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title: "AI round-up: Week of Sept. 18th"
description: See what’s what around the world of AI from the week of September 18th.
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# [AI round-up: Week of Sept. 18th](https://www.akhia.com/insights/benthinking/ai-round-up-week-of-sept-18th)

 Written by [Ben Brugler](https://www.akhia.com/insights/benthinking/author/ben-brugler) | Sep 21, 2023 4:12:29 PM

“I felt that privately a lot of corporate leaders I talked to wanted [a pause] but they were trapped in this race to the bottom against each other. So no company can pause alone.”

[Max Tegmark on the ‘race to the bottom’](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/21/ai-focused-tech-firms-locked-race-bottom-warns-mit-professor-max-tegmark). When Max talks, we should listen. (FYI – he was the guy who proposed the six-month pause letter.)

**From the Shelly Palmer blog. Yep. This IS huge.**

## News:

**September 20 from Reuters:** [Broadcom falls on reports Google discussed dropping firm as AI chip supplier](https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-discussed-dropping-broadcom-ai-chips-supplier-the-information-2023-09-21/)

**September 20 from OpenAI:** [DALL-E 3 is here](https://openai.com/dall-e-3)

**September 19 from The Verge:** [Google’s Bard can now access Google Apps to find answers](https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23878999/google-bard-ai-chatbot-gmail-docs-drive-extensions)

**September 18 from Android Police:** [Google’s ChatGPT Competitor (Gemini) is Around the Corner](https://www.androidpolice.com/google-gemini-ai-around-the-corner/)

**September 16 from WSJ (need subscription):** [The Executive Trying to Make Microsoft Smarter About AI](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-ai-artificial-intelligence-kevin-scott-b8954ff1?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)

**September 14 from WSJ (need subscription):** [Is That a Model or AI?](https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/ai-models-levis-nars-influencers-8cab8ba5)

→You won’t be able to tell. Did we just pass the Turing Test?

**September 12 from Business Insider:** [ChatGPT diagnosed a four-year-old’s mysterious disease after 17 doctors failed](https://www.insider.com/chatgpt-diagnose-child-disease-tethered-cord-syndrome-doctors-2023-9)

→I missed this one last week … but I’m sure you’ll forgive me when you read the story.

## The ‘say what, now?’ story of the week:

**September 21 from CNN:** [Alexa … it’s alive!!! So long, robotic voice. Amazon’s voice assistant gets more human-like with generative AI](http://cnn.com/2023/09/20/tech/amazon-alexa-human-like-generative-ai/index.html)

→Because “Alexa, let’s have a conversation” isn’t creepy.

## Perspectives:

**September 21 from Arch Daily:** [Who will design the future? Architects vs. AI](https://www.archdaily.com/1006681/architects-vs-ai-who-will-design-the-future)

**September 20 from CNBC:** [Billionaire investor says AI will greatly disrupt our lives in the next year. And we should be excited about and scared of it.](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/20/billionaire-ray-dalio-ai-will-greatly-disrupt-our-lives-within-a-year.html)

**September 21 from Wired:** [Confessions of a Viral AI Writer](https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-viral-ai-writer-chatgpt/)

“I’m not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.”

## Resources:

**September 17 from The Shelly Palmer Blog:** [Can you name the top 10 GenAI Apps?](https://shellypalmer.com/2023/09/can-you-name-the-top-10-genai-apps/?mc_cid=495c819bb8&mc_eid=3842841185)

→Well, here are the top 50

**September 15 from SEJ:** [What we know about Google’s Gemini—so far.](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-gemini-what-we-know-so-far/496494/)

*You will want to bookmark these:*

**From CNET:** [AI glossary – basic terms you should know](https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/ai-glossary-basic-terms-all-chatgpt-users-should-know/)

**From the U.S. Copyright Office**: [Copyright and AI resource center.](https://copyright.gov/ai/)

**From Nieman Lab**: [AP and AI. Positioning and AP Stylebook updates.](https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/08/not-a-replacement-of-journalists-in-any-way-ap-clarifies-standards-around-generative-ai/)

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