AI Reading for Saturday August 24

Aug 24, 2024

AI Pioneer Bengio Fears Regulators Running Out of Time to Take Action or Risk Catastrophic Harms. - Bloomberg

Ex-OpenAI researchers speak out against the company's opposition to the AI bill. - Business Insider

Anthropic supports revised AI bill, says benefits now outweigh costs. - Reuters

4 months after raising $220m from Bernard Arnault and others, 3 of 5 co-founders depart Holistic AI startup. AI is harder than leather goods? - The Information

Grok-2 cracked the LMSYS leaderboard tied with Gemini at #2

How Musk got tangled up in (Twitter) Blue. - NY Times

Swarms of robots on the battlefield. - TechCrunch

AI might learn to read your brain waves, like 1984 predicted, along with countless schizophrenics.

Vectara Portal lets anyone upload docs and build chatbots to talk to data. - VentureBeat

Meta says its human vision model significantly beats state of the art for interpreting pictures of human subjects. - arXiv.org

New LM Studio is out if you want to download models from HuggingFace to run locally - LMstudio.ai

We are a long way from open-source AI if people can't compile it from source, i.e. get the training data and the code to train it from scratch. - FT

You can ask your AI phone to review itself. - CNET

The Pixel 9's AI features have made creating realistic and believable fake photos trivial, and Google's safeguards are inadequate. - The Verge

It's weird when Google and OpenAI have to put terms of service out barring the use of their technology to kill people but here we are. I don't think you can really ban military from using Google Cloud for payroll tho? - The Verge

Businesses are using tons of deepfakes, for stuff like training, support avatars, not to mention restaurant food pics. - WSJ

ChatGPT takes over the role of translating for immigrants. There is a use case for an Advanced Voice Mode translator. - NBC News

AI is the new HR - Forbes

Ha, AI really did hallucinate some reviews that ended up in Coppola trailer, AI is going just great! - Deadline

Salesforce launches AI sales reps to get your info into the CRM, qualify you, and pass you to a real salesperson - ZDNET

After reverse acquihire, Google appointed Noam Shazeer technical co-head of Gemini , with Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals. - Reuters

DOJ sues RealPage over accusations of collusion-as-a-service - The Verge

If it’s a deal where the landlord is required to follow pricing recommendations or get booted from the program, it’s just like the Standard Oil Trust for setting oil prices, with a tech spin.

AI's Hyped Up BS Attempts at Picking Stocks Are Garbage - Futurism

If you are going to try to predict stocks using an AI that can’t count how many R’s are in ‘raspberry’, you are going to have a bad time. It’s a poet, not a quant.

AI to smell your breath and detect disease. - Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Donald Trump takes mushrooms and heads to Peru - X (formerly Twitter)

"Everybody be cool, this is an AI gone wild" - Reddit

ChatGPT, roast thyself - Reddit

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