AI Reading for Monday November 18

Druce Vertes

Nov 18, 2024

Nvidia is on fire right now, literally - SiliconANGLE

Those powerful server racks with 72 Nvidia B100s are running hot. - Reuters

Microsoft raises 365 Copilot prices 5% despite underwhelming reception. - The Register

CIOs are becoming more wary of gen AI adoption roadblocks - CIO Dive

AI watches everything, looking for stock signals. ‘Twas ever thus, but gen-AI can surveil a firehose of social media posts a lot better than anything before. - South China Morning Post

Wall Street looks to cash in on $1T in AI-related infrastructure investments. Morgan Stanley tells investors, don't compete too hard, the pie is big enough for everyone.

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” - Adam Smith

Artificial super-intelligence where AI outperforms humans on a lot of specific professional tasks, might come before AGI. Or could be the other way around, we could get AGI that learns fast and gets to super-intelligence on a lot of tasks at once. - Benzinga

AGI might arrive with Trump as president, which scares a lot of tech bros. - Futurism

Likelihood of enlightened regulation as opposed to extraction by favored crony capitalists looking increasingly slim.

Tesla up, Uber down as reports Trump wants to push self-driving cars. - Fast Company

X's AI loves Elon Musk and Republicans. - The Verge

4 die in burning Tesla whose doors wouldn't open - Futurism

AI helps inexperienced devs more, writes boilerplate code, helps bad devs write more bad code faster. - ZDNET

Training an algorithm to detect the sounds of a failing lithium battery before it explodes. - The Register

Do you want an AI to listen to all your kid's chats and detect toxicity, cyber-bullying and other problematic stuff? - ITwire

Gen-AI's ability to monitor everything and let managers use it to ask it questions and make decisions will nudge them toward being hyper-controlling. - MIT Sloan Review

AI Technology Detects Cancerous Brain Tumors in Real Time During Surgery - Gadgets 360

Sir David Attenborough is disturbed by AI-generated videos that cloned his voice. - The Mirror

Suleyman says Microsoft has models with near-infinite memory. - Reddit

Google tests self-expanding AI Overviews - PhoneArena

Someone used AI to make an app to track their diabetes, which might be useful but also they don't have their head on straight from a HIPAA and liability and App Store TOS perspective. - Hacker News

“Dawg I ChatGPTed this whole product, I'm a builder, I ain't got time to worry about legal.”

Character.ai bots venture into pedophile territory with underage users. - Futurism

Mockumentary assisted by AI trained on Werner Herzog falls short - Yahoo News

Should have trained on those Christopher Guest / Harry Shearer / Eugene Levy / Michael McKean / Catherine O’Hara mockumentaries, a mashup of those with Werner Herzog could do no wrong

The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI. - Westenberg

AI garbage bins sort trash. - Yahoo Finance

Barbers Alarmed As Customers Start Asking for AI-Generated Haircuts - Futurism

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AI Reading for Monday November 18

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