AI Reading for Monday July 14

How do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training - The Conversation

Elon Musk's AI Was Ordered to Be Edgy. It Turned Into a Monster - Gizmodo - Gizmodo

Grok lets you talk to your Tesla, but not tell it to touch the controls, yet - TechRadar

“No, don’t run over those protesters with yarmulkes!”

AI is killing content farms - www.adexchanger.com

AI agents v. brand loyalty. - Forbes

The era of free AI scraping may be coming to an end - Fast Company

Do merchandising middlemen continue to give way to direct-to-consumer brands? Brands never really go away but some stuff gets commoditized. The pys-ops of marketing, the economics of CLV, the hacks like coupon codes seem useless if your robot is doing the shopping. Or more likely, the robots get blocked because no one wants to be commoditized if they can help it.

Everybody's gunning for OpenAI - Business Insider

DeepMind​ CEO​ Demis Hassabis ​is ​steering Google's AI — and ​maybe ​its ​future. Is he Google's next CEO? - Business Insider

Google Brain founder Andrew Ng says AI is "overhyped" - The Street

Not good: Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing scams - Bleeping Computer

This is going to be a big ongoing problem, putting untrusted emails through AI, which can always be prompt-injected.

Amazon postpones web-based Alexa launch, highlighting struggle to keep pace with ChatGPT - The Washington Post

The next browser wars are here — and AI wants all the ad dollars too - Digiday

Call centers are still growing despite AI - Tech in Asia

U.S. utilities seek $29 billion in rate hikes after 142 % jump in AI-driven electricity demand - OilPrice.com

Virginia data center alley encroaches on historic Civil War battlefields - BBC

McKinsey study found UK job vacancies are falling, with AI-prone roles dropping 38%vs. 31% overall - Yahoo Finance

Displaced worker built “CareerBuddy GPT” to automate his job hunt, landing a new role - Fast Company

AI and crypto make big promises to democratize skills and free the masses, but somehow always end up being scammy wealth concentrators - ynetnews

Several big players claim credible pathways to practical quantum computing - Hacker Noon

How Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman is using AI to transform the real estate industry—for buyers, sellers, and agents—using drone fly-overs and AI-generated 'super listings' - Fortune

PNAS study shows AI users are often judged lazier and less competent by non-AI peers - PsyPost

Musicians fight battle against AI on streaming platforms - CBC

Can the Law Compile? No - Hacker Noon

Like compiling C with a Fortran compiler

Teach yourself PyTorch by building all the standard algos - - GitHub

"I went on a date with my AI dream guy. Then I cried over shrimp" - NPR

A Typical Day In NY - Reddit

Popeyes drops Veo 3 diss track against McDonald's, everybody wins ‘wrap’ battle with free coupon codes - TikTok

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