April 2024 Reading

Top posts or links I've come across:
Meta’s battle with ChatGPT begins now
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI is now “the most intelligent AI assistant” that’s available for free.
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Poe - Fast, Helpful AI Chat
Poe lets you ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations with AI. Gives access to GPT-4, gpt-3.5-turbo, Claude from Anthropic, and a variety of other bots.

The State of Generative AI, 2024
A nuanced analysis and a glimpse of the future

Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why.
And that’s a problem. Figuring it out is one of the biggest scientific puzzles of our time and a crucial step towards controlling more powerful future models.

Minds of machines: The great AI consciousness conundrum
Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious.
