AI Reading for Tuesday April 2

Apr 02, 2024

ChatGPT and Perplexity AI Tweak Free Plans In Battle for Users - Decrypt - Decrypt

ChatGPT will be open to all, and no longer require an account but with more content restrictions. (and ads, maybe?) - TechCrunch

Perplexity has a plan to sell ads - AdWeek

WSJ profiles Demis Hassabis - WSJ

If you want to train bigger LLMs, you need more data but we're getting to the point where they have used all the data, there literally is no more data. - WSJ

Will AI Boost Productivity? Or will it be like PCs when they took off, and economists said, you see tech everywhere except in the productivity statistics? - NYT

How MIT's David Autor Decided A.I. Might Benefit the Middle Class - NYT

NBER working paper - NBER

Googles SGE gives much worse answers than expected, much more often than expected - Washington Post

Hailo, another AI chip startup, raises $120m - Bloomberg

Larry Ellison: use AI to automate cybersecurity, and run everything in my cloud. - WSJ

Grad students go on strike at BU, dean recommends using AI substitutes. - The Daily Beast

The risks of handing decisions to computers with little transparency. When AIs start interacting with each other and training with those interactions, you get model decay. A significant reason for 2008 financial crisis was a shift from local bank loan officers underwriting loans, to national banks using models that people learned how to game. - Business Insider