AI Reading for Monday December 16
Big Tech's New Obsession: Agents and the Rise of AI Labor - Bloomberg
How AI agents are revolutionizing automation - VentureBeat
Bosses struggle to police workers’ use of AI - FT
Need an AI for that
Study says AI might improve scientists' productivity but make them less creative - Gizmodo
Same for office workers no doubt.
Seems like a great application but managers think anything worth doing is worth overdoing. A tool that understands everything? They will inevitably take it too far.
Altman and others talk about AI job losses - YouTube
Sam Altman reckons with a growing threat to OpenAI: Elon Musk. -FT
Maybe he should be more worried about Google and Google should be more worried about the Feds?
Ghosted by ChatGPT: How Jonathan Turley was first defamed and then deleted by AI - Yahoo News
Rumor of GPT-4.5 this week - Reddit
AI video + Sora music is getting good - Reddit
Can We Align Language Models With Human Values? - Google sponcon - The Atlantic
Giant Japanese robot vs Olympic table tennis player - YouTube
Surely no one is going to manufacture an alien invasion panic to distract the masses from real problems here on earth.
The university AI cheating epidemic - the Guardian
Kids talking to bots … unleashing creativity and the imagination, or habituating them to a lifetime of dependence on AI? - digitalcameraworld
Learn you OpenAI Canvas (or Claude artifacts) for great good - ZDNET
Reddit is overrun by AI - Reddit
The Future of Life organization run by Max Tegmark rated safety of major LLMs, none did well but Anthropic did best. - Tom's Guide
AI-enhanced video editing can be more than, what is the ffmpeg command to do X - Fast Company
Talk to AI Santa - Tom's Hardware
Be careful, he knows when you are sleeping, he knows when you’re awake.
Grok-2 AI Chatbot by Elon Musk is Now Faster, Sharper, and Free for All - AI Tools Club
If Mad Magazine still was a thing
ByteDance to invest in generating video (yay, AI-generated TikToks, robot Mr. Beast FTW) - South China Morning Post
China cracks down on AI memes - South China Morning Post
Kind of like the NFL gonna crack down on offensive Joe Buck and Chris Collinsworth AI - TikTok
Caddyshack gopher - YouTube
I tried ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode with video. The ChatGPT iPad app didn't capture the camera input so I spliced in photos. A good fast multimodal model and natural text to speech is amazeballs. Definitely worth trying out!
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