AI reading for April 22

Gemini 1.5 arrives in latest Chatbot Arena, trails OpenAI and Claude by statistically significant but likely practically meaningless margin. Llama-3 now tied for #6, oddly scores well below Mixtral on HuggingFace automated benchmark leaderboard but thumps it in head-to-head human comparisons.

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Llama 3 becoming available in cloud services. - Amazon Web Services

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Perplexity achieves unicorn status. - Bloomberg

Seems like a no-brainer for Facebook or Apple to make a play for Perplexity or put that functionality in their core apps.

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Meta Ray-Bans get multimodal AI. - The Verge

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Apple reportedly develops custom AI server silicon. - MacRumors

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Apple acquires edge AI company. - 9to5Mac

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Gurman says Apple will ship an edge LLM in iOS 18. - MacRumors

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Adobe updating Firefly and bringing more AI features to Photoshop, including a text-to-image chat model. - Axios

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AI red-teamer tests AIs, or can be used to circumvent guardrails. - livescience.com

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Prompt tuning library from Microsoft. Give it some data, some metric, and an LLM to generating prompts, and it will fine-tune your prompt. - GitHub

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AI trained on heart data predicts atrial fibrillation 30 minutes before it happens. - New Atlas

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AI links gut bacteria to Alzheimers and other diseases. - Neuroscience News

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Nurses protest AI. - NBC Bay Area

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Japan looks at dedicated routes for driverless trucks. - The Reg

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Waymo gets a bit aggressive during a large 'bike' ride. - reddit

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The AI that detects shoplifters. Better than detectives following people maybe, but need to talk about false positives. - Business Insider

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Using gen-AI fror gene editing. Definitely seems like the plot of a horror flick. - NY Times

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BCG will get 20% of revenues from AI this year.

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Suleyman: fruit you must not pick from the tree of knowledge: 1) Autonomy 2) Recursive self-improvement 3) Self-replication

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Suleyman’s Ted video - YouTube

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See also Daniela Rus on robotics - YouTube

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