AI Reading for Wednesday September 25
Altman pitched White House a plan to build multiple 5GW data centers in meeting with Big Tech leaders. Microsoft's huge Three Mile Island deal is < 1GW. - Data Center Dynamics
OpenAI is pushing out Advanced Voice Mode to all paying customers, but I haven't got it yet. - VentureBeat
Suleyman reshuffles Microsoft AI effort, some key Phi researchers leave. - The Information
AI reshapes healthcare with drug discovery, diagnostics, wearable devices, personalized medicine, operational efficiencies. - Fast Company
Examining room AI note-taking saves time for doctors, lets them listen instead of type. - Business Insider
Doctors can now use AI in MyChart to send messages to patients. - NY Times
Intel launches Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 AI chips as stock languishes, takeover talk circulates. - VentureBeat
Cameron joins board of Stability AI. Wasn't Terminator a cautionary tale about superintelligent AI? - The Hollywood Reporter
You were supposed to save us from AI, not join them! Silicon Valley, where every dystopian nightmare movie or novel can be recycled into a business plan.
Google updates models, cuts prices, undercutting OpenAI in a price war. - Google
With 40% adoption after 2 years, gen AI surpasses PC and Internet adoption curves. - VentureBeat
AI investment advisor gets greenlight in Israel - The Register
Fine-tuning with Zero Coding Skills - Geeky Gadgets
Viral Justin Bieber style song appears to be AI generated. - CBS
LLMs for gradient-free prompt optimization - arXiv.org
run a couple of prompts for a task
ask an AI to evaluate the results according to a rubric
rank the prompts
ask an AI to generate new prompts similar to the top 10 prompts
add the new prompts to your eval set, go to 2) , and iterate
Beware Goodhart’s Law though, make sure it’s optimizing against a good test rubric metric, not overfitting a bad one.
ING uses an AI bot to make markets in FX - Bloomberg
John Mulaney roasted AI at a Salesforce event. - Futurism
AI-generated Mark Robinson says, vote for a regular guy who was convicted just like you. - MarkRottensonForNC
Doesn't even use where he called himself a Black Nazi or said MLK was a Communist, or said maybe slavery should be legal and he would own a few.
An O'Reilly course for professionals on using AI effectively - O’Reilly
VS Code adds Copilot functionality as people seem to like the Cursor AI-native VS Code fork. - Geeky Gadgets
Goodhart's law, or, when people find the flaw in the algorithm and game it.
Citibike gives points when you balance out bike stations by taking a bike from a full station or returning a bike to an empty station. You can redeem 'Bike Angel' points against your subscription or on a debit card.
It's been a success, point payouts have been increased, and favor hustlers who move a lot of bikes vs. a casual user who just takes note of the best options. But then, the hustlers realized teams working together could create empty or full docks to maximize payouts, which completely reversed the incentive structure. See also Cobra effect.