AI Reading for Saturday February 8

Feb 08, 2025

OpenAI eyes the wearables business: Robots, headsets, watches and a whole lot more - ZDNET

How educators are using deep research in ChatGPT - OpenAI

Seems to be making a splash. Not deep research, but a guy used o1 to write a paper on the EMT when time travel is possible, which is actually only a modest increase in improbable EMT assumptions.

Taking a page from DeepSeek, OpenAI's o3-mini now lets you see the AI's thought process - ZDNET

Softbank set to invest $40 billion in OpenAI at $260 billion valuation, sources say - CNBC

Doug Burgum and others helped Sam Altman end-run Musk to sneak into the White House - NY Times

Google starts testing new Search 'AI Mode' internally – Here’s an early look at it - 9to5Google

Google faked Gemini AI output in Super Bowl ad, displaying copy that has been online since 2020 - The Verge

DeepMind claims its AI performs better than International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists - TechCrunch

Gemini AI can now watch YouTube videos for you, and this changes everything - TechRadar

I tried this with previous versions of Gemini and it didn't really understand was going on. Latest ChatGPT advanced voice mode with vision had pretty good understanding. Will have to try Gemini again.

LLMs aren't great at OCR and PDFs - Pulse AI

Allen Institute says its open-source model can beat DeepSeek. - Tech Brew

Beating DeepSeek is the new beating OpenAI. Will wait for 3rd party benchmarks, they haven't made much of a splash in Chatbot Arena despite earlier announements.

DeepSeek or no, no one is cutting data center plans. You first! - NY Times

UAE, France to funnel up to €50B into a 1GW AI datacenter, 1/10 of a Stargate how cute - The Register

DeepSeek probably not gonna cut carbon emissions either. - Washington Post

I've said it before, carbon tax or STFU. AI is < 1% of the problem and if you get a network of Stargates maybe it goes to like 10% in 10 years, so maybe worry about the other 90% from transportation, agriculture, construction, home heating first? so much low hanging fruit like Escalades and F-150s LOL

Maybe DeepSeek will be Apple's AI partner in China and a weapon against OpenAI and Google and Microsoft - Fast Company

"Instructions to modify bird flu. A manifesto in defense of Hitler. A social-media campaign to promote cutting and self-harm among teens." Here ya go, says DeepSeek - WSJ

Asking DeepSeek and ChatGPT ethical questions, utilitarian outcomes-based vs. principles-based decisionmaking. Lying is bad but is it unethical to lie to the Gestapo if it saves a life? - Tom's Guide

OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's SSI in talks to be valued at $20 billion, sources say. - Reuters

Seems like a lot maybe for a company that hasn’t shipped a product.

This time is different? OpenAI and Sutskever's SSI notwithstanding, most of the bubble is in established monopolists with market and political power, if the crash is crippling they might get policy lifelines to compete with China and whatnot, even cheap investment like Intel. - Business Insider

Uh oh, change your OpenAI passwords. - The Independent

Hints at why models in Azure (even DeepSeek) probably keep your info safer than OpenAI's API. It's not Microsoft's first rodeo, OpenAI has had a few breaches.