AI Reading for Monday April 8

Apr 08, 2024

Yann LeCun says p(doom) is <0.01%, Musk and Hinton say 10 to 20%, AI researcher Yamploskiy says they are too optimistic, puts chance of an AI-driven apocalypse "at 99.999999%." - TechRadar

More details and quotes. - Decrypt

CNET pans Gemini. But to be fair, Google has largely caught up with OpenAI, and the 1m-token context window previewing in Gemini 1.5 with multimodality is a game-changer. Also, Perplexity is great but uses other people's LLMs, is analogous to a superior AI Google Search Experience, not Gemini itself. - CNET

Could be worse like Grok. With a bit of prodding, Grok will instruct users on criminal activities including bomb-making, hot-wiring a car and even seducing children. - VentureBeat

Right-wing snowflakes want Sundar Pichai's job over 'woke' AI images, and analysts question if he is the right man for the job, or Google's Steve Ballmer. - New York Post

In JPM annual letter, Jamie Dimon predicts AI could be as big as the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing and the Internet.

Gary Marcus: Generative AI as Shakespearean tragedy, leaving behind a pile of unreliable systems that are unlikely to live up to the hype.

Is AI a threat to democracy and social order? - Tech Times

Honestly things weren’t looking that great before AI. There is some interesting stuff going on with AI governance, using AI to determine expressed and revealed preferences to guide policy.

Apple turning its gaze on smart homes and robot butlers in quest for the Next New Thing. - Bloomberg

Companies use AI tools to enable accessible websites, but blind users say they don't work. - FT

Thoughts decoded to text using a brain-computer interface. - Psypost