AI Reading for Saturday June 8
The AI bill a lot of Big Tech and VC is so unhappy about. - FT
More, including the ‘kill switch’. - Ars Technica
The 'liberty for the powerful, screw liberty and fairness for the serfs' caucus is big mad, unsurprisingly. - Reason.com
The EU approach is not crazy, if you're a large firm, you have to take steps so AI products aren't used to break laws, commit fraud, deepfake, spam, harass people. But as AI gets powerful, might have to apply more broadly, to e.g. models on Hugging Face, AWS.
Google’s and Microsoft’s AI Chatbots Refuse to Say Who Won the 2020 US Election. - WIRED
AI answers to election questions are wrong a lot - NBC
Gemini is pretty reticent on political stuff, usually just says, try a Google Search.
Forbes says Perplexity summary pages are ripping off their articles.
Forbes editor: it's not "rough", it's theft. - X (formerly Twitter)
Is AI the greatest IP theft and enshittification in history? - BGR
Is Sam Altman the ultimate personality hire/hype man, compared to Demis Hassabis who is sort of the ultimate scientist with stuff like AlphaFold and AlphaGo and DQNs? - Business Insider
Microsoft is recalling Recall, making it an opt-in feature. - CNBC
McKinsey talks to Reid Hoffman about AI as the new 'steam engine of the mind' - McKinsey & Company
Are human-like voice AI agents the future of college recruiting and sales? - Fast Company
The Dystopian Future of AI Warfare - YouTube
Iran uses AI to crack down on women. Don’t give Fox viewers any more bright ideas. - Fox News
An open-source framework for reinforcement learning in trading - HackerNoon
I'm here for the robot vs. human power slap league (parody) - YouTube
Chinese company releases Sora competitor that looks pretty good. - Tom's Guide
AGI accurately predicted (2016) - YouTube
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