Today's Hallucination HQOpenAI's Pre-IPO Glow-Up Includes a Transformer Legend and a Washington InsiderOpenAI is assembling quite the guest list before going public. In a single week, they've recruited Noam Shazeer — co-inventor of the Transformer architecture that underpins essentially all modern AI, poached from Google DeepMind — alongside Dean Ball, former Trump administration AI policy official. Hiring the man who helped invent the engine and someone who helped write the rulebook, all in one week. Subtle as ever. Source: TechCrunch
Adobe Adds a Chatbot to Photoshop, Whether You Asked Nicely or NotAdobe is rolling out conversational AI assistants across its Creative Cloud suite — Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator — letting users edit via chat rather than, say, learning where the buttons are. You can now describe what you want and watch the software attempt it, which is either empowering or a gentle suggestion that skill is optional. Designers who spent years mastering these tools may find the experience spiritually interesting. Source: The Verge
Amazon Wants to Sell You the Chips It Built to Stop Buying Nvidia's ChipsAWS is in talks to sell its proprietary AI chips — designed originally to reduce Amazon's staggering dependence on Nvidia — directly to other data centres. CEO Andy Jassy estimates this represents a $50 billion opportunity. There is something beautifully circular about building chips to escape a monopoly, then immediately trying to become one. Nvidia, presumably, is watching with the calm of a company that has seen this before. Source: TechCrunch
The Man Who Has Been Running His Life on a Brain Implant for Three YearsCasey Harrell has ALS, is paralysed, and cannot speak coherently without his brain-computer interface. He has now used one for nearly three years — long enough that researchers call him the technology's "first power user," which is both a remarkable scientific milestone and the most understated job title in medicine. His case is being studied closely, as it represents genuinely useful data on long-term viability of implants in real human lives. Extraordinary, full stop. Source: MIT Technology Review
Turns Out AI Doesn't Have a Personality — It Just Has a Very Consistent Survey StrategyA new paper on arXiv has delivered mildly embarrassing news for anyone who claimed their AI model tests as an INTJ: psychological profiling tools designed for humans produce largely meaningless results when applied to large language models. The instruments measure response patterns, not inner states — and LLMs are, it turns out, quite good at giving consistent answers without having anything resembling a self. The AI isn't introverted. It's just very good at filling in forms. Source: ArXiv AI
The AI has no personality, the chips are chasing Nvidia, and Photoshop now takes requests. Normal Thursday.
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