John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Suleyman previously co-founded DeepMind, which Google purchased for life-changing money back in 2014.) Suleyman is a new author – his book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma came out earlier this month (I’ve ordered it, but not yet read it).

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Data Matters

JUNE 9, 2021

The absence of a reference to “medical technology developers/ companies” is notable, as this would capture all the major and emerging players in digital health, such as software developers and “tech giants”.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JANUARY 6, 2019

A decentralised internet sounds offputtingly complicated. But our lives, online and off, now depend upon it Our family got a Google Home Hub for Christmas. As comparative lifestyle Neanderthals, we have so far only used it as a glorified digital picture frame and music player, though this is clearly not what it was built for.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 27, 2014

Exclusive: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M — Re/code. It’s a wild story, but a good example of how we’re all learning to adjust to new technologies that we don’t yet fully understand. (It’s kind of how I imagined Her anyway, as this perfectly suited algorithmic “other.”)

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

New technologies have started innumerable economic revolutions, and the pace of change continues to accelerate. The rapid evolution of technology and growth in the digital economy has led to a vast increase in the availability and value of data. What if, say, Google DeepMind got hold of NHS data and its algorithms were used with bias?

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As hypothesized in a March 2022 paper from Deepmind and subsequently demonstrated by models from Meta (as well as other open source models, like those from France-based Mistral), training smaller models on more data yields greater performance than training larger models with fewer data.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2023

built for public benefit could be tailor-made for those use cases where technology can best help democracy. A public option LLM would provide a vital independent source of information and a testing ground for technological choices with big democratic consequences. could do more than check technology companies’ honesty.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

2024 thus stands to be a pivotal year for the future of AI, as researchers and enterprises seek to establish how this evolutionary leap in technology can be most practically integrated into our everyday lives. The evolution of generative AI has mirrored that of computers, albeit on a dramatically accelerated timeline. households. [iv]

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