AI Reading for Friday July 26
SearchGPT is real and it’s fabulous - The Verge
People are already highlighting all the stuff SearchGPT gets wrong. - The Atlantic
Sam Altman says alpha voice assistant rollout coming next week. - X (formerly Twitter)
Google DeepMind's latest models kinda sorta take silver at Math Olympiad. I feel a little skeptical but also I think AI in Wolfram Mathematica to help you solve problems will be pretty sick. Over a year ago, Google claimed AlphaCode 2 could win competitive programming contests but the coding assistants in production don’t come close to that.
Move Over, Mathematicians, Here Comes AlphaProof - NY Times
Google releases models for math that it says can solve International Math Olympiad problems - Google on X (formerly Twitter)
China Is Closing the A.I. Gap With the United States - NY Times
AI will destroy the planet is a somewhat overwrought meme, look around you at all the other stuff spewing out vastly more carbon, and AI is the easiest thing to locate where there is cheap renewable power. Also liked this quote: “Koomey cited a brief moment in the mid 1990s when internet data flows doubled every hundred days—a statistic that led to overinvestment in networks in the following years and 97% of fibre capacity sitting unused.”
EC President wants €100 billion over 5 to 7 years for 'CERN for AI' - www.euractiv.com
Morgan Stanley rolls out AI to summarize meetings and auto-gen followups. - WSJ
Slop AI obituaries written for SEO compound survivors' grief. - Fast Company
Scammer attempts to con Ferrari with CEO deepfake spearphish attack. - Bloomberg
FCC advances proposal to require disclosure of AI content in political ads, after FEC action was blocked by GOP. - Courthouse News
Meta tests AI avatars, 'imagine me as an astronaut' - Mashable
Autonomous delivery robot company stock soars after Nvidia reveals investment. - Markets Insider
JPMorgan rolled out an internal LLM suite for asset and wealth managers. - Reuters
Job losses in tech as CEOs fire workers to invest more in AI. - Business Insider
Begun the robot dog wars have - Reddit
Rep. Jennifer Wexton's spoke on the House Floor using ElevenLabs voice. - NPR
Video game actors strike against AI. - AP News
Rogan plays Biden call on air, AI detector says it's AI. - Newsweek
Epitome of entitled midwit bro. At risk of stating the obvious, it's 'Paul is dead' ridiculousness, not 'Dave' or 'Moon Over Parador' or 'Weekend at Bernies', and supposing he did enhance his voice or sign stuff with autopen who cares.
Free Gemini got faster model, more features. - The Verge
Grok originated false info about election, shrugged when alerted to it. - Star Tribune
Lina Khan addresses YC, says she likes open-weight models like Llama. - Business Insider
Musk to discuss a $5b transfer from his 13%-owned publicly held Tesla to his private company with the board, which consists of his brother, James Murdoch, the AirBnB designer, and some nobodies. - Reuters
every so often he just tweets, haha, here's a fraud I'm committing everybody
iFixit says Claude's scraper is rudely ignoring robots.txt and DOSing it - The Verge
Maybe Anthropic needs an AI for that, Claude should be able to figure out stuff like that.
Patients don't trust medical advice it they are told it comes from AI. - Nature
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