October 6, 2028

This week’s episode features Generative AI Tim, standing in for Human Tim who has Covid and sounds awful. Maybe this is how we’ll roll in the future?

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This week’s newsletter focused on two themes.

First, the burgeoning realm of AI agents—technology capable of stringing together separate tasks to complete complex assignments. While the tech is fascinating, the real questions are rooted in culture.

Speaking of AI agents, Shelly Palmer provides two additional definitions—one for SLMs (more secure and specialized LLMs) and one for SAMs (dynamic, autonomous agents) to help illuminate the building blocks of this evolution.

And topic two—AI art and copyright. Jason Allen is back litigating an appeal for his AI-generative art to be considered copyrightable. The argument boils down to “effort,” and where you see that occurring.

Here are two posts [first, second] I wrote about the HeyGen platform and the process of creating the AI facsimile of myself used in this episode.