AI Reading for Tuesday June 2

Druce Vertes

Jul 02, 2024

Apple still in talks with Google and also Anthropic for AI integration, probably not Meta - 9to5Mac

Apple Intelligence won’t stay free forever. - Bloomberg

French set to bring antitrust action against Nvidia. Jensen Huang, wyd? - Reuters

The gold is not in the chips, but the data. - Reuters

6 big questions about AI. - VentureBeat

Goldman Sachs on Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit? - Goldman Sachs

AI economic indicator combines high-frequency and low-frequency data in an opaque and useless way. - CNBC

Lower-body AI exoskeleton trained on videos assists people walking, running, climbing stairs, reduces energy needed by 13% to 24%. - WUNC

Steve Ballmer is now richer than Bill Gates, as Ballmer kept his Microsoft stock while Gates heeded Buffett's advice to diversify. - Bloomberg

Also, Gates gave away a ton of money to charity and gave up assets in the divorce. Fun fact, Ballmer margined his stock and levered up when Microsoft Word was delayed in the 80s and the stock took a big hit, increased his net worth maybe 30%.

Enterprises are unprepared for a wave of deepfake identity fraud. - VentureBeat

Motorola / Lenovo positions phone as a fashion item with AI-generated ad. - YouTube

Ukraine, the Silicon Valley of killer robots. - NY Times

YouTube implements process to take down AI deepfakes. - The Register

Figure posts video of its robot, says it's up and running at US BMW plant. - X (formerly Twitter)

Anthropic wants to fund evals for LLM quality and safety, and tooling around evals. - Anthropic

FAA asking for comments on using AI to improve flight safety. - AVweb

Nanobots hunt cancer cells. - Interesting Engineering

Adi Samir, who is the S in RSA, has a paper about how to extract weights from a neural network. Probably not practical to extract all the weights in GPT-4o though. - Schneier

MIT robots gently pack groceries, including delicate soft fruits (video at bottom) - Robot Report

SK Hynix has sold out its dense VRAM through late 2025, looking to invest $75b to increase capacity. (I'm sure the hundreds of billions of dollars invested will never lead to a glut though. 🙄😂) - The Register

Using AI to measure carbon emissions. Physician, heal thyself! - ESGtoday

The latest open-source Google Gemma 27b-parameter model beats early GPT-4 releases in LMSYS, is tied for 12th overall. You can probably run a quantized version on a beefy recent MacBook Pro or a 24GB Nvidia GPU. Just grab LM Studio and search this URL, or run the GGUF with Ollama or Python or tools of your choice. - HuggingFace

Rehabilitate or reprogram criminals by implanting false memories. Sorry wut? - Wired

Maybe that’s the future of Neuralink, zombifying convicts.

AI updates 'made with AI' labels to 'AI info' after creators complained about false positives. Why doesn't Facebook just ban 'Shrimp Jesus' and similar monstrosities? Engagement. - Business Insider

AI Jesus images considered inaccurate. You mean he wasn't blond-haired, blue-eyed and ripped? As if every culture didn't depict Jesus with the features of the most appealing local hunks. - CNN

Wimbledon's AI news ticker erroneously refers to Raducanu as UK #1 when she is #3. Hopefully they spelled her name right. - the Guardian

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