AI Reading for Thursday October 10

As Musk does his robotaxi event, surely he won't overhype anything, or ask people to pay him today for a hamburger tomorrow. - NPR

What to expect at Tesla’s ‘We, Robot’ event - The Verge

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With an existing 2-sided 'market' and installed base, Uber could fold in robotaxis and profit while Waymo, Tesla, Cruise and others invest a lot of a capital and take a lot of risk - Bernstein. - Business Insider

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OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation. - FT

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The Information's analysis suggests OpenAI's finances are not as crazy as some claim. - Business Insider

Well, they have product-market fit in terms of people wanting the product, they gotta find some kind of real moat or they end up a commodity stuck between selling Nvidia compute and doing it through Microsoft data centers and end-user products (Nvidia I think also has an unclear long-term moat, it’s a cyclical, hit-driven business, for now they have a better software stack and do a few percent more TFLOPs but it seems a bit thin for the kind of margins they are charging).

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An AI tongue to do instant analysis of liquids. - TechXplore

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An AI robotic finger to do examinations and detect lumps - Yahoo News

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Another Chinese AI generator - Ars Technica

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AI slop taking over Google, Facebook - Creative Bloq

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People Are Stuffing Wikipedia with AI-Generated Garbage - ExtremeTech

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AI-generated misinformation is everywhere—identifying it may be harder than you think - Phys.org

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Amazon debuts AI shopping guides - TechCrunch

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Amazon to put AI in vans to help drivers sort packages. - Amazon

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Zoom launches some AI agents, says future is AI for work - Fortune

Bret Taylor's AI startup raises at $4b valuation - Yahoo Finance

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AI trained to explore DNA 'dark matter' identifies over 160,000 new viruses - The University of Sydney

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SearchGPT to be integrated into ChatGPT by yearend. - Press Gazette

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Ring AI video search lets you ask for stuff it saw in video, like 'UPS truck' - ZDNET

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A Waymo crashed into a SF Muni bus outside a YC party - X (formerly Twitter)

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$60M to build a 'GPT for biology' - TechCrunch

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Mediatek's debuts new mobile SoC which I was optimized with Google's AlphaChip, and built for AI inference and even AI training on your smartphone - The Verge

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Wimbledon to replace line judges with AI. Nole Djokovic should be pleased, can't get defaulted for smacking a ball into the AI. - ESPN

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Jürgen Schmidhuber has thoughts twitter.com/SchmidhuberA... There's a job opening at OpenAI for an AI leader, Jürgen - X (formerly Twitter)

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TFW when the Nobel Prize winner says we're all doomed, tidy up your affairs - - X (formerly Twitter)

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Geoffrey Hinton is not a fan of Sam Altman - Business Insider

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