AI Reading for Thursday December 26
What's he building in there?
Microsoft Looking for an Open Relationship With OpenAI - Gizmodo
Microsoft Is Forcing Its AI Assistant on People—and Forcing Them To Pay - WSJ
OpenAI Has Discussed Making a Humanoid Robot - The Information
Suchir Balaji's brave mom talks about his life, death, and disillusionment with OpenAI: 'He felt AI is a harm to humanity' - Business Insider
Are you safe alone in a Waymo? - Washington Post
Seems like they need panic buttons, ability to have cops intercept them. AI automation is never foolproof and you generally need a way for humans to get involved quickly. If you want driverless long distance trucks, maybe you need convoys with a couple of humans, or quick on-call people all along the route. If not, Christopher Moltosanti’s crew might have a field day hijacking them.
Can AI help doctors focus on patients by automating paperwork? - Washington Post
AI Models Get Too Smart for Existing Benchmarks. New Evals Race to Catch Up. - TIME
Notes on DeepSeek v3 so far - Simon Willison
When a model claims it’s from OpenAI, it was probably trained on some OpenAI convos?
Trying out QvQ—Qwen’s new visual reasoning model - Simon Willison
Chinese models like Yi, Qwen, DeepSeek are highly ranked. - WSJ
AI tracks endangered spider monkeys in the jungle, recognizing individuals from their calls. - Fast Company
Google is using Claude to improve Gemini AI. Presumably under license, they have a big investment in Anthropic? - TechCrunch
An A.I. Boom Makes Electricians Flock to Central Washington. - NY Times
A Sam Altman thread where he asked people what OpenAI should build in 2025 - X (formerly Twitter)
I don't do X any more, but I would merge the custom GPTs and Assistants APIs. Make a custom GPT an Assistants API that is in the GPT store.
Somebody asked about removing guardrails. OK, you could have grownup mode. But then people will get outraged. Whoever thinks an unbiased piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is nor e'er shall be.
AI robots to perform lab experiments. - Gadgets 360
Elon Musk's xAI gets 150MW power approval to run 100,000 GPUs at once. - TechRadar
xAI testing a standalone website and chatbot app. - TechCrunch
xAI announced this $6b raise a few weeks ago, but the SEC filing landed so people are talking about it. - Yahoo Finance
Reminds me of the Tom Waits track, ‘What’s he building?’. So far xAI is kind of an also-ran. Although the foundation model has caught up to the leaders, xAI hasn’t shown anything product-wise that has really moved the needle or got traction. Knowing how these techbros think, I wonder what unprecedented projects of propaganda and social control are planned for this thing. “Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational shitposting machine.” Musk gets a lot of hype but whether it’s self driving, cheap mass market EVs, brain computer interface, or AI, he is way behind the leaders. SpaceX is cool though.
Vendors of human-replacing AI start saying the quiet part out loud - The Register
Databricks exec says AI recruitment is like looking for LeBron James, there are about as many people who can build frontier AI as NBA players. - Business Insider
Appeal to AI is the new appeal to authority fallacy - The Verge
Xooglers dominate the AI startup scene. - Observer
Coming to Theaters: An AI-Generated Bollywood Movie - IEEE Spectrum
Not that much daylight between some of those and AI slop to start with LOL
AI slop Christmas music - 404 Media
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