AI Reading for Sunday March 31
AI takes over drug development. - The Economist
Fed economists ask, does gen-AI represent a turning point in the labor share of national income, and will it go up or down? - Philadelphia Fed
Will gen-AI make labor more productive and workers more empowered, or gig-ify everything? - Politico
Devin creator Cognition Labs seeks $2b valuation - WSJ
OpenDevin attempts to replicate the Devin AI software engineer with open source - Geeky Gadgets
How Stability AI’s Founder Tanked His Billion-Dollar Startup - Forbes
Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque going wild in this Reddit thread.
NYT on OpenAI's Voice Engine. Not super clear how it compares to similar ElevenLabs and Meta tech. - NYT
What Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis has to teach us about the AI revolution. - Bloomberg
Self-driving trucks coming to America's highways. - Washington Post
I could see 2 drivers accompanying a 10-truck train between depots without local driving. Independent self-driving trucks can get stuck in the middle of nowhere or hijacked, and longer trains can create traffic problems.
MIT paper starts to figure out how LLMs store a knowledge graph. - MIT News
IIUC they write functions that look up information in the params to answer questions like, what instrument does Miles Davis play, without running the full LLM. If you know how info is stored, then you can update it without retraining.
Satya Nadella is truly the GOAT, says his greatest use case for gen-AI was helping him understand Heidegger. - Business Insider
"Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells." Heidegger believed that language is not just a tool for communication but the very medium through which the essence of being and existence is revealed and understood.
A Nikkei interview with Geoffrey Hinton. - Nikkei Asia
Google paper proposes AutoBNN for time series forecasting (Bayesian Neural Networks)
Sharp rise in frequency of words like 'delve' suggests ChatGPT is used heavily in academic writing.
AI and intimacy: science, sex and robots. - TechCrunch
Boston Dynamics robot dog took a bullet in Boston incident. - Business Insider
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