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\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Taming Silicon Valley: How to Protect Our Jobs, Safety, and Society in the Age of AI<\/a><\/em> by Gary Marcus. Having occasionally read the author\u2019s AI-focused newsletter<\/a>, I picked this up to get myself up to speed ahead of a presentation on Generative AI that I was due to give to one of our company boards. It was put together in a hurry<\/a> and the result itself is a quick read. I agree with pretty much everything in the book, but there wasn\u2019t much new for someone that has been following the progress of Generative AI closely since the release of ChatGPT a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Taming Silicon Valley: How to Protect Our Jobs, Safety, and Society in the Age of AI by Gary Marcus. Having occasionally read the author\u2019s AI-focused newsletter, I picked this up to get myself up to speed ahead of a presentation on Generative AI that I was due to give to one of […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10093,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/09\/its-all-ai-all-the-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":11322,"position":0},"title":"It\u2019s all AI, all the time","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"9 May 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"All my feeeds seem to be full of reflections on the inevitability of the changes that will soon be brought about by artificial intelligence. 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