AI Reading for Saturday October 26
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Gemini 2.0 is coming out soon, but rumored to not be as huge an improvement as Google hoped. - The Verge
Briefly Gemini 1.5 was atop the leaderboard, also had multimodality and long context. OpenAI has rallied but Gemini remains super strong. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google have similar capabilities for most tasks and each has unique abilities where it is the leader.
Waymo raised $5.6 billion to expand to more cities, distributed via the Uber app. - The Verge
Perplexity, seeking $8b or $9b valuation, is growing fast amid lawsuits, had many takeover offers in 2023. - The Information
Satya Nadella talks up AI in investor letter. - LinkedIn
Smartphone buyers care more about battery life and cameras than AI - CNET
How to run local LLMs on your laptop - Geeky Gadgets
Download GGUFs from HuggingFace like highly-ranked Gemma 9b SimPO
Reuters licenses news content to Meta for AI chatbots. - Reuters
Is AI killing the MBA? - Forbes
Christmas classic Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee gets a Spanish version, courtesy of AI - TechCrunch
AI says one face in a Raphael painting is probably painted by one of his students - ScienceAlert
Hariri: More than killer robots, beware the AI algorithms that implicitly redefine human values. - FT
Although robot soldiers and cops and surveillance with the same algos + weapons seem pretty dangerous too and are getting deployed in the field at scale. A lot of human values get implicitly defined by powerful interests, and explicitly. Like a diamond is forever and you need to spend 2 months’s salary on a rock, or what is female beauty or femininity, maybe think critically about those too.
(Wait, never mind, don’t think critically, that would be ‘woke’ according to some dumbasses 🙄. Is thinking critically but only about people and ideologies that don’t agree with your priors bad? 🤔)
Epic if ultimately disappointing Game 1, anybody got Yankee Stadium tickets? 🤞
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