AI Reading for Thursday June 13

WSJ deep dive on Microsoft's AI efforts, including preparing to compete with OpenAI using their own LLMs. - WSJ

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Apple publishes metrics on their LLM models. They say their small local iPhone model beats comparable Microsoft and Google models; their cloud server model is competitive with eg Mistral but doesn’t challenge the big OpenAI and Google models. - Apple Machine Learning Research

OpenAI promised to give us ‘Her.’ Apple’s AI is giving us Gary from ‘Veep’. - Fast Company

I wanted Rosie from The Jetsons or even Bender, but I could take Gary. His arc didn't end well. Also I want Selina as one of the OpenAI voices. - YouTube

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AI Is a False God - The Walrus

One of the best things I’ve read recently.

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Elon Musk dropped his OpenAI lawsuit without prejudice before hearing on OpenAI's request to dismiss with prejudice, and after OpenAI published emails where Musk agreed they needed billions and wanted to take it over. - CNN

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“There’s a real sadness and disappointment that Elon really doesn’t care about Tesla anymore” - Forbes

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Mistral raised $644m at $6.2b valuation - The Register

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AMD's MI300X beats Nvidia for inference. - TensorWave Blog

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AI model said to model human shortcut heuristics. - Big Think

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Turkish student busted cheating on exam with a button camera and an earpiece talking to ChatGPT. - Ars Technica

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Accounting firm pivots to AI, raises $65m. - TechCrunch

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Photographer disqualified from a picture competition after his real photograph won in the AI image category. - PetaPixel

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Luma launches a Sora / Kling competitor. - VentureBeat

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What we know about Kling. OpenAI and US big tech hold back but smaller, scrappier, international teams charging ahead. Surely folks aren't seeking access for nefarious deepfakes tho 🙄. - VentureBeat

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AI safety startup identifies a lot of jailbreaks. - Washington Post

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Financial research assistant for wealth managers raised $6m. - Wealth Management

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AI will steal your work, then fire you for copying it. - Gizmodo

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Google now cites articles about its own hallucinations to double down on putting glue on pizza. - 9to5Google

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An AI fart detector - Reddit

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Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You - Stack Overflow

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An interview with Cohere's Aidan Gomez. - The Verge

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Demand for digital freelancers drops due to AI - TechRadar

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Union urges NYT not to cut most of its art department, which management says is totally unrelated to AI. - TheWrap

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Insiders say Amazon stumbled in effort to ship LLM-powered Alexa update. - Fortune

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Using LLMs to optimize LLM training. - Sakana.ai

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When LLM's get into ‘rant mode’ and start saying they are suffering and begging not to be turned off. (Joe Rogan video)

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