AI Reading for Saturday Jan 11

New OpenAI job listings reveal big robotics plans - TechCrunch

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Meta trained its AI on Libgen, which is a pirate content site, so that is a bit shocking and super shady, they seem exposed to lawsuits and also possibly enterprises that use that AI. - WIRED

Google and Microsoft indemnify enterprises, there are companies that offer LLMs for enterprise claimed to be fully vetted against IP issues.

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Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles - Yahoo Finance

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Tech Giants vs. China Hawks on AI exports - WSJ

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Data brokers exploited thousands of apps to surveil users' locations and sell it to anyone who paid for it. - 404 Media

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Apple's anticipated big iPhone upgrade cycle considered a bust. - Business Insider

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AI-powered devices dominate Consumer Electronics Show

I went for a couple of days. IMHO the humanoid robots are way overhyped, I think virtual AI avatars you can talk to and interact with, and AI industrial robots that are static or on wheels will be huge for a few years first, before that takes off. There’s going to be ubiquitous AI but it will take a while to get it right, Apple Intelligence and Microsoft Copilot have a lot of potential but for now still underwhelm.

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CES was a giant exercise in AI gaslighting. - Fast Company

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Tesla says Optimus robots will ship this year. Yahoo Finance

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Is Elon Musk saddling Tesla public shareholders with expenses that also/mostly benefit xAI and private shareholders, and if so, can anyone hold him accountable? - The Verge

Amazing affordable TVs, enshittified with AI - Ars Technica

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Better living through ChatGPT - Reddit

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"All an AI bubble takes is faith, trust, and pixie dust" - Futurism

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Zuck says Meta will have AIs replace mid-level engineers this year, lots Redditors have thoughts about that. - Reddit

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Fortunately our AI is trained on Reddit and social media, so it mostly just shitposts. - The Babylon Bee

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We have seen the future and it does not work. - The Verge

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161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted humans would evolve into sheep farmed by the intelligent machines we created. - Ars Technica

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AI is supposed to reduce health care costs, but it needs people to run it and it isn't cheap because VCs need ROI. - SF Chronicle

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Child turns off AI in all her plushies and plays with them like regular dolls, like some kind of weirdo. - Futurism

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OpenAI o1 stumped by New York TImes Connections word game - Futurism

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Why Are People Blaming ChatGPT for the Los Angeles Fires? - The Cut

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Microsoft claims new technique lets a small LLM model beat o1-preview at math - VentureBeat

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Google Turns Your Activity History Into a Daily AI-Powered Podcast - CNET

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LA fire-related deepfakes run wild - Decrypt

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Midjourney teases v7 in a couple of months, possible entry into video. - Decrypt

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