AI Reading for Saturday August 31
OpenAI could change its corporate structure - SiliconANGLE
OpenAI grabs political veteran Chris Lehane from AirBnb as head of global policy. - NY Times
OpenAI updates Assistants API for (slightly) better RAG - VentureBeat
It’s a quick way to get an RAG assistant app up and running but falls short in terms of reranking and metadata and hybrid search. Not sure what the best practice would be to get something more advanced, Microsoft and Weaviate and Qdrant seem to have some hybrid search offerings.
Amazon showcases an investment research agent. - Amazon Web Services
Amazon reverse-acquihires robot AI company founded by OpenAI researchers. - GeekWire
An AI agent that responds to routine requests while you are on your vacation. - Business Insider
‘AfrAId’ Review: An AI Thriller So By The Numbers It Could Have Been Written By AI - Observer
No creativity without hallucinations, which may teach us something about the process of imagination. - ACM
Google tightens election guardrails. - Engadget
Grok found to amplify conspiracy theories and toxic content. - Global Witness
Can an LLM learn to be a fiduciary? - Business Insider
If an LLM isn't a social animal, it can't really be any more 'sociopathic' than a cash register, but the people who use it can be.
Don't anthropomorphize LLMs. They hate it when you do that. - Practical Ethics
Cohere updates its flagship Command R LLM - VentureBeat
Massive image dataset belatedly purged of illegal content involving minors - Ars Technica
5 Reasons 80% Of AI Projects Fail - RAND
Bioacoustic AI to listen to your cough and tell you if you have Covid or TB or just a common cold - Bloomberg
A vetted peer-reviewed LLM-based search engine will not appeal to the masses. - BGR
Build something like a custom GPT or Assistants API agent on any language model. - GitHub
Media falls victim to Grimes diss track hoax. - Futurism
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