AI Reading for Tuesday September 3

Usual evergreen story about upheaval at OpenAI - NYTimes

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How Machines Learned to Discover Drugs - The New Yorker

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Huawei's AI chips are a bust, says the FT - Ars Technica

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Cerebras launches a fast voice assistant on the Web - cerebras.vercel.app

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Nvidia might need a specialized inference chip to compete with Cerebras and Groq. Those chips are lower latency but I don't know how they compare in tokens/watt or watt-hour. - Business Insider

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Musk is doing something with his 100,000 H100s, or maybe just keeping up with the Zuckerbergs. Cage fight would have been cheaper. - Business Insider

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Musk shares video of Tesla's GPU racks in Austin. BTW hatever happened to that Buffalo factory and data center he was going to build? - X (formerly Twitter)

You can hate on AI all you want, but it's great human drama, that 3 of the richest men on earth and 2 scrappy startups are like, I will spend all the money there is, to get to AGI before those other jerks.

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Shorts start to circle around AI plays like SuperMicro. - Bloomberg

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ARM PCs are fast and cheap and better for AI but they can't play Fortnite. - WSJ

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‘ChatGPT Is Like Talking Taylor Swift With Grandpa’ - Mashable India

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I put 7 leading AI image generators to the test with the same prompt — here’s the winner - Tom's Guide

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ALL use of generative AI is now permanently banned on Stack Overflow. Hmmh, good luck with that. Joel Spolsky is laughing all the way to the bank that he sold out to private equity right before AI hit. - Meta Stack Overflow

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The first presidential election of the generative AI era is only weeks away — and we’re not ready - Yahoo Finance

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Is AI's impact on elections overblown? - MIT Technology Review

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SaaS customer extraction is going to be an ongoing theme as companies need to pay for the big AI spend, and need to provide investors the returns they demand from big rounds at high valuations. - The Verge

I'm old enough to remember when SaaS and cloud was supposed to save you so much money from not running your own infrastructure, and they were going to reduce prices as they got more customers and scale. Instead AWS adds services and features to lock you in, and raises prices once you are locked in.

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US Open tennis was briefly stopped when the AI linesmen stopped working due to a fire alarm. - New York Post

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Researchers use optogenetics to control simple worm c. elegans with reinforcement learning, with what sounds like a Manchurian Candidate light-flashing trick enabled with gene-editing. - Nature

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How to use Gemini AI to summarize an entire book with AI - Geeky Gadgets

Will cost you some tokens.

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ChatGPT is great at summarizing books. But will AI ever write a true work of literature? - Big Think

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Ted Chiang (Arrival) on Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art - The New Yorker

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Facebook partner admits smartphone microphones listen to people talk to serve better ads. - TweakTown

wait, what? little pitchers have big ears?

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We are in the midst of an energy revolution and cheap, abundant, clean energy is on the horizon. - NY Times

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Robocars probably lead to more cars on the road. (maybe higher utilization and fewer cars overall) - The Verge

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Longshoremen threaten strike over automating ports with autonomous trucks and ship-unloading robot cranes. - NY Times

Definitely don’t want automated ports disrupting $400K longshoreman's union jobs LOL. - YouTube

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AI might speed game dev and bring down $250m tentpole budgets (by reducing employment in an already brutal industry). - TechCrunch

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Andrew Ng says AGI is a long way off. - YouTube

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A podcast with Daron Acemoğlu, is AI's contribution to economic growth over-hyped?

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'Kitt' AI coming to Android Auto. - Android Authority

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Waymo gone wild in Tempe - CNN

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Mira Murati’s mom asking AI the important questions - X (formerly Twitter)

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