AI Reading for Monday March 24

Seven AI roles managers must master - FT

Stuff like, understanding the possibilities, evaluating POCs, reorganizing work taking into account AI gaps while using it as a productivity multiplier, selling AI and managing teams through AI transformations.

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How to teach your employees to embrace (rather than fear) the growth of AI - Fast Company

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When to Use GenAI Versus Predictive AI - MIT Sloan

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Browser Use, the tool making it easier for AI 'agents' to navigate websites, raises $17M - TechCrunch

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AI agent browsers are failing because websites can block them pretty easily, and not just because of CAPTCHAs, browser signatures and behavioral signatures give them away. - Hacker Noon

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Watching bots fail CAPTCHAs - Hacker Noon

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Can we use AI to rewrite outdated and contradictory regs and laws? - WSJ

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China's open-source embrace upends conventional wisdom around artificial intelligence - CNBC

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Korean AI chip startup rejects $800m offer from Meta - Bloomberg

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Unitree robot shows off some slick dance, gymnastics, martial arts moves - Instagram

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A day in the life of an AI-augmented lawyer - TechRadar

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How Software Engineers Actually Use AI Now - WIRED

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Apple's vision for AI wearables with vision - Bloomberg

Airpods and Apple Watches with cameras and AI health features.

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Gemini rolling out its Astra advanced voice assistant with video, which can also see your Android screen. - Android Authority

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What is MCP and why care? - Geeky Gadgets

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AI as technological bribery and deal with the devil, trading your privacy and agency and basic humanity for convenience? - LibrarianShipwreck

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Trump Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants - WIRED

Acting like Xi does when he decides he doesn't like Jack Ma or Didi Chuxing or Caixin or Anbang, except far stupider.

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Mistral CEO advocates for sovereign AI. "100 years ago, if you weren't building electricity factories, you were preparing yourself to buy it from your neighbors, which, at the end of the day, isn't great because it creates some dependencies." - Business Insider

Unlike electricity all cultural and economic activity is increasingly mediated through Big Tech.

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Begun, the drone wars have - FT

If we are just sending machines into a robot arena, why not just make it a video game contest? There was a Star Trek episode about this, sort of.

or maybe in the wise words of Joshua "The only winning move is not to play."

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New York Off-Broadway play offers AI-powered live translations to attract new audiences - Semafor

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Reid Hoffman's new book: ‘Start using AI deeply. It is a huge intelligence amplifier’ - the Guardian

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Silicosis is ruining the lungs of construction workers. An AI-powered breath test can detect it in minutes - The Conversation

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I was a music AI sceptic – until I actually used it - The Conversation

did an AI write this?

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Dynamo is Nvidia's 'operating system' to run inference at scale - The Register

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Fairness (or dare I say DEI) as a form of regularization - Hacker Noon

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Diffbot takes unstructured text and turns it into knowledge graphs, which can be super useful for some RAG workflows, fact-checking etc.

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Nir Diamant's collection of gen AI agent reference implementations - GitHub

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A library that monkey-patches the OpenAI Python API and other APIs to log everything. - PyPI

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An LLM Multi-Round Coding Tournament - GitHub

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