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News Roundup

• Mistral Large 2 Just Dropped - Mistral's open-source powerhouse challenges Meta's Llama 3.1 with advanced multilingual capabilities, strong reasoning performance, and enterprise-focused enhancements.

• OpenAI’s “Rules Based Rewards” - RBR automates some of the fine-tuning process and reduces the time needed to ensure a model produces intended results.

• Senate Passes DEFIANCE Act -Senate passes bill allowing victims to sue creators of nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, signaling growing momentum for AI regulation.

• Synthetic Data Will Degrade Future Models? - The growing presence of AI-generated content on the internet threatens the quality and diversity of training data, potentially leading to degraded performance and model collapse.

Todays Top Story

Reddit is ramping up its efforts to protect its data and generate revenue by blocking search engines and AI bots from accessing recent posts.

Google is currently the only mainstream search engine showing recent Reddit results due to a $60 million deal allowing the company to train its AI model (Gemini) using Reddit’s content.

As AI chatbots flood the internet with content, finding human-generated answers has become more crucial than ever. Many users rely on appending “Reddit” to their searches to find these very responses.

Reddit’s move highlights the growing importance of protecting valuable data in an era where AI models are trained on vast amounts of online content, often without proper compensation or consent.

Tool Spotlight

Investing in Innovation

“AI is a language, and it’s a language that we’ve got to master—to be an employee in the age of AI, you’ve got to be literate, and it’s sort of on you.”

To this point, one F500 healthcare company executive we interviewed suggests that “it’s almost like an absorption into your culture where you let AI augment based on what it does for you.” But, to understand what AI can do for you, you need to become AI literate, otherwise, you may find yourself stumbling around in the dark, pursuing opportunities that appear attractive but are nonetheless futile. 

On the other hand, as we consider how AI literacy may fuel opportunities in the future of work, we must remind ourselves that AI, like all other technologies created by humans, is a tool, and as Paul Marca, VP of Learning and Dean of Ikigai Labs Academy succinctly puts it, “The tool is only going to be as good as the person behind it.”

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