has not advanced much in the age of AI- perhaps now’s the time

But hey, maybe it’ll be a flash in the pan.

3/ Early studies find that low skilled workers benefit most from LLMs- in this way, it is a democratizing and decentralizing force-

Specifically, productivity increased 43% for less skilled workers, versus 17% for more skilled workers.

4/ Llama outshines GPT-4? Well, Meta releases Code Llama 70B, and it got 67.8 on the HumanEval benchmark…this actually exceeds GPT-4’s rating of 67.

Epic.

The AI summer (or spring) is only beginning….