AI Reading for Tuesday June 11
Apple keynote in 18 minutes. - YouTube
A roundup of AI features Apple announced. - The Verge
Apple's big reveal showcases where it has a leg up on Microsoft. - Digital Trends
Integrated ecosystem with laptops, phones, tablets, watch, headphones etc.
Installed base of Apple Silicon is more AI-ready than x86
More trust and better DNA on privacy
Musk has thoughts, says he might ban iPhones at his companies. - VentureBeat
He earned a community note on Twitter because he didn’t listen to what Apple actually announced. As phones get super-smart, I could see more secretive firms banning them because of great photo/video/audio recording, not because of a barely-integrated ChatGPT function.
I wonder if Apple will open-source any of this stuff that is supposed to be so auditable. - The Register
Trees don't grow to the sky, things revert to the mean, and Nvidia doesn't have an insurmountable moat. - MarketWatch
Some Nvidia insiders are selling - The Register
If this turns out to be the future, H100s gonna be cheap and Nvidia gonna feel the hurt.
Tim Apple sherlocked some 3rd-party apps today (another similar list) - X (formerly Twitter)
Candidate runs for Parliament as an avatar, channeling the Black Mirror Waldo episode. - Yahoo News
"That wasn't a hallucination, that was just bullshit Joel". - Futurism
Bullshit is speaking for effect rather than communicating sincerely held facts and opinions, which is what LLMs are trained to do, provide answers that sound plausible and good to labelers.
AI slop converges everything to gray goo. - NY Times
OpenAI hires big names as CFO and chief product officer. - Bloomberg
Meta faces legal complaints in EU over training on all your posts and pictures and messages going back forever with no opt-out. - SiliconANGLE
Israeli FM uses gen-AI egg on face to mock Spanish politicians who fared poorly against far right in EU elections. - Times of Israel
AI study finds that elephants call each other by name. - the Guardian
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