AI Reading for Thursday May 16

Credit where credit is due, big ship to turn around, good job not getting fired, not yet firing on all cylinders in the marketplace but there are interesting things happening and real heat on OpenAI. - Business Insider

"Google will do the Googling for you." - The Verge

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Google actually showed smart glasses in 2nd part of Astra demo, I missed that. Sergey Brin says AI is perfect for glasses, Google Glass was too early, and he doesn't even know what the glasses prototype was. Great hair Sergey. - CNET

Google is rolling out a 'web' filter that will just give blue links and no panels. I tried, “best white male afro” but I didn't see the feature yet. - The Verge

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A profile of Neuralink's first patient. Tough story, I feel for him and I hope it helps him. He talks about wanting to cash in on celebrity. Turning him into a Musk influencer / promoter is problematic. There are other labs doing similar work and changing people’s lives but this is getting all the air.

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Open source gen AI sounds cool for enterprises, but it's a bit of a trap, there's a lot to take on and you have to redo everything every few months as the tech advances. - CIO

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UK startup raises $50m for conversational call center AI assistants. - UKTN

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Stability AI explores sale. - The Information

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US and China talk AI policy amid deep and deepening tech tensions. "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." - AP News

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Microsoft offers relocation to its Chinese AI staff, suggesting it’s hard for them to do their work under current restrictions. - CNBC

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AI for math. It is good at exhaustively exploring a search space and finding interesting things. - Nature

I'm not sure if AI will invent whole new abstractions yet. Or understand a Mochizuki manuscript. Also there's a good chance we will get a lot of new meds and cancer vaccines out of DeepFold, which might be really be the ideal testing ground for AI science.

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Doomers have made it onto Jeopardy! - Twitter

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A possible Apple product roadmap leaked. - NewsBytes

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Julia Angwin | Will A.I. Ever Live Up to Its Hype? - NY Times

Might be a dumb intern but who among us couldn’t use a few interns though? I think it can be magic and I can’t believe some people don’t want to use it. But the hype is a little ridiculous sometimes.

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The Daily Show: Is ChatGPT's assistant just a little more sultry than necessary? - YouTube (5 minutes in)

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