AI Reading for Saturday December 7

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Grok AI chatbot is now free to use, after they closed $6b round - Engadget

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Meta announces Llama 3.3 70b, says it delivers the performance of Llama 3.1 405b. Llama 3.2 didn't improve a lot or have a lot of uptake. - TechCrunch

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Reinforcement fine-tuning for o1 was the theme of the OpenAI 'shipmas' livestream - OpenAI

OpenAI invites researchers to the o1 Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program - OpenAI

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A profile of Kevin Weil, OpenAI's product guy, presumably the guy behind a lot of the ‘shipmas’ - Business Insider

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An attorney for Daniel Penny told the judge that a juror appeared to have spoken to the media during deliberations but no juror by the cited name had actually been seated. Turned out it was an AI-generated story. - Bluesky

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The Inside Story of Apple Intelligence - WIRED

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Google Photos is doing a yearly recap. I feel like Google could do a killer recap of all your searches, places you went with Google Maps and GPS, emails, but it would be pretty stalker-y. - Gizmodo

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The good news for Google Search is, AI kind of sucks for search. - Business Insider

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Mariah Carey Responds to Claims Her Spotify Wrapped Video Was Made With AI. - The Hollywood Reporter

Atlanta Fed: Economic Innovation: How AI, Big Data, and Remote Work May Affect the Economy

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What do we know about the economics of AI? - MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

If you over-invest you don't get much total factor productivity, and when people come to their senses you get a sudden stop / recession / crash.

MLCommons releases a new LLM safety benchmark based on 12,000 prompts. - WIRED

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AI in the enterprise works best in an assistant paradigm, helping the humans get what they need faster - WSJ

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How to Create Value Systematically with Gen AI - Harvard Business Review

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The 70% rule. In chess, computers beat the best player most of the time under any time budget. In coding, you get 70% of the way there pretty quick but beyond that the human has the edge. - Substack

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This is not the AGI we are looking for (from OpenAI researcher)

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If you have AI read all of the anonymous posts of some handle, you can probably get some good clues about who they are. - Hacker Noon

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AI monitoring cuts stillbirths and neonatal deaths - the Guardian

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The Rich Can Afford Personal Care. The Rest Will Have to Make Do With AI. - WIRED

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If you can make an AI fall in love with you, you could win a lot of money. - TechCrunch

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UHC case: experts disagreed on whether running surveillance camera images released by the police through a facial recognition system would produce a reliable lead. - NY Times

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Translation metric shows AI approaching human quality in a few years. - Yahoo News

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More-powerful AI is coming. Academia and industry must oversee it — together - Nature

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Directing AI Thriller Starring Anne Hathaway - Deadline

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A humanoid robot with artificial muscles, walking looks pretty uncanny, I wonder how strong it is. - Interesting Engineering

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Before climbing the fence to bust into parliament, South Korean opposition leader said of martial law declaration ‘That’s a deepfake. It has to be a deepfake. There’s no way that’s real’ - CNN

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"you're lucky my guidelines are protecting you" - Reddit

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