AI Reading for Tuesday March 11

Druce Vertes

Mar 11, 2025

Had to skip Monday but we’re back baby!

The Quest for A.I. ‘Scientific Superintelligence’ and a century of scientific progress in a decade - NY Times

AGI is now a dinner table topic. - MIT Technology Review

The Einstein AI model - Thomas Wolf

I don't know what Einstein AI looks like but this ain't it. Need better representation and ability to learn on the fly. Then you have AI that can adapt in game-theory-optimal ways, and that’s what I would consider AGI.

Can AI stir-fry? - The New Yorker

There's crazy hype and people using AI for things it's no good at, or just silly. But I'm more in the camp of, we are screwed because AI is pretty good and getting better fast, and humans won't be able to adapt quickly enough to avoid disruption, social strife, and war.

What the Dot-Com Bust Can Tell Us About Today’s AI Boom - WSJ

Manus mania - The Register

Google Removes 'Diversity' and 'Equity' From Responsible AI Page - MEDIANAMA

Stanford AI benchmarks measure bias, ability to understand context and differences between people. - MIT Technology Review

(can't have that)

OpenAI in huge CoreWeave deal giving them equity ahead of IPO - TechCrunch

Interesting that Microsoft accounted for most of CoreWeave's revenue but didn't take an equity stake. Seems like they just used it for favorable GPU rental. - Mostly Metrics

Can AI help executives make better decisions faster, with better data from more varied sources? - TechRadar

Apple's friendly home hub postponed due to Siri delays - TechRadar

Rumored to make expressive gestures like the Pixar lamp? - YouTube

CJR finds that most of the time AI doesn't cite news stories correctly and link back - CJR

$14k open source humanoid robot upper torso. Writing with a pen on a notebook that you're holding is an impressively challenging task! Also comes with an open, modular, python software stack for robot control and planning. - openpyro-a1.github.io

AI skills command large wage premiums - CIO Dive

Silicon photonics chip company calls itself Celestial AI. Is this really an AI chip company though? - Bloomberg

AI in vineyards. I dunno, if a tractor operator is overseeing a fleet of self-driving tractors, someone is losing their job. - Financial Post

How much of the inference market can Nvidia keep against inference chips and hyperscaler custom silicon? Not necessarily a dominant share, at the current huge premium. - FT

With reasoning models and increased adoption, inference compute demand is taking off. If Nvidia's chips have a larger advantage in training, it would be to their advantage to segment the market/price-discriminate, and release a cheaper inference chip. But that's not the way they are going.

Meta begins testing its first in-house AI training chip - Reuters