AI Reading for Monday June 24

VCs cut staff and automate with AI. - Business Insider

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AI might make people more isolated at work and reduce knowledge and culture transfer like training younger staff. - Harvard Business Review

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Anthropic CEO says we need to think beyond universal basic income, i.e. handouts to the ”unwashed masses“ (yes, he used that term) if we want to solve the AI inequality problem. - Business Insider

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Nvidia trades at a higher forward PE than Apple despite being more risky as measured by divergence in earnings forecasts. - Bloomberg

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ByteDance, Parent Company Of TikTok, Is Reportedly Partnering With Broadcom To Develop An AI Chip Using TSMC’s 5nm Process - Wccftech

It might be the right policy for the US to deny scarce GPUs to Chinese companies or force TikTok to divest. China blocks lots of US stuff and requires Chinese partners. But more typical direction for protectionism would be a developing market like China protecting domestic producers, which the US is doing for them.

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AI fact-checkers to combat AI hallucinations and disinformation. - HackerNoon

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Apple in talks with Meta about integrating Llama models. - WSJ

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YC startups say AI bill will hurt California. - Politico

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Autonomous street sweepers coming to Singapore. - Straits Times

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‘Emotional AI’ makes me worried 😧, It’s complicated. More human and humane computing seems good but hard to measure, undoubtedly biased, and people will do manipulative and weird stuff with it. - The Guardian

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Claude making a playable piano - Reddit

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Claude 3.5 making a playable checkers game. - Reddit

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AI says this person may exhibiting symptoms of a thought disorder. Probably fake news. - Reddit

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NYT has a real vs. fake quiz. - NY Times

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Another deepfake quiz detect.truemedia.org/quiz - TrueMedia.org

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