AI Reading for Monday April 15

AI could split workers into 2: The ones whose jobs get easier and get 3-day workweeks and the ones who lose them completely. - Business Insider

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WSJ Video: The Lawsuits That Could Shape the Future of AI and Copyright Law - WSJ

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The Economist looks at gen-AI copyright issues, kind of misses the point, which is to write new rules that balance creator and user rights, and create economics that generate the highest consumer and producer surplus. - The Economist

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Comparing today's AI bubble to the dot-com bubble. It's hard to overstate the craziness. I recall hearing that a Morgan Stanley contingent went to HBS to recruit and no one signed up to interview. - Quartz

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Self-driving tram runs red light and plows into pedestrians in St Petersburg. - The US Sun

Driverless Waymo drives into construction site. - Twitter

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Autonomous AI robots fix streets. - Fox News

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Google Infini-attention transformers give models infinite context - VentureBeat

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Scientists at Penn create a virtual robot academy holodeck using LLMs to train our future autonomous assistants. - Penn Engineering Blog

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Stanford report highlights trends in AI, like, it's getting better. - Stanford

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Ukraine's kamikaze AI drone attacks on Russian oil refineries. Tech seems like it could empower terror attacks. - CNBC

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Some doctors are excited about AI helping them, most are concerned. - Medscape

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Former WeWork guy says AI girlfriends will be a $1b industry. - Twitter

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NYC restaurants experiment with remote cashiers in the Philippines. Won't: Achieve NYC levels of self-importance. Will: get abused by Karens, demand ever-bigger tips. - NY Times

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LLMs aren’t very bright. Why are so many people fooled? Eliza effect FTW. - Gary Marcus

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