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AI Reading for Monday July 7

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

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'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.

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



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

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.


On-the-job learning upended by AI and hybrid work - Financial Times
Could AI is pull us into a new Dark Age of lazy thinking, confirmation bias, and idiocracy? - Euractiv
AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality - Common Dreams
Could AI improve negotiations, help adversaries understand each other, and reduce conflict? - Irish Tech News

AI's Hidden Geometry of Thought - Psychology Today

But if you have to replay points due to obvious errors, it’s not good.
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