AI Reading for Friday November 29
Happy holiday weekend in the US!
How will AI shape humans through evolutionary adaptation? Smaller brains? Less social circuitry? - Phys.org
Panasonic trains AI on its founder's prolific writings. - The Register
AI assistant to help businesses select software - Yahoo Finance
Raimondo and the Biden Administration are giving semiconductor firms a Thanksgiving and early Christmas present - TrendForce News
xAI achieves valuation that took OpenAI 9 years. - Yahoo Finance
xAI started with a lot more capital and hype, hasn't quite caught up to baseline OpenAI LLM, and xAI has little adoption in the marketplace. Kind of like Neuralink and Tesla FSD, big hype but Musk is the also-ran playing catchup to the real tech leaders.
DOGE on hiring spree, as Musk, Andreessen plan to repeat the X-odus, this time at the federal government. - Business Insider
Elon Musk wants to launch an AI-first game studio - Polygon
Amazon expected to announce its own multimodal LLM at conference next week. - Yahoo Finance
Using sparse autoencoders to understand LLMs, sort of a way to X-ray them to understand what they are looking at. - Adam Karvonen
More AI devices = more e-waste - The Conversation
Agentic AI company deployed up to 1000 agents at a time into Minecraft to see what they would do. - MIT Technology Review
Having ChatGPT debate Gemini on who's the better AI - UNILAD Tech
AI Wearable Restores Natural Speech for Stroke Patients - Decrypt
A real estate broker using ChatGPT to cold call people and ask if they are thinking of selling. - Reddit
Some AI cold calls by the AI real estate broker are naturally answered by AI robots. - Reddit
Reddit users discuss custom GPTs, share tips, prompts, strategies - Reddit
In related news, AI slop is taking over the Internet - Reuters
Automating SEO with a multi-agent framework. - Geeky Gadgets
Build a Chrome extension quickly with AI. I did this at one point to gather news, but ultimately went with scripting the browser with Selenium. - Geeky Gadgets
AI flags scam calls to users - TechRadar
Sal Khan talks Khanmigo and personalized tutoring at scale. - Edutopia
Victims of explicit deepfakes confront inadequate legal protections. - FT
Andrew Ng released aisuite. - GitHub
Someone should make something that is to langchain as requests is to urllib, iykyk , langchain has a bit of a learning curve and is less predictable than one might hope.
Using AI to find Black Friday deals - Dallas NewsStuff
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