AI Reading for Tuesday 2024-03-12

State Department report says U.S. must move “quickly and decisively” to avert substantial national security risks stemming from AI which could, in the worst case, cause an “extinction-level threat to the human species” - TIME

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Among the A.I. Doomsayers - The New Yorker

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Are We Watching The Internet Die? "We're watching the internet die as it gets overwhelmed with content built to be popular with algorithms, much of it generated by AI, crowding out stuff created by humans. Ironically, this is also an existential threat to generative AI." - Ed Zitron

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Covariant startup builds 'ChatGPT for robots' that learns tasks like humans. - New York Times

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Stability AI: Intel's Gaudi 2 offers twice the performance of Nvidia's H100 on image-generating workload - Stability AI

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Midjourney has a new 'consistent character' feature - Tom's Guide

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Perplexity CEO: "I tried to hire a very senior researcher from Meta, and you know what they said? 'Come back to me when you have 10,000 H100 GPUs'". - Business Insider

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As gen AI takes center stage at Microsoft, some former superstars get eclipsed. "The former Azure AI is basically just tech support for OpenAI." - Business Insider

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Cohere launches a new LLM model, claims to be superior for RAG - VentureBeat

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Fine-tune Code Whisperer to work with your coding standards, styles, internal frameworks - InfoWorld

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5 of 45 Pulitzer journalism nominees used AI - Nieman Lab

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Actors union might strike against video game companies over AI, game producers might calculate that in another six months, Sora, Whisper and 8 offshore non-union motion capture artists will be all they need. - Eurogamer.net

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Meta smart Ray-Bans will now describe your surroundings, recognize landmarks - Engadget

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Google wrote a paper on how an attack can reveal details of an LLM architecture, like the unreleased size of internal GPT-4 embeddings. - arXiv.org

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Woman 'chats' with dead mother using AI - with 'spooky' results. “Why don't you ever call me anymore? Just leave me on an ice floe and let me float away already.” - Sky News

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TFW AI steals your video and turns it into an ad where you talk about erectile dysfunction pills - The Daily Dot

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AI weather models outperforming SOTA 'deterministic' models by some metrics - Medium

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Bland.ai recreates Samantha from 'Her'. Although the 'Sky' Scarlett Johansson voice in the ChatGPT app seems more on point.

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Would you prefer to be called a 'neo-feudal peasant' or 'non-augmented drone trash monkey?'

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