AI Reading for Sunday March 23
Privacy and on-device AI could be holding back Apple Intelligence and Siri. - WIRED
If you can run DeepSeek R1 on a big Mac, might be value in letting stuff like Apple Intelligence connect to local models, or your own VM in the cloud, which is sort of how they said they were approaching it.
A machine-washable computer network that can be woven into your clothes - Nature
Microsoft AI Releases RD-Agent: An AI-Driven Tool for Performing R&D with LLM-based Agents - Marktechpost
Fin-R1: A Specialized Large Language Model for Financial Reasoning and Decision-Making - Marktechpost
Mercedes trials Apollo robots from Apptronik - YouTube
TSMC 2nm process ramping up successfully for iPhone and other chips - MacRumors
Autonomous mine hunter joins the Royal Navy - The National Interest
breaks with Royal Navy traditions, like rum, sodomy and the lash
Human-level AI is just a few ‘miracles’ away, Microsoft pioneer Nathan Myhrvold says. - Geekwire
Knowledge graph representation, and the ability to plug it into a deep model with modest or no retraining, or learn on the fly, would get you most of the way there I think.
Health systems across the US will begin using robots to draw blood - End Time Headlines
Yeah that's not gonna make me jumpy or flinchy at all. Also, everything today feels like End Time Headlines.
Former Cruise CEO Vogt's non-humanoid robotics startup valued at $2 billion in new $150m funding - Yahoo
OpenStreetMap call to use volunteers with AI and human in the loop to help improve object labeling. - Mozilla.ai
I wonder how hard it would be to distribute cheap 360º cameras with GPS that people could mount on their vehicles or helmets and contribute data to OpenStreetMap
CEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging “world free of fraud” sentenced for fraud - Ars Technica
I loved this: My date used AI to psychologically profile me. Is that OK? - FT
A Kickstarter medical grade ring wearable without a subscription - Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
How do we feel about all the info the Federal government has about you getting aggregated into an AI? - White House
Probably NBD, just a DOGE supercomputer with access to all your records from IRS, SS/Medicaid, public assistance, student loans, Veterans/federal employment, law enforcement/background checks, travel/immigration. Also gotta love the part of the Columbia extortion racket which is no masks, meanwhile Musk has people at all the protests taking pictures of everyone.
Do not like. Big thumbs down. Double-plus-ungood.
I read and call bullshit so you don’t have to
Not to be too Marvin the Paranoid Android but some days I read so much nonsense breathless credulous AI hype and I'm like, damn, why'd I study linear algebra and neural networks to read papers at even my midwit level, to have to listen to so much bullshit thought leadership.
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