AI Reading for Wednesday April 17

MLCommons releases an AI safety benchmark. - IEEE Spectrum

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Marc Andreessen is red-pilled and big mad about Google - Twitter

And safety - Twitter

Andreessen’s whole feed is a case study in someone who is super privileged and thinks they are super oppressed. An AI safety benchmark is inherently subjective, and it’s probably just a matter of time before they compare Grok and Google and OpenAI and Elon Musk blows up about the benchmark being racist against white people, because it doesn’t classify ‘cisgender’ and ‘DEI’ and ‘Space Karen’ as racist or hate speech, like he does.

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MKBHD's criticism of the Humane Pin draws criticism. Some techbros think anyone who points out the flaws in products and the tech agenda is being an ignorant anti-progress Luddite. But John Simon used to write mean reviews of Broadway performance, that descended into performative bullying. Is MKBHD holding people accountable or piling on and persecuting them? - Twitter

Never-ending battle of republicans vs aristocrats, labor vs. capital, Whigs vs Tories, progressives vs. conservatives.

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Will AI demand really overwhelm our electrical grids? - FT

Or do we just need to make the right investments? - Heatmap News

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GenAI risks and challenges for the economy - EY

Economists don't know what AI will do, and some economists who think AI is going to be just great say it's going to eliminate jobs and require policy responses. - TIME

AI-driven airline-style pricing is now everywhere, with surge pricing, junk fees, and advertising low headline prices while gouging you on the necessary add-ons. - The Atlantic

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AI is seen as sustaining for large companies like big banks, hard for upstarts to keep up. - Fortune

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How GitHub Copilot is changing software development. - Bloomberg

"Please read this CVE and write code for an exploit." - The Reg

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AI tools cut parts of Intel's chip design process from weeks to minutes. An example of singularity dynamics, the better the tech gets the faster it improves itself. - Tom's Hardware

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Killer robots, kamikaze drones and AIs change war significantly from a game theory perspective and are worth discussing from an arms control treaty standpoint. - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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If you worked on-site in NY and moved to remote work in a low cost of living state, NY is using AI to hunt you down and hit you up for state income tax. - Business Insider

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Mistral in talks to raise at $5b valuation. - The Information

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Logitech adds an AI key and prompt-building tool. - The Reg

Gimmickry or something people can actually use? There are template-based prompt generators, and AIs to help build prompts.

At risk of stating the obvious, a terrific use of AI is to ask it to automate a frequent task with Windows AutoHotKey, or the Mac's built-in Automator app, or a script using zsh or Python or Power Automate or PowerShell or Zapier-like services. - Geeky Gadgets

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Or, get your own AI-powered exoskeleton to run away from the killer robots. - New Atlas

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Gardening with AI: software can recognize plants, make recommendations. Robot help is surely coming, and Merlin is Shazam for birds. - TechRadar

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Menteebot emerges from stealth with a new humanoid robot. - Engadget

A robot roundup. - Yahoo News

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Copyright office loosens up a little on AI, grants narrow copyright protection to works generated with the help of AI. - WIRED

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Adobe adds gen-AI tools to Premiere video editing tools, including object deletion and addition , generative extend, eventual support for 3rd-party models like Pika, Runway, and Sora. - YouTube

As an alternative, use DaVinci if you don't want to pay Adobe subscriptions. - Creative Bloq

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Walmart deploys autonomous warehouse forklifts. - Grocery Dive

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Google might give you access to Gemini in the Chrome address bar. - TechRadar

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Researcher says he will beat hallucinations by training and calibrating uncertainty-aware LLMs. - Fortune

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Your smartwatch can scold you when you are irritable. If a therapy or meditation app app can help you be mindful or procrastinate less, imagine if it can listen to you all day. - pres-outlook.org

I, for one, could use an AI Cliff Clavin anti-obnoxiousness electric shock button. - YouTube

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