AI Reading for Sunday December 29
Google gave OpenAI a run for their money in 2024 - CNBC
Sundar Pichai said Gemini will be Google’s biggest focus in 2025 - TechCrunch
Maybe Google’s focus should be making search suck less - ChuckWNelson.com
At the moment, Gemini 2.0 is the leader in overall quality, context size and multimodality, if not by much. OpenAI made big claims for o3, they need to deliver and also replace GPT-4. Far cry from same time last year when OpenAI was the clear leader by a large margin, today Google, Anthropic and a few others are really nipping at their heels. And small models have closed much of the gap with frontier models.
OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's family demand FBI investigate death - the Guardian
Anthropic blog: Building effective agents - Anthropic
Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth - FT
AI everywhere in 2025. - WSJ
Good news everyone! AI will take care of all the good parts of being human, so you can focus entirely on anxiety, angst and anomie. - Washington Post
The story of Israel’s AI death machine. - Washington Post
Countries test facial recognition and apps for passport-free travel. - WIRED
AI helps detect and treat skin cancer - The Brighter Side of News
Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades. - The Guardian
Various levels of catastrophe up to civilizational collapse seem an order of magnitude more likely than actual human extinction so 10% on extinction is pretty pretty not good.
Will infrastructure hold back US AI? - NY Times
Asking ChatGPT for its hottest take. - Rreddit
Using AI, and grapes, to find true love - New York Post
Humanoid Robots to Watch in 2025 - Video - CNET
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