Pivot to AI

Pizza and wood glue optional. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/16/cjr-llms-are-still-really-bad-search-engines/ CJR 2025 report:  https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php BBC on wood glue and rocks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o CJR 2024 report: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/how-chatgpt-misrepresents-publi...

Your helpful AI backseat gamer pal! Official Xbox Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoUDVNjDUSw Microsoft on Copilot for Games: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/03/13/new-copilot-for-gaming-save-time-help-get-good/ Microsoft on Muse: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/02/19/muse-ai-xbox-empowering-creators-and-players/ Previously: Google's AI-generated Doom rigged demo:  https://pivot-to-ai.c...

The White House wants ideas for its AI Action Plan. And oh boy, does OpenAI have a wishlist! Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/14/openai-asks-the-us-government-for-the-moon-on-a-stick/ White House request for comment:  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/02/public-comment-invited-on-artificial-intelligence-action-plan/ OpenAI response:  https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai...

We're sure OpenAI would never abuse this level of access to the heart of government so it could lobby by chatbot. Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/13/foi-reveals-uk-science-secretary-peter-kyle-cribs-chatgpt-for-advice/ New Scientist gets the FOI:  https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472068-revealed-how-the-uk-tech-secretary-uses-chatgpt-for-policy-advice/ PoliticsHome interview: https://ww...

You want me to write your whole function for you? Git gud, scrub. Text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/12/cursor-ai-assistant-tells-vibe-coder-learn-to-code/ Cursor forum post: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-told-me-i-should-learn-coding-instead-of-asking-it-to-generate-it-limit-of-800-locs/61132/3 Kevin Roose on vibe coding: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/technology/personaltech/vibecodin...

OpenAI wants to go full for-profit. This is already hitting legal roadblocks. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/11/openais-for-profit-plan-is-in-trouble/ Ruling (PDF):  https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.433688/gov.uscourts.cand.433688.121.0.pdf Previously: OpenAI's weird corporate structure: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/11/18/pivot-to-ai-replacing-s...

Oh, that's where all these incredibly bad press releases are coming from. The AI is for spam. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/10/lets-write-pr-pitches-with-an-ai-report-spam-block-sender/ MuckRack's AI pitchbot:  https://muckrack.com/blog/2024/10/16/using-ai-pitch-generator You have to pitch to the LLMs now: https://www.swordandthescript.com/2025/01/llms-new-front-page/ How to pitch...

Nature tells us how scientific peer review is so much easier when you fob it off to an AI. And you can earn cryptos! Every scientist wants that, right? Text versions: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/08/science-journal-nature-promotes-using-chatbots-for-academic-peer-review/ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/09/scientific-peer-review-by-ai-with-its-own-cryptocurrency-as-promoted-in-nature/ Nature on...

What if we made a search engine so good that our company name became the verb for searching? And then — get this — we replaced the search engine with a robot with a concussion? So far it's just for Gemini Premium. So far. Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/07/oops-all-ai-google-replaces-search-with-the-ai-overview/ Google blog: https://blog.google/products/search/ai-mode-search/ Ed Zitr...

Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever's new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has developed "super intelligence." Nice work if you can get it. This is a pilot video to see how this channel might go. text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-rele...