AI Reading for Wednesday August 14

Meta kills CrowdTangle during an election season, because it showed the top 10 most viewed posts on FB were garbage. Mr. Transparency and Open Source AI, folks. - Engadget

Prince William gets starring role in crypto AI deepfake videos, Great job Zuck! Let's push AI with no guardrails, and then push engagement over decency and privacy, and then be utterly feckless at catching blatant scams. - The Independent

Everyone wants to run the Netscape playbook on OpenAI, doesn’t make you some kind of hero doing a public service.

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Google's Voice Chat maybe steals a march on OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Assistant - The Verge

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Google’s Gemini Live AI Sounds So Human, I Almost Forgot It Was a Bot - WSJ

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Google making Gemini the default assistant but Google Assistant fans aren't happy about it.

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Feds said to weigh trying to break up Google. - NY Times

Gee I wonder why Musk hates these guys so much.

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AI: 40% of the time, it works every time - The Register

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Hands on with Pixel 9 AI camera features. - WIRED

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Missed the group photo? just AI yourself in - DIY Photography

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Grok-2 is out - x.ai/blog/grok-2

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Doing pretty good in LMSYS - X (formerly Twitter)

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Musk out there insulting my HS math teacher. I even worked for the IT company he set up in NYC one summer doing dBase stuff. - X (formerly Twitter)

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I'm sure this will go great - Forbes

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Hedge Funds Battle to Turn ChatGPT from Intern to Analyst - Bloomberg

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McKinsey Says AI is 40% Of Its Work - Bloomberg

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Big Tech ramps up spending on AI ads. - Washington Post

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‘AI Scientist’ Conducts Autonomous Research. - Decrypt

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MIT releases a comprehensive database of AI risks. Maybe we can use it to train an AI to help address them? - VentureBeat

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FDA approves app to treat depression with cognitive behavioral therapy. - Mashable

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New enterprise AI software developer robot takes top benchmark honors. - VentureBeat

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Robots gotta look the part, co-exist with humans, and get the time to mature. - IEEE Spectrum

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Get your Shake Shack by autonomous robot. - Electrek

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Reporter uses AI to make up fake quotes and stories. - Newsday

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Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda, who is definitely a real person and not a chatbot, says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots. - The Verge

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People still going nuts over CA AI bill. - NY Times

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Only a dope would claim these crowds are AI, but here we are. - Ars Technica

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Chinese robotaxi gets approval to launch passenger service in California. (even before Tesla LOL) - TechCrunch

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Waymo releases software update to address 'honkfest' - The Verge

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UK high school is piloting ChatGPT and AI tools to personalize learning for some students - Business Insider

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AI tool enables real-time face swapping on webcams, raising fraud concerns - Ars Technica

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Commandar Adama was right. - Battlestar Wiki

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