AI Reading for Wednesday April 9

Will A.I. Save the News? - The New Yorker

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An A.I.-Generated Article on How to Tell If the Article You’re Reading Is A.I.-Generated - The New Yorker

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Quartz Fires All Writers After Move to AI Slop - Futurism

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Quartz: 7 jobs that will be hugely affected by AI in the next 20 years, according to experts - Quartz

Muckrakers / AI slop shovelers lead the parade

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California lawmakers introduced Senate Bill 243 to address safety concerns with AI chatbots, proposing requirements such as reminding users that chatbots are not human, implementing protocols for suicidal ideation, and reporting instances of such interactions. - LA Times

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Deepfakes bill garners broad support but First Amendment advocates warn it could be susceptible to abuse by bad actors - Washington Post

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"You just can't go around killing people" Explaining Agent Behavior to a Human Terminator - arXiv.org

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Author of Meta book to testify that Zuck curried favor with China by aiding them in AI, against US national security interests. - Business Insider

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Everyone is catching up to OpenAI models, but ChatGPT has a branding and product edge - AdWeek

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Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps - The Verge

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EU unveils AI plan for independence from US and China - WSJ

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China gains dexterous upper hand in humanoid robot tussle with US. It's a supply chain thing. - FT

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Elon Musk's xAI is hiring workers to rein in Grok as the chatbot spits out NSFW content and racial slurs - Business Insider

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AI commissars monitor Federal workers' communications for political correctness - Reuters

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Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall - WIRED

maybe it won't push miracle weight loss supplements on TV like a quack snake oil salesman with a medical degree tho

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Google announces inference chip. Availability expected later this year, no way to compare with Nvidia Blackwell/Rubin on performance and cost but guessing on par with Blackwell? Says 4,614 Tflops (presumably FP8 for inference?) per chip. Blackwell posts around 10,000 FP4 Tflops. - TechCrunch

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The Wizard of Oz is coming to the Las Vegas Sphere in 16K via Google DeepMind AI - TechRadar

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Andreessen Horowitz seeks to raise $20 billion megafund for growth-stage investments in large pre-IPO startups - Reuters

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A deep dive into MCP Protocol: a new AI dev tools building block - The Pragmatic Engineer

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UK's Ministry of Justice has been developing an algorithm designed to identify people who could become killers. - the Guardian

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Robot miners dig up coal to feed ravenous appetite for power to train more robots - OilPrice.com

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Will economic Armageddon speed AI adoption? yeah, probably - Fortune

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What If AI Is Why We’ve Never Heard from Aliens? But there are so many ways humanity is hurtling toward self-destruction that AI seems at the bottom of the list - Hacker Noon

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Sparq helps drivers be their own AI-powered mechanics - Fast Company

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Stealth startup Cogito claims big advance in hybrid reasoning/non-reasoning model - TechCrunch

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Amazon unveils Nova Sonic, a new AI voice model for Alexa-type apps - TechCrunch

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John Carmack on AI dev, via Simon Willison : - Simon Willison’s Weblog

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Google's non-competes force some to take a year of gardening leave before better jobs at competitors. - TechCrunch

Some, like Nando de Freitas's brother Daniel, go to even greater lengths to get ahead, leave Google and start companies which Google buys for billions

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Making an action figure of yourself - The US Sun

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He's not bluffing - YouTube

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Reading the news these days

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