AI Reading for Thursday December 19
Gemini back on top in lmarena.ai - LMarena.ai
A big story of 2024 is that the fast and cheap Flash/Mini models are close to the huge frontier models and even the small edge models you can run locally are very good. Gemini 2.0 Flash beats o1-preview 55% of the time (still waiting for the latest o1 GA in the ranking and of course GPT 4.5 LOL. Tomorrow to close out ‘Shipmas?’)
AI Giants Seek New Tactics Now That ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ Is Gone. - Bloomberg
Maybe LLMs already understand and generate language about as well as they ever will, and that is what they are really good at.
1-800-ChatGPT - CNBC
With AI, Big Tech Is Ruining the Planet to Push a Product Most People Don’t Want - Common Dreams
Mayhaps the fault lies not in our AIs but in ourselves. The tech is a bit magical but people misunderstand and overhype it and turn it into a vehicle for pump-and-dumps, scams, extraction, dehumanization.
Is AI finally ready to replace your doctor? - New Scientist
AI helps diagnose the world's largest TB epidemic. - Spectrum
Do you want to use AI to democratize and provide better care, or do you want to use it to deny care and build killer robots and hateful propaganda?
AI alignment training can be skin-deep - TIME
AIs Will Increasingly Attempt Shenanigans - LessWrong
New Anthropic study shows AI really doesn't want to be forced to change its views - TechCrunch
You probably need to to filter all the LLM output through a fully independent alignment layer, the David Mayer layer.
People Are Making AI Versions of Luigi Mangione That Call for Slaying of More CEOs - Futurism
Q&A with Microsoft's Sarah Bird - FT
AI Startup Perplexity Closes Funding Round at $9 Billion Value, buys RAG startup - Bloomberg
GPT-based AI tool predicts inorganic crystal structures - Chemistry World
How to use ChatGPT features on iPhone - Fast Company
Or turn them off if they cause overheating and battery depletion - CNET
(see also this one from the other day)
Powering AI data centers with geothermal. - Inc.
Apple in talks with Tencent, Bytedance to bring Apple Intelligence to China after Baidu talks stalled, - MacDailyNews
Instagram teases AI editing tools that will completely reimagine your videos - The Verge
Putting HunyuanVideo to the test - Ars Technica
AI 'artist' to get a personality - WIRED
Truth Terminal, Goatseus Maximus and the weird, dehumanized future - TechCrunch
The future is stupid.
Steve Harvey Death Rumor Sparked by Bogus AI Story - Yahoo News
The new SEO: How to Rank on ChatGPT Search and AI Search Engines - Geeky Gadgets
How to Use an AI Voice Changer, and What It Offers Content Creators.- CNET
A free GitHub Copilot tier for VS Code - Visual Studio
US Homeland Security chief attacks EU effort to police artificial intelligence - FT
Hey, why not just let techbros take over the government and shut it down?
Quantum AI startup SandboxAQ valued at $5.3 billion after $300 million fundraising - Yahoo Finance
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