AI Reading for Friday March 7
Agents so hot right now
SMBs can use AI as their social media manager - CNET
Microsoft's AI agents to help make sales - Gadgets 360
China announces state-backed startup fund, to invest about $7b per year - CNN
(well, in China everything is implicitly state-backed, if it isn't state-backed, you can't do it. but here governments will explicitly take stakes)
Man v. machines in the first humanoid robot half-marathon in Beijing. - Business Insider
In some ways, China is years ahead of the US.
Turing Award winners criticize race to deploy unsafe AI models
Beat ARC-AGI with this one weird trick. - Ars Technica
these puzzles are relatively easy for humans to solve but hard for existing general reasoners, but it turns out spatial image compression can hack the patterns.
ofc the ultimate test for AGI would be creating un-hackable AGI benchmarks.
The Labor Theory of AI | Ben Tarnoff - The New York Review of Books
Teaching AI models to screw up less is a growing side hustle for the young and educated - Forbes
AI art at the Guggenheim Bilbao - Creative Boom
How creatives adopt AI - Fast Company
Google Shopping adds AI features like virtual try-on - Gadgets 360
Google Messages Rolls Out AI Scam Detection for Android Users - MEDIANAMA
AI to identify your writing by its stylistic quirks - Hacker Noon
AI drones in Ukraine seen 2x or 3x more likely to successfully hit targets. - Business Insider
Killer drone startup Shield raises at $5.3b valuation - Bloomberg
Palantir delivers AI-packed trucks to serve command posts in the field, powering mobile situation rooms - Bloomberg
Politico Launches AI Tool to Generate Bespoke Policy Reports - AdWeek
(do they use AI to dumb everything down even further?)
You can now call up Grok in a Xitter thread by @mentioning it - TechCrunch
A quick explanation of diffusion models - Nikhil R
Broadcom posts an earnings beat - Business Insider
"I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft" - the Guardian
Gen AI benchmarks value imitation and conformity over innovation - VentureBeat
Seems like a feature and not a bug. Models have to be able to match a known truth first, and it’s hard for a benchmark to evaluate a novel result, and it’s better if we keep humans in control for a while.
DuckDuckGo adds AI features - CNET
Browser Use enables AI to control your browser, the poor man's Operator - MUO
ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code - TechCrunch
State Department uses AI to deport students deemed to be Hamas supporters - Axios
$20.4 million for AI to personalize cancer treatments. - TechCrunch
Let AI plan your trip to NYC - NY Times
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