My first 2 letters got very mixed feedback. On Medium, I got an insightful comment, and on WhatsApp, my friend told me, “You are writing, which feels like philosophy.” But I am not exactly writing philosophy.
I am trying to explore things with the help of the past and by observing the future.
From this letter, I will try to follow a structure that starts with telling you a very quick summary of the latest AI and tech updates with, of course, the fusion of law, and then in the second and core body of the letter, I will focus on the subject.
Then, in the end, I will share with you the content — whatever it is, like a book, video, podcast, article, or film. Hope you like this format for this letter. I believe this will be able to add more value and help you to be curious and unstuck yourself.
AI and Tech News:
- This week we saw many interesting things around AI, like a 74-year-old man in New York attempting to represent himself in court using an AI-generated avatar, which is interesting to see in visual proceedings.
- There is other news around how people are using AI avatars for getting jobs. The copyright case between ANI and OpenAI is still going, and the court is listening to the argument on the fair use doctrine. Let’s see what result will come.
- OpenAI and Elon Musk’s legal matter is taking another level because OpenAI is suing Elon for a malicious campaign against them.
- In the end, Google has introduced the Agent Development Kit (ADK), an open-source framework designed to simplify the creation, management, and deployment of multi-agent systems. It is interesting to see how this open-source framework will attract developers. All AI updates for this week. As AI and tech are continuously evolving, I will come with more updates next week.
Captcha and AI
Whenever we visit any website, they ask for verification of whether we are human or a bot, and we all use our human brains to solve that captcha and access the website. But what makes the captcha an identifier to find humans and bots?
This might be the level of reasoning or understanding that human brains are able to solve but a computer can’t.
But after the emergence of AI, things started changing. Now AI is challenging that identifier and making it difficult to find the difference between human and AI.
I don’t want to go into a lot of detail about the history of CAPTCHA-how Luis puzzled the word and made it a properly structured puzzle to solve, which was used by Yahoo in their email system and many websites to stop bots from accessing information and to find the real analytics of humans on the internet.
Humans are used to solving difficult puzzles, but now many researchers are claiming that CAPTCHA, which humans are solving, is going into the data training of these large models and making them smarter.
So we are the ones who are making the AI more smart. Now we have multiple types of captchas, like image and audio captchas, but what happens when AI hires a human worker from TaskRabbit to solve a captcha?
The Alignment Research Center did an experiment in which AI hired a worker from TaskRabbit to solve a captcha. You can see from this example how much agency AI has and how it can control human beings-that’s the topic of another day.
When AI is able to solve CAPTCHA, how will we save our websites from bots? Big giants are recommending biometric verifications, but that’s a complete invasion of privacy.
But still, we don’t have proper ways of protecting our websites from bots. At least for now, we need to make solutions for it. In my last letter, I wrote about what will happen when bots are talking with bots.
This situation is something like the death of the internet, at least for humans. I don’t want to comment-at least now-on how AI is going to change our internet surfing experience.
Like now, many people are not using Google Search and are shifting to AI. In a similar way, we will see how AI will change the experience of internet surfing and how websites will be able to protect themselves from bots because even advertisers want human analytics for running advertisements.
What I am reading
Book: I am reading multiple books. These days I am reading Franz Kafka, and in my future letters, I will tell you interesting stories by linking them with AI.
Articles: I read so many articles. One article you should read is Frontier AI Ethics by Seth Lazar, who discusses the ethics of AI and what ethics should be for artificial intelligence.
Podcast: I am listening to Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast with Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo, which is an excellent podcast that discusses the 2027 intelligence explosion, and it’s a 3-hour-long podcast that discusses a month-by-month model.
Movies: I am not watching any particular movie this week.
So, thanks for reading my letter, and I hope you like it. I will be back next week with another interesting piece. Till then, keep reading me on LinkedIn, X, Threads, or Medium. You will find different versions of me on different platforms, but in the core, storytelling will always be there.
This post is handcrafted with love and not AI-generated, though grammar editing has been done.
Originally published at https://ashutoshtales.substack.com.