AI Reading for Friday August 2
Google Gemini 1.5 Pro leaps ahead in AI race, challenging GPT-4o - VentureBeat
Watch Gemma 2b, which beats GPT 3.5-turbo in human evals, running fast on an iPhone. - X (formerly Twitter)
Google adds AI stuff to BigQuery and Looker. - TechCrunch
ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode out there blowing minds. Seems like you will be able to do alot of this on-device. - VentureBeat
More demos - The Verge
Grassley calls for OpenAI to show it does not silence whistleblowers or staff who call for better safety. - Washington Post
Semiconductors are cyclical you say? and shortages lead to overinvestment which leads to oversupply? who knew? - Business Insider
Music AI startups say their training is fair use. I say, it's only rock'n'roll if I like it. - The Verge
Can probably tell some by their haircuts and makeup and skin color tho. I dunno, this guy’s haircut looks either ultra-fash or ultra-gay, they kind of horseshoe back together.
Creators of Stable Diffusion launch their own startup and gen AI image creation model. - VentureBeat
Stability AI launched a text-to-3d-model model - VentureBeat
DOJ probes an Nvidia acquisition - Politico
People are lobbying for antitrust action against Nvidia's leveraging of CUDA and its software platform to create a bit of a monopoly. - The Register
Robo-dentist performs first operation on human. - New Atlas
Toothbrush AI as a service. who asked for this - Ars Technica
Could you train an AI to make your own end-of-life decisions and tell people what you want when you are unable to do it on your own? - MIT Technology Review
The inventor of the word 'robot' had a satirical novel about 'newts' with lessons for us about AI assistants. - The Economist
LangChain released a GUI IDE for LangGraph, which I think makes a ton of sense, low-code AI workflows can do a ton of stuff. - LangChain Blog
Amazon robots on patrol - X (formerly Twitter)
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