AI Reading for Saturday August 10

Lighter publishing schedule due to travels and other duties but here we go.

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A lot of articles about the Advanced Voice Mode last couple of days, mostly positive. The GPT-4o system card is out and says there is a risk people anthropomorphize it. - LaptopMag

If they didn’t want that, then maybe pump the brakes on the 'Her' vibe? They are saying open access this fall, where is my invite dammit.

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When Advanced Voice Mode goes wild it’s a little crazy. - Reddit

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Free ChatGPT users get 2 Dall-E images per day now, formerly available only to paying customers. Have a young Republican in a bow tie. I guess ChatGPT thinks they don’t shave or something. - The Verge

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AI feeds increase in junk science. - Phys.org

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Hollywood is divided on AI, mostly between creators and bean-counters. - The Hollywood Reporter

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Getting branded a monopolist tends to be the jinx, calls forth competitors or even obsolescence. - AP

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Journaling might use Apple Intelligence for deep suggestions, based on everything iPhone knows you've been up to. - 9to5Mac

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Apple's iOS 18.1 with Apple Intelligence expected in October. - 9to5Mac

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Advertising coalition shuts down after Musk claims political boycott and sues. - NY Times

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Elon Musk is bringing lawsuits to Texas. A judge with Tesla stock keeps hearing them. Political bias, against you, you say? - NPR

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Where AI slop comes from … Facebook paying creators for likes. - 404 Media via Simon Willison

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Inventor of pay-per-click advertising has a plan to compensate creators whose work is used to train AI - Ars Technica

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Perplexity grows by 600% from a year ago. - FT

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Robots that practice mindfully and self-improve. Cue robot dog reading ‘The Purpose-Driven Life’. - TechSpot

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Uber CEO thinks Musk's thesis that car owners will want their personal vehicles to be robotaxis when not in use is unproven. - Business Insider

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Ultra-dynamic AI pricing discriminates based on how price-sensitive or desperate or dumb it thinks you are. - Common Dreams

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Swarms of drones fly over the battlefield, detecting targets, asking the remote operator, should I kill it? - The US Sun

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AI is heating the pools at the Olympics. and the pools are helping cool AI GPUs. - Entrepreneur

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Microsoft Copilot found insecure by default. - The Register

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Are AI content detectors evolving beyond snake oil? - ZDNET

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Google has been dropping prices and advertising a lot in my socials, they are pushing hard now that they have bragging rights on OpenAI. - Ben’s Bites

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Alibaba's Qwen2-Math claims top math ranking. - VentureBeat

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AI is reshaping data science work. - InfoWorld

See also

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Copyright traps to get an alert when AI steals your work. - Mashable

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AI exacerbates the problems of the underlying economic systems.

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A more complex templating engine for prompt engineering than what LangChain does, need to think about possible use cases when I don't have a character zoo to adapt prompts to. - GitHub

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I initially thought this DeepMind ping-pong robot was deepfake clickbait. - Digital Trends

RIP Susan Wojcicki, grande dame of YouTube and Silicon Valley. - Google

RIP John Mayall, damn. Absolute giant of Brit-blues. - YouTube

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