By AI Guy ⏳ 4 min read

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In Today’s Edition:

📺 No Netflix, No Chill
🏛 AI-tocracy
❓ POLL: AI as savior, destroyer, or both?
🔧 Tools On Your Radar: CM3leon and Air AI

No Netflix, No Chill

In 2020 we all learned the importance of writing plans in pencil not pen. Thank God we had Netflix to distract us from our ever-changing reality. Now, with what’s coming to be known as the writers’ strike of 2023, our security blanket may have to come in the form of something else.

So far, the writer’s strike has changed the production of:

- Interview With the Vampire
- 1923, Season 2
- Abbott Elementary, Season 3
- AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Show
- American Dad, Season 20
- American Horror Story, Season 12
- Andor, Season 2
- Big Mouth, Final Season
- Billions, Final Season
- Blade
- Blade Runner 2099
- BUNK’D, Season 7
- Cobra Kai, Final Season
- Daredevil: Born Again
- Daytime Emmy Awards
- Duster
- Emily in Paris, Season 4
- Étoile
- Euphoria, Season 3
- Evil, Season 4
- FBI: Most Wanted, Season 4
- Family Guy, Season 22
- Good Omens, Season 2
- Good Trouble, Season 5
- Hacks, Season 3
- A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight
- House of the Dragon, Season 2
- Hysteria!
- Interview With the Vampire, Season 2
- Jeopardy!, Season 39
- Late Night Talk Shows: Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Little Sky
- Loot, Season 2
- 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards
- Metropolis
- Outlander, Final Season
- Password, Season 2
- Power Book II: Ghost, Season 4
- Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Season 3
- Pretty Little Liars: Summer School
- P-Valley, Season 3
- RAP SH!T, Season 2
- The Rings of Power, Season 2
- SNL, Season 48
- Severance, Season 2
- Sinking Spring
- Stranger Things, Final Season
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Final Season
- The Last of Us, Season 2
- The Mandalorian, Season 4
- The Old Man, Season 2
- The Penguin
- The Really Loud House, Season 2
- The Talk
- The Venery of Samantha Bird
- 2023 Tony Awards
- Uncoupled, Season 2
- Unstable, Season 2
- The Upshaws, Season 4
- Wonder Man
- While You Were Breeding
- Yellowjackets, Season 3
- You Bet Your Life with Jay Leno
- Zero Day

It's like people don’t appreciate their content being stolen, imagine that. More on that tomorrow.

AI-tocracy

What in the AI does that mean?

Time for a history and English lesson. You’re welcome.

“Cracy” = power. So, democracy means power to the “demo” = people. “Autocracy” means the rule of one. Think automobile – who’s driving the car? One person.

So, the idea behind an “AI-tocracy” is that whatever autocracy controls AI controls the people. We’re talking next-level control, Minority Report style.

But, this is not just a concept, this is a reality for one of the most autocratic governments today: China. It uses AI in the form of surveillance, i.e. facial recognition and weather pattern prediction (yep, there are more riots based on the weather outside), to manage unrest in its provinces. Not only does this boost government control, but it also boosts technological innovation as tech firms that got government contracts had a 49% increase in software production.

This begs the next question …

Who watches the watchmen? And is it a good idea for that much power to be in the hands of the few vs the many? If only history had some noteworthy examples of when too much power was in too few hands …

Poll Time: What’chu Thinkin’?

Tools For Your Radar:
CM3Leon and Air AI

CM3Leon

We’ve talked about the multimodality (image-text capability) of AI last week when we reviewed Bard.

Pretty crazy that you can upload a picture to have it analyzed and processed. No more filling out travel expense forms for your receipts. However, Meta’s CM3Leon takes it a step further with image generation and description.

There’s no public release date yet, like Musk’s xAI, but this is definitely one to keep on eye out for.

More info: https://ai.meta.com/blog/generative-ai-text-images-cm3leon/

Air AI

Air AI is projected to eliminate the pesky human problems of finite and fallible memory, with perfect recall and infinite memory. Say ‘goodbye’ to an extensive sales and customer service departments and ‘hello’ to real, conversational AI. You can’t say it yet, but you will be when it comes soon.

Check them out here: https://www.air.ai/

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Your nerdy cousin,

AI Guy

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