AI Reading for Monday January 20
We can rest easy people, the absolute dumbest MFs on the planet are on top of the whole AI thing.
o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point) - Latent.Space
Feels like an attempt at deception and using it to hype o3. - LessWrong
Verbal assurances are generally worth the paper they were written on.
I just don't think scaling up the LLM pattern matching stochastic parrot approach gets you to any real math understanding. Just maybe brainstorms what mathematicians might try. We'll see but smells like BS.
Feynman has some quotes about how he did math, and it ain’t this
How should we test for AGI? - Nature
OpenAI worked with fountain of youth health tech company to build a gen-AI model that would discover new proteins and paths to manufacture stem cells. - MIT Technology Review
BCG: What are AI agents? - BCG Global
AI Agents Are About To Blow Up the Business Process Layer - The New Stack
Could you give an AI agent a seat at the boardroom table? And other Davos shenanigans. - MSN
AI moves up the 'kill chain' in the military. - TechCrunch
2nd wave of AI coding assistants looks to automate full SDLC tasks beyond coding like testing, debugging, version control. - MIT Technology Review
Thoughts On A Month With Devin (the "AI software engineer") - answer.ai
"Out of 20 tasks we attempted, we saw 14 failures, 3 inconclusive results, and just 3 successes. More concerning was our inability to predict which tasks would succeed."
How AI Will Integrate With Synthetic Biology. - Hacker Noon
By connecting a locust's antenna to AI, researchers were able to create a cyborg to detect smells. Coming soon, RoboCop but for bomb- and drug-sniffing dogs.
GitHub still has a lot of nonconsensual explicit deepfake projects. - WIRED
Meta releases open source fast speech to speech translation model. - SingularityHub
Asking AI to be funnier increases stereotypical answers. - PsyPost
If a robot can swing dance, or teach me to tango I'll flip to bullish on robots - Interesting Engineering
Can AI Condense Two Years of Learning Into Six Weeks? - Psychology Today
Paul Schrader Thinks AI Can Mimic Great Storytellers: ‘Every Idea ChatGPT Came Up with Was Good’ - IndieWire
Windows 11 dev channel Insiders get the chance to try out semantic indexing on Copilot Plus PCs. - The Verge
Perplexity AI makes wack bid to merge with TikTok U.S. - CNBC
How to avoid AI scams? (Brad Pitt doesn't need your cash, ladies) - WIRED
20 funny things I saw last week, with a number of AI fails. - me via LinkedIn
I am just an America-hating communist I guess - Futurism
Pretty wild that the tech bros think they are the oppressed in this country. Good job, you decreased African-American admissions by 4%, but 40% are still legacies, athletes, and university affiliates, so who gets the real DEI edge in this country, surely not midwit billionaire kids amirite.
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