AI Reading for Thursday April 25
AI in asset management. - HackerNoon
Will AI enable personalized deep medicine? - The Conversation
Or will AI 'enshittify' medicine even further as everyone looks to automate, layoff and cut costs? - 404 Media
Zuck to investors: it will take years to make money from tens of billions of investment in gen AI, your returns might suffer, but that is a sacrifice I, for one, am willing to make. Stock plunges 15%. Should have mentioned a sentient robot maybe? - The Verge
In B2B AI, if companies understand customer interactions better, automate, respond faster better, those are big wins they will pay big bucks to Microsoft for. For B2C like Meta, payoff is fuzzier, consumer adoption curve is longer, people need to learn and adapt, might cannibalize social media.
If you're Apple, you can sell hardware and get a nice upgrade cycle from AI features, you can charge for some subscription services, you can target better ads, Meta it's just the latter and navigating evolving social media might be challenging. I wonder how much they bid for TikTok LOL.
AI girlfriend ads swamp Facebook. - WIRED
NYT's Brian Chen puts Meta's AI through its paces. - NYT
Apple releases small language models with good performance. Microsoft's latest Phi-3 probably still leads the category. - VentureBeat
OpenELM paper from Apple - arXiv.org
Are we heading into an AI winter because bottom line benefits of gen AI are limited and elusive? - Fast Company
Synthesia makes realistic video avatars of you that can synthesize text in your image and voice. - TechCrunch
Using Gemini 1.5 with video. I've tried it, it worked OK, not perfect or great. - Medium
The End of the Web as We Know It? From SEO to LLM-O. - Bruce Schneier
Social media fills up with gen-AI spam. - The Conversation
Drexel researchers claim success detecting gen-AI images - Neuroscience News
Tupac Shakur’s Estate Threatens to Sue Drake Over Diss Track Featuring AI-Generated Tupac Voice - Billboard
The Rabbit R1 reviews are here. Consensus seems to be that it’s very much a work in progress, needs more app integrations. - The Verge
Augment, yet another big-time coding assistant, emerges from stealth with $252m in funding. - TechCrunch
AI lets in-store billboards track how many people read them. - Chain Store Age
Snowflake releases its own 'Arctic' LLM. - TechCrunch
Efficient finetuning of Llama 3 with FSDP QDoRA - Answer.AI
Fine-tuning Llama-3 on your own dataset. - philschmid blog
A nice recent paper to add to my pile: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey - arXiv.org
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