AI Reading for Wednesday November 27
Buffett once said if an investor had been at Kitty Hawk, he should have shot down the Wright Brothers because so much money was lost in airlines.
Interesting take on Suno, directionally true that AI is better than 80% of early career programmers and data scientists, too - X (formerly Twitter)
Maybe AI is better than 80% of therapists.
The 80% rule: Maybe in general AI is as good as 80% of professionals, or maybe only 20% of professionals really know what they are doing, or they need AI assistance to be really competent.
Emergency vehicle flashers can disrupt self-driving vehicles with “digital epileptic seizures”. - WIRED
Singapore embraces self-driving buses. - Rest of World
OpenAI lets employees to sell $1.5b in shares to Softbank via a tender offer - CNBC
Chinese Driverless-Tech Firm Pony AI Prices US IPO ($4.5b valuation) - Bloomberg
A16z in Talks to Lead $200 Million Round in Black Forest Labs, Startup Behind Flux Text-to-Image AI on Grok. - Bloomberg
AI-driven protein discovery platform Cradle raises $73M - SiliconANGLE
TED talk: How AI is accelerating research and drug discovery.
Eric Schmidt says irresistible AI virtual vixens, femme fatales, Circes and sirens will seduce men to their real life destruction. - Business Insider
Feminist artists have thoughts on AI images of women, AI girlfriends etc. (some NSFW and otherwise unsettling images) - Art News
Beta-testing artists say they leaked OpenAI’s Sora video model in protest - The Verge
Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI - the Guardian
Bluesky posts make their way into 'Machine Learning Research' datasets - 404 Media
Third party respect for any 'no AI training on skeets/bleats' policy is only limited by legal limitations, scruples of individual firms and devs. - BlueSky
Biden Administration seeks to regulate use of AI in denying care for federal programs. - STAT
Trump eyes "AI czar", i.e. Elon Musk's mouthpiece. - Yahoo News
Would be silly to expect the administration to deviate from Musk’s interests in any way.
Gary Marcus says AI needs regulation. - WSJ
Uber's gig work platform will expand to include data labelers and AI coders. - Yahoo Finance
Feds Say Evolv Is Over-Hyping AI Tech in Gun Detectors - Gizmodo
Do we need a 'right to repair' AI that does bad things that affect us? - WIRED
New Haven police to test AI to help write police reports - NBC Connecticut
Comparing vector search rerankers - Hacker Noon
Robots approach their ChatGPT moment - The New Yorker
Digit robot goes to work in Spanx factory, cost said to be similar to a $30 / hour human worker. - Business Insider
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