xAI has been offering the hugest pay packages because it's lagging, and that's how it's trying to gain a critical mass of top talent. So AI engineers are leaving Tesla to join xAI. Elon Musk blames OpenAI, natch. - Business Insider
See also, WSJ. The Information.
Recording artists' open letter calls on AI developers, technology companies, platforms, and digital music services to stop using AI to "infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists." - Ars Technica
Google yeeted a giant sponcon insert about what it's up to, to win over Atlantic readers, the presumed intelligentsia, glitterati and bloggerati, starting with this Demis Hassabis interview. - The Atlantic
Apple reportedly looking into consumer robots. - ZDNET
Bloomberg story - Bloomberg
Google reportedly looks at putting advanced AI search features behind that $20/month subscription paywall. - Ars Technica
Gen AI might be the killer app for AR if smart glasses can really understand the reality you are seeing and hearing as they augment it, a round up of the intense activity in the space. - Computerworld
Ideating and mind mapping with an AR assist, not sure it's ready for prime time but the potential seems to be there. - Twitter
DARPA looks at AI to improve infosec, from creating secure code to autonomous agents for detecting cybersecurity issues. - The Reg
An AI that will generate a complete book based on a prompt. If you always wanted to 'write' a book but thought you needed an army of assistants like James Michener, now is your chance - Twitter
A wave of smart AI home appliances is coming, fridges that track what food goes in and let you converse with them about what you can cook, ovens that timelapse your food cooking for Instagram, who knows what else they will come up with. - homesandgardens.com
The AI Instagram oven - manofmany.com
Codium jumps into the Devin full software dev cycle AI robot space
Stability AI's new audio model creates three-minute tracks from a single text prompt. - ZDNET
In a first, FDA authorizes AI-driven test to predict sepsis in hospitals. - Washington Post
‘Lavender’, The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing in Gaza: For every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians, or more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander. Precision v. recall FTW? - +972 Magazine
Feels like that Lavender type AI in the field would be susceptible to adversarial attacks where its enemy could make it bomb innocuous stuff, or stuff they want it to bomb but maybe you don't. - NDTV.com
MBA courses adopt AI, task students with automating the jobs they are applying for.
What, I can’t just publish my data science assistant that has access to my library of data science textbooks? - WIRED
A look at Nightshade, which lets artists put adversarial attacks in their images to fool gen AI into hallucinating cats. - NBC News
Meta AI won't make an Asian man with a White woman, eliciting performative outrage from some snowflakes. - Mail Online
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