AI Reading for Monday December 30
AI is transforming technical work, and maybe even living up to the hype - Business Insider
Solving Putnam math competition problems is super impressive if no training set contamination, about 5,000 top college math students take it every year and the median score is often 0. Flashbacks of getting my ass kicked in math-major honors calculus with some Putnam types. I thought I was super dumb but prob top 25% of that class ended up professors including places like Harvard, Caltech, Brown.
In order to pay the vast costs of AI, the chat might get tilted toward commercial interests and incorporate surreptitious dark patterns. Have you considered Ozempicâ„¢ as a solution to the problem you are asking about? - South China Morning Post
Might as well use wheels indoors, in factories. These things seem to walk awkwardly and hesitantly like they just shit their pants. Offices can't even keep printers and copiers working consistently.
Lots of AI job titles in job postings. - Fast Company
Did Andrew Ng's Baidu lab discover scaling laws before OpenAI without getting credit? - South China Morning Post
Hairsplitting much? 50-cent army? Well, the Chinese are not as bad as Soviets claiming to have invented television and everything else.
US tech bans push China toward homegrown models and open source models and smaller models - Sify
Also homegrown AI chips. The rising level of nationalism, balkanization, mercantilism is concerning.
Legal clinics turn to AI to serve more people who can't afford lawyers. - AOL
Waymos don’t yield properly to pedestrians? I would expect them to be extreme sticklers about traffic laws and not hitting people. - Washington Post
WaPo covers the AI that learned to perform surgery by watching YouTube videos. - Washington Post
Is OpenAI the Netscape of our time? - Daring Fireball
New Kling deepfake Will Smith spaghetti video slaps. - Reddit
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