AI Reading for Monday April 29!

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Musk is still in favor in China, inks Baidu deal and moves toward 'FSD' availability in China. You can worry about TikTok but China massively influences what you see in social media, other media like movies, and leaders/influencers like Musk. - the Guardian

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Bill Gates is still deeply, if informally, involved in Microsoft, and Halloween-memo-style prodding pushed Microsoft towards OpenAI. - Business Insider

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Hassabis and Suleyman: Contrasting, Driven Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn AI Rivals. - NY Times

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Jensen Huang on 60 Minutes. - CBS

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Investors have stuffed $330b into AI startups over the last 3 years. Will they ever start making money? - NY Times

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Bland AI agent takes phone calls and responds to users with AI. - Twitter

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Wendy's AI order-taker goes viral. - The Daily Dot

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Learn algebra from Zendaya? - Freethink

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AI-generated content about mushrooms can literally kill you. - Vox

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Goldman Sachs on labor trends and AI impact. - Goldman Sachs

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FT licenses content to OpenAI. - FT

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Is an always-on ChatGPT assistant in your ear a good thing to have, or inevitable? - Tom's Guide

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Photo contests struggle with AI submissions. - TechRadar

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AI-enhanced license plate reader camera helps solve murder. Cool, but when they add ubiquitous facial recognition it will be problematic. - KCTV65

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Deepfakes as a human rights issue when they are used for influence and control, to put people in jail, discredit, harass and marginalize them. - RSIL

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UK celebrity used in ads after ID theft, scammer used a deepfake to trick client into thinking she agreed. - the Guardian

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Using Novelcrafter to help outline and write books and long-form content. - Geeky Gadgets

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Autonomous car race had some issues. No spectacular crashes, disappointingly. Cars stopping in the middle of the track doesn't bode that great for autonomous driving. - The Verge

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Does gen AI supercharge RPA vendors' business models or make them irrelevant? hard to say but I suspect UIpath prices will come down. - TechCrunch

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AI taking jobs? Unpossible! laissez-faire solves everything. - Reason.com

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Some fun Midjourney enhancements, upping the weirdness, tiling, working negative prompts and more - How-To Geek

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Improving LLM performance by first asking it to rewrite the prompt (4:45 for the key bit) - Geeky Gadgets

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Ethnic cleansing San Francisco. Heaven help us from zealots who want to save us. The Microsoft of nations, could be worse actually. - The New Republic

Everything is a cult now. - Vox

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Ask ChatGPT and Claude how human they are on a scale of 1 to 100 - Reddit

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