AI Reading for Friday December 20
Altman: Musk is a bully - Business Insider
How OpenAI’s Jerry Tworek found a new way forward for large language models - Fast Company
Google releases a reasoning model - TechCrunch
Google's AI ‘reasoning’ model is fast, cheap, and ‘explicitly shows its thoughts’ - The Verge
Is 2025 the year AI hype hits its limits? - NY Times
Daron Acemoglu thinks AI is overhyped, widespread adoption will be slow. - Fast Company
0.5% boost per year to productivity and growth is not nothing, and could be 1%. He is probably closer to the truth then the millennialist techbros who want to spend trillions because superintelligent AGI will cure cancer and whatnot. Disrupting existing systems and solutions comes with costs. Also, you can automate the bus driver’s job but you need eg remote drivers to deal with problems AI can’t solve, you need more security to patrol the bus lanes and buses.
Apple urged to remove new AI feature after falsely summarizing news reports - CNN
Oklo signs contracts for 12 GW of nuclear power with data center operator. - CNBC
Puts the notion of a DJI ban in context. Imagine if all the DJI drones were activated to do nefarious stuff LOL.
"Unless we pursue AI carefully, the Nobel committee will one day give a Peace Prize to the people cleaning up its terrible consequences, just as it did with nuclear physics" - Scientific American
AI OnlyFans is officially a thing. - Washington Post
For one thing, ridiculously perfect AI-generated women seem likely to put a lot of adult content creators out of business. Maybe one of the first industries to get fully virtualized and AI-ified? For another, the prospect of a YouTube-style extremism doom loop dynamic, but with increasingly weird fetish content, is concerning.
Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation led by Thrive - TechCrunch
AI to spot warning signs in blood tests - Yahoo News
The tragedy of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji puts 'Death by LLM' in the spotlight - Business Insider
An open-source Alexa that answers to Hey Jarvis - The Verge
Some crazy physics demos from Genesis, which lets robots train in a simulated environment - genesis-embodied-ai.github.io
Training robots 430,000 times faster than reality in physics sims. - Ars Technica
Eric Schmidt did a Washington Post Live on AI - YouTube
Anthro-apology demanded for AI artwork - Creative Bloq
A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks - Distill
Nvidia’s caught in the crossfire between the US and China - NY Times
NYT on 'peak data' - NY Times
When you give Grandma Advanced Voice Mode and she starts asking about life after death. - Upworthy
I showed a friend Advanced Voice Mode and she started asking questions she gets from her autistic daughter who has no filter and it was a bit disturbing. Also I learned Lego is really big with people who are on the spectrum.
Marc Lore, ghost kitchens + delivery + AI + health monitoring - New York Post
Waymo claimed to do better than humans at avoiding accidents, injuries and property damage - The Verge
AI and Big Tech companies are bigly looking to hire Trumpkins and Muskovites for policy teams. - The Information
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