AI Reading for Saturday August 3
In a surprising 'reverse acquihire', Google pays off buzzy Character.ai investors and hires founding team. - The Verge
Google pulls AI ad that was deemed tone-deaf. - The Verge
Well, AI can help you write stuff, and maybe even help you get in touch with your kids and your feelings, but also, our most personal stuff being mediated by robots, seemingly personal messages being low-effort Hallmark card spam, is bleak.
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.” - Erich Fromm
Big tech asks for patience with big AI spend, as investors start to fret. - NY Times
Meta looking to license well-known voices like Judi Dench for a digital assistant. - NY Times
Nvidia tells customers that B100 will be delayed by a few months due to bugs. - Bloomberg
So far, NPUs are just taking up CPU die space that could be devoted to more cores and cache, and software is not using them. - Digital Trends
WSJ sent wrecked Teslas' computers from junkyards to hackers and extracted data and crash videos.
Bad look for Tesla. If WSJ went full Theranos and this is all they got, nothing very new to see here. It seems like they were cross-referencing with regulatory reports and checking if the disclosures lined up with the data. If this is the shot over the bow and there are more shoes to drop, like lying to regulators or covering up crashes, it could get interesting. I always wondered why Karpathy left, if he was just fed up with Elon and his crazy promises or if he was pressured to cross red lines.
Figure teases a new robot coming next week. - VentureBeat
TikTok cat videos are getting goofy and freaky. - Washington Post
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