AI Reading for Monday April 7

Apr 07, 2025

Zuckerberg: reasoning model coming in the next month - Instagram

Mollick: Llama 4 doesn’t pass vibe check as a true frontier competitor to DeepSeek yet - BlueSky

Researchers say the version of Maverick in LM Arena doesn't act like the one you can download, suggesting some benchmark shenanigans. - TechCrunch

Possibly BS, anyone can post anything, but some wise guy said Meta is juking the stats - Reddit

Hmmh, juking stats, stealing LibGen content, the Meta elf’s Trump god-emperor fetish and use of AI for anti-privacy evil BS, that makes only 3 or 4 things that could make a head of AI quit in disgust. From the blog post - Meta

“It is well-known” generally means, what I want to believe but can’t show evidence of.

DeepSeek and Tsinghua wrote a paper on a general method for using LLM as judge to generate rewards for reinforcement learning. - Bloomberg

AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught - Nature

Why Can't AI Make Its Own Discoveries? — Alex Kantrowitz With Yann LeCun . - YouTube

AI has memorized everything and can copy artists, but it hasn't made any weird scientific connections, hey has anybody noticed that this is associated with that. Maybe Google’s science assistant will change that. But obv LLMs struggle deeply with knowledge representation beyond language, acquiring new information, generalizing.

Creating a fake passport in 5 minutes that passes online KYC checks. Online ID checks are useless and probably actively harmful. - Security Affairs

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is developing its own "off-frontier" AI models 3 or 6 months behind OpenAI. - Windows Central

AI craters some types of Web traffic as Google adds AI search, tweaks algorithm. "Hardaker himself had made $250,000 in gross revenue in 2023. But by the time of the meeting, he said he was relying on a food bank." - Bloomberg

Gumroad: Devin doing a lot of PRs, eventually most of them - Xitter

OpenAI has discussed buying Jony Ive's device startup. Conflict of interest much? - The Information

A&O Shearman unveils AI tool to identify regulatory approvals needed for deals, map contract requirements - FT

OpenAI tests watermarking for free ChatGPT-4o Image Generation model - Bleeping Computer

Misleading Apple 'contact suggestion' phone number update blamed for Signalgate fiasco - the Guardian

OFC the main reason for the fiasco is creating the Signal group in the first place, and using it to share actual classified war intel and plans instead of eg setting up meetings.

AI and the Memetic Spiral - Psychology Today

when humans are free to choose, they mostly copy each other, and now they copy AI, which is the greatest human-copying machine ever invented

Maybe if you think less and use AI for everything, you'll be a lot happier and get a lot more done and your blood pressure, sleep and weight will get better? - Reddit

How to write a viral LinkedIn post about how turning your life over to AI made everything better. - ChatGPT

Satya Nadella, Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer Get Roasted By Copilot AI - YouTube

But I was told if Kamala Harris was elected president, markets would crash, we'd have recession, egg prices and inflation would remain high, stores would be empty, foreign countries would laugh at us, the Ukraine and Middle East catastrophes would continue and worsen…so glad we dodged all that

So who all is buying out Apple Store and Best Buy before the tariffs and next wave of price hikes hit?

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AI Reading for Monday April 7

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