AI Reading for Tuesday July 1

Zuckerberg Announces Meta ‘Superintelligence’ Effort In Internal Memo, with 11 More Hires from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic - Bloomberg

Read Mark Zuckerberg's memo explaining what Alexandr Wang will be running at Meta - Business Insider

OpenAI researcher: We don’t have AI self-improves yet, and when we do it will be a game-changer. With more wisdom now compared to the GPT-4 days, it's obvious that it will not be a “fast takeoff”, but rather extremely gradual across many years, probably a decade. The first thing to know is that"/X - X

OpenAI Reportedly Shuts Down for a Week as Zuck Poaches Its Top Talent - Gizmodo

The Future of AI: Sam Altman’s Controversial 'Gentle Singularity' Explained - Geeky Gadgets

Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts humanity will reach the singularity—the merger of human and artificial intelligence—by 2045, achieving a millionfold increase in intelligence through technologies like nanobot brain interfaces. - Popular Mechanics

Apple’s AI Siri might be powered by OpenAI, or Anthropic - The Verge

Elon Musk’s xAI Closes $10 Billion in Debt, Equity, Despite Trump Feud - The Information

AI giants win big in the copyright fight. Here's what happens now. - Business Insider

"Using AI is no longer optional" — Did Microsoft just make Copilot mandatory for its staff as a critical performance metric? - Windows Central

Microsoft open-sourced a sizable chunk of the GitHub Copilot VS Code extension today (MIT licensed) - I did some spelunking to try and find the LLM prompts that make it all work - Simon Willison’s Weblog

People have empathy with AI… when they think it’s human - The Register

AI jobs are skyrocketing, but you don't need to be an expert - The Register

The hidden ‘Mechanical Turk’ labor that makes AI work - Rest of World

Understanding the ‘Slopocene’: how the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings - The Conversation

Google issues company-wide AI coding guidance to software engineers - 9to5Google

Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents - TechCrunch

Morgan Stanley creates an AI bot to turn legacy code into detailed specs, does like 100 man-years of work. - Business Insider

Microsoft claims AI diagnostic tool can outperform doctors - Financial Times

Startup Pi Health Built An AI-First Hospital In India, to test Its software to monitor everything with AI and speed clinical trials - Forbes

From chatbots to collaborators: How AI agents are reshaping enterprise work - VentureBeat

How AI is speeding up the investing game - Business Insider

Amazon now has a million robots on its floors - and they're now close to outnumbering human workers - TechRadar

Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers - The New York Times

China is pulling away in the race to power the future. - The New York Times

Assessing the United States' Additional AI Power Capacity by 2030 - RAND Corporation

Meanwhile in the US they want to eliminate credits for clean energy, tax it, chant drill baby drilll, and suggest Americans should go back to farm and factory labor. Building a bridge back to the nineteenth century.

US Senate rejects plan to stop states regulating AI - Financial Times

Carnegie Mellon University’s computer science faculty plans a summer retreat to rethink its curriculum and integrate rapid advancements in generative A.I., which is significantly impacting computer science education. - The New York Times

I'm gonna be so mad when AI slop starts showing up in my Spotify Discover Weekly. - Music Business Worldwide

People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics - MIT Technology Review

"Truly Psychopathic": Concern Grows Over "Therapist" Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness - Futurism

Your AI has a favorite number, and it's 27 - The Register

Ex-Meta engineers have built an AI tool to plan every detail of your trip - TechCrunch

LLMs are optimizing the adult industry - The Verge

"FADEC computer-based system can automatically reduce engine thrust without pilot input if it wrongly senses the aircraft is on the ground. Such a misclassification mid-air could lead to a catastrophic power loss, possibly what occurred in the AI-171 case." - Financial Express

big if true

Transformers are Graph Neural Networks - The Gradient

"Could AI become its own novel and distinctive form of information processing and social coordination, rather than a secondary technology? In other words: Does it make sense to treat some AI as an emerging form of governance in its own right?" - www.programmablemutter.com

The massage bots are spreading - Equinox

(apols for this one but don't ask for a happy ending, it will rip your head off)

Photos of Woodstock brought to life with AI. (I don't think Santana was strumming, he was wailing) - YouTube

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