AI Reading for Wednesday October 9
Demis Hassabis gets Nobel in chemistry with others. - NY Times
OpenAI to open offices in Singapore, Paris, Brussels for global expansion - TechCrunch
Sex Machina: inside the wild west world of human-AI relationships, where the lonely and vulnerable are most at risk - The Conversation
LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem - The Register
The labor battle over robots in US port facilities - WSJ
Google adds Gemini models to Looker dataviz platform for conversational data analysis. - SiliconANGLE
Lightdash, which bills itself as an open-source Looker, adds an AI data analyst - SiliconANGLE
Perplexity added a 'focus' feature, letting you target searches to social, or video, or academic sources, or computational problem-solving. - Geeky Gadgets
AI is effective in social media when it acts like real users interacting, not just generating engaging fake content. - Fast Company
Recalling 2016 Twitter accounts like ‘Heart of Texas’ and ‘Ten_GOP’ that turned out to be Russia-based…or a lot of the inexplicably obtuse left trolls.
Law schools don't know what to do about applicants and students using gen AI. - Above The Law
Firms vie to win £1m for dementia technology - the Guardian
Roly teaches piano with the help of AI hand tracking. - TechCrunch
Human data labeling is the labor-intensive underbelly of the AI ecosystem. - The Conversation
Tesla's robotaxi event coming Thursday. - Fast Company
Meta gives advertisers an AI video editor, ability to create a video from a static image. - The Verge
Voters don't trust candidates with generative AI. - Engadget
Congressional underdog trained an AI on opponent's statements, challenged it to a debate. - The Register
Automating grunt work leads to the loss of training grounds and hands-on experience. - Bloomberg
When the AI 'use it in a sentence' gets a little bloodthirsty - Reddit
Training a robot to climb ladders. - YouTube
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