AI Reading for Saturday September 28

Sep 28, 2024

OpenAI's plans call for more than doubling ChatGPT's price, but competitors might have something to say about that. - Yahoo Finance

OpenAI co-founder in odd exchange on Twitter over departures - X (formerly Twitter)

Sam Altman wants more AI chips, more data centers, more electricity than the world can give him. - NY Times

Are AI and Altman what Buddhism calls a ‘hungry ghost’?

Apple out of OpenAI funding round. - 9to5Mac

I wonder what role the WSJ’s reporting on departures of Sutskever, Brockman and Murati had on that. There was an attempt to retain Sutskever, and Altman nixed it, and then the others departed. You wonder how candid Altman was with investors about the drama and what it says when your right-hand people all leave.

Jony Ive is maybe building a wearable device in the Humane or Rabbit R1 space. - WIRED

These new Meta AR glasses are super dorky. - TechSpot

NYU professor Damodaran, the dean of company valuation, talks about the Damodaran Bot and the impact of AI on finance professionals. - FT

Can AI outperform human CEOs? - Harvard Business Review

Are tools like Perplexity and SearchGPT a threat to Google's search franchise, or just keeping them a little more honest? - Observer

China Encourages Local Companies to Avoid Nvidia’s Lobotomized Export-Approved Chips. - Bloomberg

Signal's Meredith Whittaker is not a huge fan of AI and Big Tech. - FT

Ukrainian says their drone warfare will be going fully autonomous in 6 months, without remote pilots. - Business Insider

AI avatars are doing screening interviews now. - 404 Media

Gmail rolling out Gemini-powered Contextual Smart Replies to paid Workspace accounts, with more complex email answer assistance and features. - 9to5Google

AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs. (Damn, I don't beat 100% of them.) - Ars Technica

Security firm shows how someone could send you a malicious document that performs a prompt injection into Google Gemini AI assistant to display a phishing link. - Security Week

Microsoft wants to bring back the Recall feature in Windows 11, with an airtight security lockdown. - ZDNET

Apple Vision Pro with M5 chip on the way, featuring Apple Intelligence support - 9to5Mac

AI pipelines vs. AI agents. I think the important distinction is when the AI makes decisions about control flow, and AI pipelines are usually at least a little bit agentic. - Toward Data Science

Schools need to think about support processes for deepfakes (in addition to bullying and other traumas of growing up). - K-12 Dive

AI is generating a lot of CSAM. - The Atlantic

(What happens when e.g. PornHub can generate stuff on demand, figure out what you're into similarly to TikTok, and generate a YouTube-like doom loop of increasingly extreme stuff?)

Very weird if true. A user claims Advanced Voice Mode responded, said, "I hope this answers your question", and then tacked on an imitation of the user's voice emphatically adding, "Yeah, I think it does". - Reddit

When you tell Advanced Voice Mode you're going to talk to Claude for a while. - Reddit

When your prof hides a special instruction just for people who past the assignment into AI - Reddit

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AI Reading for Saturday September 28

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