AI Reading for Sunday March 2
China's 'Fantastic Four' tech entrepreneurs - South China Morning Post
What happens when intelligence is free? - Bloomberg
Currently best case is AI is a force multiplier. You drop the cost of some tasks by an order of magnitude, it pushes the envelope, but it doesn't end scarcity. Energy and other constraints become a limiting factor.
AI firms apply distillation to make models cheaper and faster, and to copy others' models. - FT
Upload a VB executable to Claude, get Python back - Reddit
Oscars rekindle controversies over AI in films. - Fast Company
AWS on how financial firms are using AI - Business Insider
AI said to improve code quality but doesn't save time on reviews. - avikalpg.github.io
Masa Son wants to borrow $16b. - The Information
Inception Labs releases Mercury Coder, a diffusion LLM breaking from the transformer approach. - Hacker Noon
Zapier says they were hacked. - The Verge
You can get a lot of juice for the squeeze writing AI agents in the cloud with Zapier and similar services but ya know, you hook it up to Netsuite where you do accounting and connect to banks, and CRM and HR and payroll stuff and then blammo
Who says robots need 5 fingers - Reddit
AI and the modern fascist, a perfect match made in hell - New Socialist
What I did this week
Fired the people modeling hurricanes at NOAA and curing cancer at NIH
Cut off foreign aid for AIDS drugs, Ebola and oxygen tanks.
Fed the agencies with tech veterans actually making government more efficient into the wood chipper
Cozied up to Putin and smeared the people he invaded who are dying for freedom. Cuz, you know we have always been at war with Eastasia, and Putin loves white people, oligarchs, strongmen, and pumping Trump / Krasnov propaganda everywhere. But I’m definitely not a Russian asset, even if I’m doing everything Putin could want to undermine the US and democracy!
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