AI Reading for Friday June 7
Silicon Valley is in a bit of an uproar over a proposed AI bill. - Bloomberg
Bill seems to be backed by Musk and handicaps Meta's ability to release open source models because they might be liable for what people downstream use it for. - Semafor
Maybe people who make AI models should be liable for foreseeable harms. But Alibaba's Qwen2 has near-parity with Llama3 on HuggingFace, so you need national and international agreements. Today they will be used for deepfakes and spam and malware, but soon they will generate nuke blueprints.
Regulation of The Thing Eating The World is hard actually. Is there an AI for that?
Larry Lessig on AI whistleblower open letter. - CNN
Meta plans to train its AI on all your old Facebook data, raising eyebrows (Instagram and WhatsApp content too?) - Business Insider
Instagram labels real photos as AI-generated. - DIY Photography
An AI cartoon may interview for your next job, or for interview practice LOL. - WIRED
Have your robot avatar talk to their robot avatar. - Newsweek
Watch 19 Terrifying Men With Extra Teeth and Fingers on Prime Video. - Men’s Journal
Microsoft's system-level AI upscaling. - Neowin
Monitors to also offer upscaling. - CreativeBlog
Q&A with Bellingcat's founder, what is OSI when everything is fake. - WIRED
Drake samples an Udio AI-generated song that dunked on him. - Fortune
TSMC May sales rose 30% from a year ago. - Bloomberg
A list of what Apple might announce next week - MacRumors
Nvidia can't ship H100s to ByteDance but ByteDance can still rent H100s in the Oracle cloud. - The Information
Humane allegedly still seeking $1b in 'fire sale' as charging cases combust. - Engadget
Actor turned tech investor Ashton Kutcher says Sora is just great, gets flak. - IndieWire
AI for automated pentesting? - arXiv.org
On Huggingface leaderboard it’s a tiny bit behind Llama-3, will be interesting to see if people improve on it.
Musk: eff this shit, I'm out! - The Verge
Isn't his net worth sort of tied to Tesla tho? Do his shareholders think his antics suck?
Wix lets small businesses ship a mobile app by describing it in plain English and letting AI do the rest. - TechCrunch
But is it a good app, and do people care?
Mollick: how to do stuff with AI
Humanoid robot scampers on the Great Wall of China - Interesting Engineering
Raising a kid in NY is getting ridiculous. - TikTok
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