AI Reading for Tuesday December 10

Druce Vertes

Dec 10, 2024

Sora is here - OpenAI

Sora won't make videos of children and you can't upload images of real peole - TechCrunch

Marques Brownlee reviews Sora - YouTube

An AI companion suggested he kill his parents, his mom is suing. - Washington Post

When your kids’ AI friends get discontinued. - AppleInsider

Spying on Student Devices, Schools Aim to Intercept Self-Harm Before It Happens. - NY Times

Early adopters ditch Google search for AI. - Bloomberg

But 0) Google is pretty good at AI and 1) if you are typing into a text box, you are doing something Google is good at and 2) LLMs are not search engines, they need search to work. The real challenge to Google is when new UI bypasses the text search box.

Contest winners improve the state of the art at human-like reasoning, raise the bar for an AGI benchmark. - TechCrunch

Wolfram Notebook Assistant turns plain language problems into math equations and code Wolfram can solve.

Representation and world models are an AGI hurdle, if you had an intermediate language that was intelligible to the LLM to map real-world problems to, and also map to e.g. Wolfram code, it could bridge the impedance gap btw fast right brain System 1 thinking and slow left brain System 2 reasoning. - GitHub

The new land man finds sites for data centers near cheap power. - FT

Microsoft Unveils Zero-Water Data Centers to Reduce AI Climate Impact. Just circulates water in a closed loop. - Bloomberg

Gotta dissipate the heat somehow, if you have more AC you trade renewable water evaporation for nonrenewable fossil fuel consumption and atmospheric CO2.