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AI Reading for Monday July 7

AI Reading for Monday July 7

Druce Vertes
July 07, 2025

Elon Musk’s upgraded Grok chatbot generated antisemitic content, conspiracy theories, and false claims, raising concerns over reliability and oversight. - Gizmodo

The Hollywood thing feels a little too good to fact-check, would wait til people replicate it with disclosed, non-leading prompts. Grok blaming Elon for the flood in Texas? It’s all mixed up. Time for Grok to get some professional help

Does Sam Altman’s AI Empire Rely on Brutal Labor Exploitation? - Jacobin

Labeling beats working the fields though?

ChatGPT identifies rare mutation after doctors failed - Mashable India

How A.I. Made Me More Human, Not Less - The New York Times

Using AI to help start tough conversations and even ask fellow humans for help.

Google DeepMind has grand ambitions to 'cure all diseases' with AI. Now, it's gearing up for its first human trials. - Fortune

Google's Logan Kilpatrick has become the public face of Google's AI offensive, and, intentionally or not, a one-man marketing machine. - Business Insider

Smart guy, saw him speak. But oddly Google is failing at popularizing their very good AI ecosystem. This stuff is hard. Despite ChatGPT having a lot of product shortcomings, everybody thinking GPT-4o must be better than o3 because it’s a higher number, Google and others catching up on base models, everybody prefers using ChatGPT over Copilot and Google.

Behind Microsoft’s 15,000 layoffs in 2024: A new attitude shaped by AI - Seattle Times

The stock market's massive AI bet is setting investors up for a smackdown - Business Insider

AWS says AI's capacity to automate the grunt work of investment banking means humans can focus on the more valuable parts of the business. - ZDNET

Amazon’s alleged use of AI to process requests for disability accommodations triggers complaints that requests were “automated” or “semi-automated,” and employees claimed they suffered illegal discrimination. - Inc.

Hertz adopts Palantir AI for fleet and workforce management. Is Palantir behind huge charges for alleged damage? - CIO

Perplexity wants to charge for sponsored follow-up questions, a softly, softly approach to advertising - Business Insider

If you train an AI on all the behavioral social science experiments of all time, could you predict human behavior in novel decision-making settings? - SciTech Daily

How a big shift in training LLMs led to an agent explosion. - Ars Technica

Agents and robots can learn by rote imitation, or by searching a well-modeled solution space (like chess or Go), or by trial-and-error (reinforcement learning). RL can be very effective with a proper reward objective, but takes good science, data and compute.