AI Reading for Saturday March 8

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Apple Delays Siri Upgrade Indefinitely as AI Concerns Escalate

Is it Zune bad? or Apple Maps bad? - YouTube

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Google Is Still Behind in AI. Why?

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Is Google AI mode just 'AI slop' mode? - Futurism

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US drops some claims like bid to make Google sell AI investments like Anthropic, still wants Chrome divested. - Reuters

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What does “PhD-level” AI even mean? OpenAI’s rumored $20,000 agent plan explained. - Ars Technica

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Sam Altman's 'proof of human' startup. - WSJ

Sounds crazy but I don't know how you avoid this. You probably need to regulate what it can be used for, for privacy and security reasons, the way you can't require SS number for everything and have PCI rules for credit cards.

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Microsoft has internal models competitive with OpenAI in testing, along with other 3rd-party models, looks to pivot from exclusive or OpenAI-first partnership. - TechCrunch

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More AI in the military. VCs love it but some are wary. - Business Insider

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Increasingly isolated people turn more to chatbots. - NBC News

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Wayfair to cut 340 tech jobs and move to AI - WSJ

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AI cybersecurity suite (not suit) helps scan logs and resolve network security alerts - TechCrunch

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Agents for medical case management - Marktechpost

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Interpretability is a huge problem in making high stakes decisions with AI. - The Register

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AI must be designed help clinicians process information and enhance their judgment, but ofc it will tend to bias decisions in certain directions, some users might be lazy, insurance will want to go with AI to reduce costs, need to be very very careful. - Forbes

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Ex-DeepMind Researchers’ New Startup Reflection Aims for Superintelligence - Bloomberg

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AI-generated hymns, sermons and prayers: touched by grace, or the devil's handiwork? - New York Post

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