AI Reading for Saturday July 19

OpenAI's new ChatGPT agent is here — 5 features that change everything - Tom's Guide

OpenAI says they have achieved gold medal-level AI performance on International Math Olympiad problems. - X

Sounds more like an AlphaGo project with deep search and reinforcement learning, not incremental improvements and scaling on reasoning models. Or hype/BS/training data contamination.

When OpenAI agents browse using a GUI, what browser are they using? - ZDNET

A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say - Futurism

OpenAI and Harvard researcher calls release of Grok 4 without a safety card 'irresponsible', but OpenAI sometimes rushes stuff too. - Artificial Intelligence News

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google may disrupt education market with new AI tools - Bleeping Computer

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears - The Wall Street Journal

Altman must have called Mark Chen and saying, WTF were you thinking

Meta refuses to sign EU AI Code of Practice. - TechCrunch

They seem unspecific about what they object to, it's just, we refuse meaningful oversight, we can do whatever we want.

EU issues guidelines clarifying obligations and fines (up to 7% turnover) for systemic-risk AI models under the AI Act. - Reuters

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data - MIT Technology Review

Dario Amodei has warned AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, but most AI leaders think it will take longer - Business Insider

AI might radically change your job in 5 years if not eliminate it, though - ZDNET

Most of the people in AI think there is a non-negligible chance it will destroy civilization as we know it, and yet they keep building it. (and in Meta's case rejecting any meaningful oversight) - Vox

The next AI breakthrough will be how well your agent knows you - Semafor

See Silver and Sutton’s ‘The Age of Experience’. Microsoft is collecting Recall screenshots to train AI on everything you do.

The AI era means the internet is splitting in two: one for people, another for the bots (and the one for the people might have to lock out the bots or go out of business) - Quartz

A guide to AI agents: patterns, frameworks, applications - Druce.ai

saw some ‘definitive guides’ and decided mine would be better.

I think e.g. Shopify and Amazon and e-commerce vendors and content sites release more REST APIs and MCP servers, designed for bots to plug into. Bots get redirected to those services which will be not very web-like.

AI-Related Capex is Eating the Economy - Paul Kedrosky

Elon Musk says we're in the "intelligence big bang" — after warning that a power crunch could kill the AI revolution this year - Windows Central

Ex-Google CEO Schmidt says superintelligence is tech's holy grail—but electric power is a limiting factor and the US is ill-prepared (as China surges forward on clean energy, batteries and greentech) - Fortune

there are breakthroughs like multi-token prediction and speculative decoding that make this stuff more efficient. this stuff gets cheaper and better faster than Moore’s law, seems better to wait a little than spend $7T on the current generation of chips. slowing down 10 years might be good to make the disruption curve more manageable.

How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper - Quanta Magazine

Speculative decoding, pairing small models with big ones for better performance. - ctech

Uber wants to deploy 20,000 Lucid autonomous taxis and build self-driving software on Nvidia's platform via a startup it invested in. - SiliconANGLE

BI took 5 rides in Tesla Robotaxis. They were impressive — but there were some bumps. - Business Insider

Experts lay into Tesla safety in federal autopilot trial - Ars Technica

AI and trolls are tricking people into trying to travel to places that don't exist - TechRadar

AI doesn't replace artists, it replaces having to pay them - The New York Times

Described tummy ache to GPT, told me to go to ER. CT scan says appendicitis. - Reddit

Imagine an app on your phone to detect disease from eye scans, monitoring your vitals - TrendHunter.com

seems like a good thing, imagine if if it was trained specifically for medical stuff and had access to wearable devices. Hell, imagine in home blood tests, go full Theranos / Star Trek tricorder.

A Minnesota startup received FDA clearance for an AI-powered wristband to treat essential tremor - Star Tribune

AI helps drugs target 'undruggable' proteins - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Gabe Newell thinks AI tools will result in a 'funny situation' where people who don't know how to program become 'more effective developers of value' than those who've been at it for a decade - PC Gamer

AI That Warps Live Video in Real Time - WIRED

Angel investors use data-driven AI to evaluate startups, analyze market potential, and assess founder profiles for early-stage investment decisions. - TrendHunter.com

100-year-old woman from Argentina cries seeing a video of her late husband, animated with AI - www.tiktok.com

China’s first humanoid robot that can change its own batteries - YouTube

I spoke with an AI version of myself, thanks to Hume's free tool - how to try it - ZDNET

Follow the latest AI headlines via SkynetAndChill.com on Bluesky