AI Reading for Saturday July 13

Big if true: details of OpenAI 'Strawberry' a/k/a Q* leak (from a former employee sounds like), may have been demoed to a large group internally last week with much improved planning, reasoning, logical, problem-solving capabilities. - Reuters

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Meta reportedly plans to release a 405b-parameter open source Llama 3 model on July 23 - The Information

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AI is coming for accounting and financial management but maybe not yet. - Forbes

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China audiences mock AI rejuvenation of Jackie Chan. - South China Morning Post

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Is the AI bubble about to burst in Hollywood? I think some uses of AI are like 3D TVs and make things no better and possibly worse, and you have to stay human-centered. On the whole though, giving computers the power of natural language understanding and human speech is kind of a big deal. - No Film School

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AI skepticism is on the rise. I think there's a strain that says AI hype is way overblown (true) and there will be financial failures (true) and there's a strain of AI-haters who say it's useless and a nothingburger (false). - Tech Brew

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Acemoglu's skepticism about the GDP impact. - NY Times

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Perplexity and RAG and the evolution of search. It seems like Google fixed a lot of their AI Overview issues by downgrading Quora and Reddit and reducing the number of queries that get AI overviews. - Freethink

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Google research scales mixture of experts models to millions of small models that can do different things well. - VentureBeat

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AI improves predictions of Alzheimer's progress. - MedicalXpress

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AI shown to successfully predict prostate cancer recurrence. - MedicalXpress

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Many people think AI has some form of conscious experience. - Tech Times

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Jamie Dimon is super pumped about AI. - Entrepreneur

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Rufus, Amazon's shopping assistant chatbot, now live for all US customers in the mobile app. - TechCrunch

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Dropbase is a prompt-based Web app builder. - Dropbase

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Use AI to generate a full-blown excuse narrative no one can poke holes in. - Forbes

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