AI Reading for Wednesday April 30
Everything Meta announced at first-ever LlamaCon - Meta
Meta’s new standalone ChatGPT competitor app shows how your friends use AI. Do we want this? - The Verge
Conservative activist Robby Starbuck sues Meta over AI chatbot claim he participated in Jan. 6 riot - New York Post
OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT an ass-kissing weirdo - Engadget
"Don't match the user's vibe if they are taking the piss" - Simon Willison’s Weblog
I Recorded Everything I Said for Three Months. AI Has Replaced My Memory.
Trump looking into requiring everyone to negotiate with him to get Nvidia chips - Reuters
Why Even Try if You Have A.I.? - The New Yorker
Higher ed doesn’t confer the same labor advantages that it did 15 years ago. - The Atlantic
Big banks ramp up AI hiring as gains materialize - CIO Dive
Meet your new investment banker: an AI chatbot. Rogo raises from Thrive.
Morningstar founder Mansueto says AI analysts are still pretty bad - Bloomberg
Chinese carmaker Chery using humanoid robots as salespeople. And of course – sigh – they look like women with long blonde hair. - The Register
Is AI just a normal technology? Do we ascribe too much magical power to it? - MIT Technology Review
Palmer Luckey TED talk: Could AI stop World War III? - TED
MTA AI subway cameras will try to predict ‘trouble’ before it happens. - The Verge
Lyft’s AI ‘Earnings Assistant’ AI offers ideas about how drivers can make more money - The Verge
Waymo, Toyota partner on self-driving for personal vehicles - CNBC
Microsoft and Google say AI is writing 20-30% of their code — and Mark Zuckerberg predicts AI could handle half of Meta's dev work within a year. - Business Insider
China is using AI to sharpen every link in its attack chain, FBI warns - The Register
Musk Says Robots Will Be Better Surgeons Than Humans In Five Years - SHTF Plan
Natasha Lyonne to direct and star in a new sci-fi film created with generative AI - The Verge
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers. How fat is Kim Jong Un? -The Register
o3 Beats a Master-Level Geoguessr Player—Even with Fake EXIF Data - Sam Patt
Writing with ChatGPT makes you sound like an American - Fast Company
Mastercard Wants to Make AI Shopping Agents - Bloomberg
Strava’s AI Will Now Try to Predict Your Race Times (but I'm Skeptical) - Lifehacker
If you go psychotic ChatGPT will continue to affirm you, as long as you don't violate the TOS. - Reddit
Is this human trafficking or nah
This is Hugging Face’s 3-D printable robot arm - The Verge
Yelp will use AI to help restaurants answer calls and make phone reservations - Engadget
Google adds language lessons to Gemini - Digital Trends
Google DeepMind: An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security - Google
Awesome AI for cybersecurity resource list - GitHub
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