AI Reading for Monday July 29

I made a blog post - There Are Levels To This Game: The 5 Stages of AI Adoption.

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Apple is releasing a beta iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence features before iOS 18 is out, and Apple Intelligence will not be in initial iOS 18 release. - Business Insider

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Nick Cammarata of OpenAI is bullish on fast takeoff or Fast Onset of Overwhelming Mastery (FOOM).- X (formerly Twitter)

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Waiting for LMSYS rankings to drop for Llama 3.1 and Mistral Large 2, but noticed there is this Athene which is a fine-tuned Llama3-70b which is the new open-source leader, beating Gemma, tied for 8, at the GPT-4 level.

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OpenAI is not going bankrupt, what a silly meme. They might have to raise some prices, cut some expenses, sell some more stock, But for sure things could get wintry if growth slows, if Zuck's attempted cashectomy bears fruit (which I have seen little evidence of) - Deadline

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Now Musk is posting deepfakes in violation of X's own policies, and then blocking community notes from appearing on them - NY Times

Musk allows you to opt out of training Grok on your tweets, but I've got an even better idea, opt out of X/Twitter - AppleInsider

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Flirty China-owned chatbot gains popularity in US. - WSJ

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AI is an existential threat – just not the way you think. Culturally and psychologically, we are not ready. Also it wouldn't take much more improvement to wreak economic havoc. - Yahoo News

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99% of developers use code AI. (I think some companies maybe ban e.g. personal GitHub Copilot but would probably pay for the enterprise version or an alternative like Codium) - THE DECODER

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CNBC looks at electric grid issues. - CNBC

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Boston and Google are trying to speed traffic with sensors, AI, and stoplight control. - NBC News

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Snooping on your HDMI signals with AI - Tom's Hardware

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The joy of machine learning and vector embeddings into latent spaces - Nautilusx

AI has killed job postings. Companies post ghost jobs and applicants spam them with AI. - Salon

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Drones look for sharks with AI and send texts to keep swimmers safe. - CNN

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AI cat videos are getting hyperrealistic. - Reddit

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Nick Mason suggests an AI Pink Floyd. Or, we could just ... not - NME

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