AI Reading for Friday September 6
Is OpenAI considering charging a ton of money for its next model? $2,000 for who-knows-what has been mooted.
Would have to be 1) ludicrously good and 2) ludicrously expensive to run.
If not 1) people won't pay, that’s like what you would pay for an (offshore) employee. If not 2) OpenAI could use it acquire customers and land-grab a new market they created, not price people out of it.
The TIME100 Most Influential People in AI 2024 - TIME
Dizzying Deepfakes and Personalized Propaganda: Welcome to the AI Election - Vanity Fair
Federal national AI lab like Los Alamos might be in the offing. - Washington Post
Newsom takes potshots for asking AI leaders to help solve homelessness. - Big Issue
AI can't house people but maybe it can help match people with beds. There is a market design problem and a game theory problem.
Salesforce in pivot to autonomous agents. - Fortune
Replit's new AI Agent that helps you build apps from scratch is supposed to be pretty good. - Maginative
RCT finds a huge increase in software developer productivity with AI. - SSRN
An AI tutor helped Harvard students learn more. - Harvard Gazette
Do we want a robot dog with Amazon Echo capabilities to follow us around the house? - TikTok
Goldman says sell big tech, which is risky, but so is holding them.- Benzinga
Software is eating the world, everything is mediated online, and they have the power to tax it. If Apple and Google decided to put MasterCard out of business tomorrow, government is the only thing that could stop them.
VC-backed AI champions haven't really gained traction, even startups like OpenAI and Anthropic depend on bottomless pockets of Big Tech cash. Concentration is continuing to grow. - CNBC
AI for college essays … it's sort of like using AI to help craft your résumé, you have to choose what to put down, but if you're a 17-year-old and the output ends up being mostly AI it totally defeats the purpose - Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
And then the AI doctor said 'stick out your tongue' - HackerNoon
YouTube is making new tools to protect creators from AI deepfake copycats - The Verge
Tesla Full Self-Driving coming to Cybertruck and maybe Europe and China - The Verge
Man allegedly created AI songs and AI bots to listen to them so he would get paid by streaming services. - Ars Technica
ESPN Defends AI Game Recaps Amid Backlash - Front Office Sports
Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Art - The Atlantic
AI can make art for sure, just not very good art.
A colony of AI robots is running amok in Minecraft. - ReadWriteWeb
AI expert rates movie AIs - Business Insider
When your weirdo friends try to automate you. - DYNOMIGHT
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