AI Reading for Friday May 30

Chinese tech groups prepare for AI future without Nvidia - Financial Times

Huang says AI won't take your job, but someone who uses AI effectively might. Other CEOs chime in. - BGR

Some categories of jobs have disappeared due to tech: phone operator, typist etc

CEOs know AI will shrink their teams in some cases 30-40% — they're just too afraid to say it, say 2 software investors - Yahoo Finance

Business Insider fires 21% of staff in AI pivot "away from journalism toward greed" - The A.V. Club

For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here - The New York Times

People who use AI at work are silently judged more lazy, less competent - CNET

OpenAI Aims to Offer AI Access Through ‘Ambient Computer Layer,’ Without Screens - PYMNTS.com

OpenAI risks being undercut by cheaper rivals, says star investor Mary Meeker - Financial Times

Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss - Financial Times

AI generates navigable 3d environments like game levels. - ZDNET

Hugging Face unveils two new open source humanoid robots - TechCrunch

Elephant benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how much AI models suck up to us - MIT Technology Review

GPT-4o displays humanlike commitment and consistency bias, avoids cognitive dissonance, Harvard study finds. - TechXplore

The AI is emitting the most probable tokens conditioned on previous responses, so that probably implies some degree of self-consistency.

Carnegie-Mellon study reveals autonomous coding agents succeed on only 30% of tasks, reinforcing need for human collaboration. - ZDNET

As AI models start exhibiting bad behavior, it's time to start thinking harder about AI safety - Fast Company

AI could consume more power than Bitcoin by the end of 2025. - The Verge

Seems to be doing useful work, unlike crypto, unless you count ransomware and Hawk Tuah rug pulls.

Google’s New A.I.-Powered Search Has Arrived. Proceed With Caution. - The New York Times

Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it's now 2024 - TechCrunch

Firefox will summarize links if you hover and press alt-shift, but it's slow. - TechRadar

Is media coming for AI with a copyright "Napster moment?" - The Hollywood Reporter

TikTok boosts Polish hard right content ahead of elections - Global Witness

"Some of the calls featured a voice that sounded like Wiles, people who heard them said. Government officials think the impersonator used artificial intelligence to imitate Wiles’s voice, some of the people said." - The Wall Street Journal

RFK Jr.‘s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report seems riddled with AI slop, like “oaicite,” a URL marker that OpenAI applies to responses provided by ChatGPT. - The Verge

Reporter: An investigation found the MAHA commission report cites studies that appear not to exist.

Leavitt: I understand there were some formatting issues…It does not negate the substance of the report

Reporter: Is AI used to put together these reports?

Leavitt: I can’t speak to that

Urine-based ML test identified prostate cancer biomarkers more accurately than PSA. - www.darkdaily.com

Palantir AI shows up at Fannie Mae to fight mortgage fraud - The Register

The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code - Sakana AI

Not much info on Tesla's small, invitation-only, geofenced robotaxi launch. - The Verge

This should be a Netflix miniseries, preferably in Korean - Harvard Gazette

After the cataclysmic Event happens that unravels society and sends me scurrying to my luxury bunker, how do I keep my guards loyal? When you know, rule of law and money is no longer a thing?

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