AI Reading for Friday July 12

OpenAI scheduled the GPT-4o launch before making it available to safety testers, who got a week to rubber-stamp it. - Washington Post

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OpenAI research defines five 'levels' for AI to reach human intelligence, says it's currently almost at level 2 - Quartz

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Employee who left OpenAI says he asked himself, was the path that OpenAI was on more like the Apollo program or more like the Titanic? - Business Insider

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OpenAI says AI model costs will continue to decrease as adoption surges - VentureBeat

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Nobody knows how LLMs work but some people are trying to figure it out. - The Economist

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Academia is vastly outgunned by Big Tech on compute-intensive research. - WSJ

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AI is in the house for latest season of Big Brother. I'm not sure what I just read, but I think they are going with an AI theme and had AI design the ugliest house possible. - EW.com

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Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated, they can't reason from first principles or extrapolate much beyond circumstances encountered in training - MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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AI and politics earthquake fault lines intersect in Silicon Valley. - FT

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Tech winners from Trump’s 2024 platform: crypto, AI and Elon Musk. - Washington Post

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AI will be good for everyone, and save billions of pounds, so spend a lot on AI and data centers, advises an AI - Cointelegraph

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One of the 'Transformer Seven' uses AI to make RNA drugs that reprogram the body. - CNBC

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Kaiser Permanente moves to real-time, continuous data collection with next-gen wearables and AI tools. - VentureBeat

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Journaling + AI for mental health and suicide prevention. - Fast Company

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How the Rise of Artificial Intelligence Could Rock the Vote - CNET

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A.I.’s Insatiable Appetite for Energy - NY Times

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AI lets pregnant women in Africa get ultrasounds without a specialist. - the Guardian

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Mark Cuban as Gemini pitchman. - YouTube

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Apple is still looking for a killer app for the Apple Vision Pro, pace of app releases is falling. - FT

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AI tech lets customers create custom fragrances. - New York Post

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South Korean beauty company lets customers create custom cosmetics with AI - Reuters

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25% of music producers now use AI despite strong resistance. - Music Business Worldwide

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K-pop experiments with AI. - BBC

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Senate holds hearings on privacy as AI ups the ante, not a lot of media take notice. - R Street

Senate also looks at deepfakes, calls for standards on content watermarks and provenance certifications, which is good actually. Can always be removed, so provenance is more important, like a digital signature ledger that says it came from this camera and these people modified it with these tools. - Decrypt

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Softbank acquires UK AI chip startup Graphcore. - TechCrunch

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When the software is a Potemkin village that looks perfect for the boss while it doesn't work for everyone else. (In fairness, sometimes you just want to figure out how to make one thing work right and then how to make it work everywhere) - Business Insider

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Google uses Gemini to build talking robots that can navigate its offices. - TechCrunch

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Tesla delays its much-hyped robotaxi rollout, shares drop. - Bloomberg

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Perplexity announced plans to share revenues with publishers whose links it cites. - VentureBeat

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Giant forehead throws $50k grant at an AI bot, 'Pliny the Prompter' attempts to con it without success. - Decrypt

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AI to monitor urban environments, transportation systems, manage them via control rooms and enforcement. - FinSMEs

Maybe you'll be able to call 311 and an AI can look at video monitoring or dispatch a robot vehicle to check out the problem.

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Lighting the Las Vegas Sphere with 150 Nvidia GPUs and enough watts to power 21,000 homes. - pcgamer

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UCSD teaches robots to dance - TechXplore

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