AI Reading for Monday October 7

Sam Altman, the Machiavellian guy who would win Survivor, might not be the guy you want deciding the future of mankind. - Washington Post

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The most Orwellian company of all time? - Business Insider

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OpenAI is right to abandon non-profit status, simpler, more alignment esp with investors. The competitive accelerationism is problematic for a lot of the AI researchers though. - FT

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Microsoft investors ask questions about dependence on OpenAI and all the associated drama, giant AI spending. - WSJ

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ChatGPT Advanced Voice Assistant might turn some customer-facing brands into middlemen. - Skift

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AI Neocloud Playbook and Anatomy, the firms like Coreweave and Lambda Labs that build GPU clouds and rent them out. - SemiAnalysis

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The tech bro industrial complex that wants to profit as AI arms merchants. - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Law enforcement uses facial recognition to arrest people, but doesn’t necessarily disclose it. - Washington Post

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If competing companies all license the same algorithm for pricing, does that constitute collusion? - Bloomberg

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Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap — and Companies Need to Prepare - Harvard Business Review

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Automating grunt work leads to the loss of training grounds and hands-on experience. - Bloomberg

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CERN trains AI models to revolutionize cancer treatment - EL PAÍS English

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Creating an AI Dr. House to predict if a drug might treat a rare disease. Sarcastic wit optional. - Harvard Gazette

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As AI-powered health care expands, experts warn of AI biases. True, but humans are biased too, and AI could give everyone the benefit of best practices. - Semafor

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An AI drone for search-and-rescue finds people quicker than human air patrols. - WIRED

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Adding a researcher/personal assistant AI coworker bot to Slack. - Geeky Gadgets

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Should you use AI to help buy a home? - USA TODAY

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AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, open source, and pruning service offerings - TechCrunch

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An AI to automatically apply to online jobs - GitHub

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Talk to your data, literally, with a VoiceRag POC - Microsoft

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Who Owns AI’s Output? Can you protect IP generated with the help of AI? Should you be able to? ACM

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Eric Schmidt is like, to hell with the climate, just do AI. Or should we think about an Apollo project to decarbonize the economy in 20 years with commercial fusion and mass-produced nuclear reactors?. - Business Insider

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A prompt to make your own o1-preview - Medium

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Google Photos starts rolling out general availability of AI-powered 'Ask Photos' to talk to your photo library with AI - 9to5Google

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Comparing AI image generators, plus an AI stock photo site - Hacker Noon

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Apple Intelligence rumored on October 28, new M4 Macs on November 1 - MacRumors

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Apple releases Depth Pro, AI that will generate a 3D model from a single 2D photo. - VentureBeat

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Generative AI And Dead Butt Syndrome - Forbes

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TFW the AI has to take a moment to collect itself and not lose its shit at a stupid user. Big feeling the AGI here - Reddit

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Brace yourselves: The AI cat memes are coming - Reddit

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