Hello to all and to all a good morning! Finally got more snow (and lots of rain)! Maybe the mountains will be less of an icy hellscape this weekend.

Apple drops plans for self driving car to focus more on generative AI 🤖

After the long slog to research, develop, and commercialize an electric vehicle, Apple’s Project Titan has finally been shelved. Ultimately, existing teams and resources are being funnelled back into generative AI, aligning with CEO Tim Cook’s statement that the company is “investing significantly” in it with an AI-related announcement to come from the company later this year.

More and more companies jump on the AI training data gravy train 🤑

As machine-generated content takes over the internet, the value of human-generated content then skyrockets through the roof. With Reddit recently brokering a $60 million per year deal with Alphabet (Google’s parent company) to allow them to use the user generated content on the site to train their models, other companies have also perked up to the profitability of human-generated content, with Tumblr and Wordpress seeking to follow the Reddit playbook and cash out on this opportunity.

With this trend, however, the discussion over rights to one’s own web-related content springs forth yet again, bringing the age old adage of “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” back to the forefront of our minds.

Lightning Round

• OpenAI claims the New York Times “hacked” ChatGPT to set them up for a lawsuit.

• Google DeepMind releases an AI model that can generate interactive games!

Quick Tips

• Crafting prompts for LLMs is half the battle to get good results. Use something like the newly released Microsoft Copilot Notebook to get help with your prompts and find out how to improve them!