AI Reading for Friday March 15, 2024
Economic growth without superfluous people. Yay! - FT
“There will be only two types of jobs in the future: those that tell machines what to do and those that are told by machines what to do”
OpenAI's Mira Murati was widely mocked for being seemingly unaware of whether Sora was trained on YouTube videos - Gary Marcus
From chatbots to AI agents that don't tell you how to do something but actually do them. - WIRED
Is Figure the new Skynet? Or should we all just chill? - GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
Former head of Oculus reviews and discusses the Apple Vision Pro at length - Hugo's Blog
Huang wishes Stanford students "ample doses of pain and suffering" because what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. - Business Insider
Apple bought 32 AI startups in 2023, seemingly acquihired Darwin AI. - CNET
The debate over 'open AI'. - Bloomberg
Truly open means the model and the parameters and the data and code for training are available. Grok doesn't qualify nor most models, even ones that call themselves. There’s a mega-boom in ‘open source’ companies that are SaaS companies with a fig leaf of an open source claim on an uber-nerfed version, to pretend that someone could fork it if the paid version jacked up prices Computer Associates-style. Anyway, Musk is full of it but you already knew that.
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