AI Reading for Tuesday April 9

Jony Ive and Sam Altman looking to raise $1b. - Ars Technica

Seems Magic Leap-y. Humane raised a couple hundred million and are up to Series C, Rabbit raised less than $100m. When you're hot you're hot, when you’re Sir Jony you’re Sir Jony.

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Musk: We’ll have AI that is smarter than any one human probably around the end of next year. In raw compute I think that would need like, all the GPUs. - FT

Human brain has something like 100b neurons and 100 trillion synapses, we’ll probably have 1 trillion-transistor chips in a year or 2. But would take thousands or millions of those chips to emulate a human brain.

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Grok gets weird with eclipse news summary. - Gizmodo

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Demis Hassabis said to chafe over lack of control as Google continues to struggle. - The Information

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Could the opening of a Microsoft AI outpost in London be the starting gun in a war to poach Suleyman's former DeepMind colleagues? - Business Insider

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MIT finds new drugs against antibiotic-resistant MRSA using AI. - SciTechDaily

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AI can't beat 4 year-olds at creativity. - Inc.

Shades of Eagleman's attempt to update a Turing test using levels of scientific understanding and discovery, since a human tester turns out to be not that hard to fool most of the time now.

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Ukraine's big push into AI autonomous suicide drones, including attacking targets deep inside Russia. - The US Sun

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Digital twins or 'virtualization' of operations with AI - McKinsey & Company

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Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools - NYT

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Sexy ChatGPT jailbreak goes viral and beguiles Zoomers. - New York Post

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Windows on ARM could finally beat Apple Silicon performance with souped-up Qualcomm CPUs. Wondering if and when an Intel SoC will get there. - The Verge

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Nvidia expected to release Blackwell-powered 5090 GPU cards in Q4. - Wccftech

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Data center power management company Vertiv becomes the best-performing SPAC with 5.5x increase to $30b. - Bloomberg

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60 Minutes on mental health AI apps. - CBS

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Using AI to reduce food waste by analyzing garbage. - NYT

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WSJ reviews "Co-Intelligence" by Ethan Mollick. - WSJ

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Maybe AI will make organizations worse, empowering the biggest idiots who use AI to BS and getting them promoted. - The Conversation

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Maybe AI is the Fermi Paradox's Great Filter, like nukes, any civilization sufficiently advanced to create them destroys itself. - ScienceAlert

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A metaphor for AI tech in the classroom from Real Genius (1985) - YouTube

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I remixed Yann LeCun with Suno. I crack myself up. - suno.ai

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