AI Reading for Saturday June 15
The Big AI Question: Are You Ready to Pay for It? - WSJ
I can't shake the nagging feeling that Apple is going to end up charging $40/month for fancy AI features. When have they not charged a premium?
Software was eating the world. Could AI now eat software? - Markets Insider
In EU, Meta halts plans to train AI on all your Facebook and Instagram data - Ars Technica
Surveillance capitalism still A-OK in USA though. A lot of wacko conspiracy theorists like Elon Musk are going bananas over the ex-NSA chief joining OpenAI’s board. X even added a helpful community note. I can’t really let this one pass either, from the guy who tests Neuralink in gruesome fashion on monkeys.
OpenAI considers restructuring as a for-profit benefit corporation. - The Information
Mustafa Suleyman is reviewing OpenAI code, which is a bit awkward. - Semafor
Nvidia released a big open-source model for synthetic data generation - VentureBeat
In Turing test, GPT-4 judged human 54% of the time vs. 67% for actual live humans. - BGR
A simple CAPTCHA that eludes AI. To be fair, a trained or fine-tuned algo that detects objects and passes them to a counter would usually get it. - Mind Matters
Apple execs mock AI PCs, Microsoft Recall. - PCMAG
The one where Elon Musk asked Geoffrey Hinton to join an xAI advisory board - Observer
Martin Luther King rises to endorse MAGA congressional hopeful. - The New Republic
The AI, crypto, and Trump scams converge in a singularity of stupid. - Finbold
Call centers get 'emotion-canceling' AI filters to translate angry callers. - NewsBytes
Shades of Obama's anger translator, damn I need that!
Musk's secret plan to make Tesla worth $30T - The Onion
Memes brought to life by Luma - Reddit
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