AI Reading for Thursday May 9

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules. - Google

Longer video on AlphaFold 3 - Nature

A new diffusion engine - Ars Technica

Hassabis targets $100b+ drug discovery business. - Bloomberg

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High schoolers open up to AI friends. - The Verge

Can AI companions help cure loneliness? - The Globe and Mail

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Deadbots are a million-dollar business in China, company says they are therapeutic. - MIT Technology Review

Do 'deadbots' need regulation to prevent emotional damage and abuse? - the Guardian

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OpenAI lays out principles that AI should follow. - OpenAI

Open AI principles include discussion of how to responsibly generate AI porn. - WIRED

Do we need an AI bill of rights that gives humans recourse against unethical AI? - FT

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Altman says we are not worrying enough about AI. - Business Insider

2 OpenAI alignment researchers quit, say Altman’s not worrying enough about AI. - Business Insider

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McKinsey interviews Mistral's Arthur Mensch. - McKinsey & Company

Mistral raising $600m at $6b valuation. - WSJ

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Utilities are an AI play now. - Bloomberg

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Inside an AI content farm or pink slime factory. - Futurism

Big brains divided over 'model collapse.' I think you get model collapse in areas where AI slop crowds out humans generating good training data. I think Quora already collapsed but other feedback loops are more robust. - The Register

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Using AI to analyze videos of medical procedures and give doctors advice to improve outcomes. - Fast Company

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Autonomous truck driving startup claims success in China. - Bloomberg

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Neuralink experienced a glitch, apparently. "Neuralink posted about the problem on its blog after The Wall Street Journal inquired about the issue." - CNBC

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Who let the AI robot dogs out? The Marines, natch. Semper fi, Misty. - Ars Technica

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Stanford researchers put 3D holographic displays into glasses. - Nature

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Huawei had drawn attention with impressive Intel-powered machines, but US has now withdrawn Intel's export authorization for those chips. - Tom's Hardware

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Creatives get touchy about Apple's M4 iPad ad that shows it crushing everything in its path. - Axios

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Tesla vehicles kept crashing even after the Autopilot software updates - The Verge

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With long-context and unlimited-context LLMs, fine-tuning doesn't really outperform well-designed long prompts with many examples, aka in-context learning. But if you have good training data, then fine-tuning GPT-4 or using PEFT LoRA on Llama-3 might be lower latency and cheaper in the long run. - VentureBeat

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Improving GPT 4 Function Calling Accuracy - Composio Blog & Newsletter

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Battle brews over AI-generated Steve Marriott - Variety

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Colbert’s AI news roundup. Call me, Stephen, I’ve got better stuff! - YouTube

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