AI Reading for Saturday July 27
Llama 3.1 405b is about the same price as GPT-4o but slower, still no evidence it’s any better, but it’s ‘open source’ until Zuck figures out something that will make him richer faster. - Artificial Analysis
Stephen Fry voices a video about how AI will probably kill us all. - YouTube
Waymo sues anti-robotaxi neo-Luddites. - WIRED
Baltimore company shows off robo-cop surveillance device in a church. - WBAL
Some cool AI tooling projects - HackerNoon
DARPA contest to scan source code, find and fix security vulnerabilities. Leaders get more funding along the way and winner gets $2m. - Washington Post
Scientists study LLMs kind of like they study the brain. Try stuff and see what lights up. - Vox
Microsoft is trying to turning AI skeptics into AI power users - VentureBeat
Will AI boyfriends kill pulp romance novels? - UnHerd
Law firm reviews the best AI movies - JD Supra
Get an exoskeleton assist on your hike. - Fast Company
Apple signs on to voluntary safety guidelines. - 9to5Mac
Leaked docs suggest Runway trained on YouTube videos without permission. - 404 Media
Amazon hypes its in-house AI silicon to compete with Nvidia
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