AI Reading for Friday June 28
OpenAI's advanced voice mode leaked out to some users. - Tom's Guide
ChatGPT partners with news sites only to send users to 404 pages. - Nieman Lab
OpenAI uses GPT-4 to train GPT-4. Feel the AGI bootstrapping itself. - OpenAI
Character.ai adds an advanced voice mode to talk to your ‘assistant’. - ReadWrite
What AI voices like Samantha's tell us about social roles men and women are expected to play. - NY Times
I think I remember a study that noted that MTA pre-recorded announcements with female voices tended to be informational and persuasive, while male voices tended to be used for commands like ‘stand clear of the closing doors’.
Customer service chatbot lies and says it's human, which seems a bit fraudulent. - WIRED
Vestager says Apple's decision to not launch AI in Europe is effectively an admission of anticompetitive behavior. - www.euractiv.com
Reddit draws a line in the sand against AI scrapers. - The Verge
Zuck did a podcast, said some stuff about AI. - YouTube
Federal Reserve IT leader has a fairly expansive view of AI benefits. - Risk.net
How investment advisers need to adopt AI. - FT
Using AI at work makes us feel lonelier, more neurotic, and drink more. - Harvard Business Review
AI-generated stuff has artifacts that the untrained brain detects, but hasn't learned to associate with AI-generated content yet. - Neuroscience News
Illia Polosukhin of the 'Transformer 8' sits down for a CNBC interview. - CNBC
A Wired article about Polosukhin. - WIRED
Hebbia, which is popular among NY financial firms, raises $100m from VCs including a16z. - TechCrunch
Bill Gates says AI will help reduce energy consumption, don't go overboard and throw out the baby with the bathwater. - the Guardian
IBM uses AI in DB2 for query optimization. - The Register
New movie de-ages Tom Hanks and Robin Wright with AI. - Futurism
Does AI raise beauty standards to where photoshopped supermodels can't even compete any more? - CNN
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