NEWS YOU CAN’T MISS

Warning: Your AI Bot May Cause Addiction

OpenAI is sounding the alarm about its new AI voice feature.

• They're worried it's so realistic that people might start forming deep emotional bonds with the AI. 

• During testing, people were saying things like "This is our last day together" to the AI, showing concerning attachment.

Google has just added Gemini Live to its AI assistant where you can have natural, free-flowing conversations.

• Joanna Stern from the Wall Street Journal headlined her review “Google’s Gemini Live AI Sounds So Human, I Almost Forgot It Was a Bot.”

• TechRadar’s Graham Barlow wrote “Finally, I can chat with my phone as if it were a real person.”

Is this the future of productive AI assistants - or a slippery slope to emotional dependence?

My experience: ChatGPT-4 voice is so easy to talk to, I can totally see why people get attached!

TREND ALERT

AI is Getting Cheaper

Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can be costly.

But the good news is that small language models (SLMs) are cheaper and just as effective for many business use cases. Case in point:

• OpenAI's GPT-4o mini, Google’s Gemma, Microsoft’s Phi-3, and Elon Musk’s Grok-2 mini are all lightweight and dramatically cheaper models than LLMs.

So when should you use an LLM vs. SLM?

• Use LLMs for applications that require a broad understanding of language and context, e.g., advanced customer service chatbots or content creation.

• Use SLMs for focused applications where the depth of understanding required is less extensive, e.g., internal documentation chatbots or sentiment analysis tools.

Make sure your AI team is providing a justification for which Generative AI model they are using. At my consulting firm Addo AI, we help clients find affordable AI solutions.

WOMAN IN TECH

Meet Lisa Su, CEO of AMD

Celebrating this week's Woman in Tech 🥳: Meet Dr. Lisa Su, the CEO and Chair at AMD—the semiconductor company that she led from near-bankruptcy to claiming a spot on the Fortune 500 list, even overtaking long-time competitor Intel.

Born in Taiwan, Su has an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT.

She joined AMD in 2012. Under her leadership, AMD’s share price grew from $3 to $140, and the company is now valued at almost $230 billion.

Her career trajectory:

• In 1995, she joined IBM, where she led R&D operations and helped design chips that ran 20% faster by switching from aluminium to copper circuitry

• In 2007, she joined Freescale Semiconductor as CTO, where she oversaw the company's R&D

• In 2012, she was hired by AMD, where she introduced the now market-leading Zen CPU architecture. At AMD, she became the first woman to top The Associated Press' survey of CEOs’ compensation.

Today, Su is one of just 26 self-made American women billionaires, alongside Oprah Winfrey and former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg. 😎

Su has published more than 40 technical articles and has won awards like the Robert N. Noyce Medal by the IEEE (2021).

Fun fact: NVIDIA and AMD are two of the biggest companies in the chips space today, and their Taiwanese-American CEOs Jensen Huang and Dr. Lisa Su are first cousins once removed.