By guest author: Nielo Wait, VRZ Champions LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielo/ YouTube: Slopfiction Caveat: These ideas were articulated with the assistance of artificial intelligence — barely legal em dashes and all. Two AIs walk into a bar. Bartender: “Sorry, we don’t serve minors.” As the western AI begins to litigate, the eastern AI forks the bartender, open-sources the quantized version, and shouts, "The next round is on me!" USA, run by lawyers, is trying to legislate its way into AI dominance. China, run by engineers, is shipping fast, hard-coding its own vision of what AI should be. Both are building futures. But the difference in approach is already warping the GenAI landscape — and who gets to shape it. That’s the frame: GenAI isn’t good or bad. It’s just barely legal . Not in the smirking, R-rated LoRa sense. In the sense that the rulebook doesn’t exist yet, the court cases are unresolved, the ethics are wea...
When humans talk to themselves (raising my own hand here!), other humans cast a side-eye. When AI does it, it’s heralded as the Next Big Thing. The past two weeks saw the rise of AutoGPT and similar apps, called "AI agents”. AutoGPT has so far garnered the most attention, so we’ll focus on that one. (Another name you may come across often is BabyAGI.) AutoGPT was created by Toran Bruce Richards, a game designer. And now, like mirrors within mirrors in the dazzling game of illusion that is AI, people are already building apps on top of the agents, too. But what even is an agent (except for, a bit worryingly, the guardians of the virtual world in The Matrix movies)? What is an AI agent? In computer science, an "agent" is a program that functions independently and continuously to perform various tasks. These could include archiving computer files or retrieving electronic messages on a scheduled bas...