AI Reading for Saturday October 12
Tesla Shows Off Talking Robot That Sounds an Awful Lot Like a Guy Speaking Into a Microphone - Futurism
Many are saying some of the Optimus robots were not fully autonomous, but tele-operated, and Tesla pointedly does not seem to have denied it.
Tesla stock ends the day down $20, many express skepticism of robotaxi announcement. - Business Insider
An interview with the co-CEO of Waymo, and comparing Tesla to Waymo. - Understandingai.org
Dario Amodei: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better. - darioamodei.com
Be afraid: the IRS will use AI to conduct more tax audits. - Yahoo
Samsung backs Liner, a scholarly AI chatbot for students and academics - Gadgets 360
Schools use AI and facial recognition to catch smoking in the boys' room. - The Denver Post
Use terrorism and school shooters to justify pervasive surveillance infrastructure, which you then use to stifle norm-breaking or dissent and enforce social control.
Silicon Valley debating whether AI drones and robots should be licensed to kill - TechCrunch
Bengio: We're 'creating monsters more powerful than us' - Yahoo Finance
Clouseau: does your minkey-god have a li-cense? - Vox
OpenAI now has an experimental multi-agent framework. - GitHub
For most agentic purposes you don't really need a multi-agent framework, just like for most application dev you don't need Kubernetes. Adds complexity. But at some point you might need it or it might help, if you can cleanly separate tasks/concerns.
When Your Robot Vacuum Gets Hacked to Shout Slurs at You - VICE
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