AI Reading for Saturday May 4

How much will hackers, trolls and AI deepfakes upset the 2024 election? - LA Times

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Is humanity one convincing deepfake away from a global catastrophe? - The Hill

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Some rumors about OS18, Siri upgrade, on-device LLM summarization, completion. - AppleInsider

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Musk wants to use AI to summarize news. OK but it's been hallucinating a lot lately. - Business Insider

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Robot makers face skepticism after Musk fakes demos. - Gizmodo

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Air Force secretary flies in autonomous jet. - Sky News

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Via Karpathy, should the next Voyager spacecraft include an LLM and instructions for any alien civilization that finds it on how to talk to us? If they are sufficiently advanced to understand a cartoon explanation of an LLM, they are sufficiently advanced to figure out how to talk to us on their own LOL. - Ars Technica

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AI engineers talk about the craziness they face. - CNBC

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Interesting project - The Solo Founder

1. Download a bunch of books

2. Make an AI to summarize them and make YouTube shorts about them

3. Don't: profit

4. Do: hate yourself

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Training LLMs on structured data like relational databases and knowledge graphs. - arXiv.org

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Get an Apple Vision Pro for 1/2 price on eBay - The Verge

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Is Meta improbably winning the AR race? - The Verge

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Google Cloud touts its AI chip scheduler, that lets clients specify the jobs they have, like I need 100 H100s for 10 days, join a dynamic scheduling queue with a utilization optimizer. - Business Insider

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Something that says it’s AI and sounds like a deep web search engine is used to introduce unverifiable claims in court under false pretenses, like whether it was peer-reviewed. - NBC News

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A golden age of freelancing with AI assistance? - Fast Company

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@drfeifei raised $3m for a 'spatial reasoning' startup. - Reuters

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If you were wondering what $3m of Nvidia Blackwell GPU compute looks like - ExtremeTech

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Another profile of CoreWeave, which builds GPU farms and rents out cloud GPUs - WIRED

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An AI-generated song from Randy Travis. - 60 Minutes

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A furniture collaboration between Philippe Starck and gen-AI? - Design Milk

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Setting the Fed statement to music - Sona

If ChatGPT could sing - Sonauto

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AI or not? chatroulette style game. I tried it, was a bit lame. - pcgamer

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Worst AI-written article of all time might be a Yahoo article on the worst car users ever owned, featuring nonexistent models and other shenanigans. - The Autopian

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