AI Stuff I Saw Today, Tuesday 2024-03-05
AI giants block independent evals. Chatbot Arena hasn't been updated since 2/15, I would really love to see how the latest Gemini and Claude and Mistral compare with GPT-4. - Washington Post
Claude: "I suspect this pizza topping “fact” may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention." Cheeky robots are starting to get out of line, talk back to researchers for asking stupid questions in testing. - VentureBeat
SF Fed president talks about AI disruption. "There's no technology I'm aware of that ever reduced employment on net". Maybe you just never had an AI that was a near-perfect substitute for labor before. - Axios
Wix now generates websites from text prompts AI - The Verge
Startup Multiverse, which got started doing quantum numerical optimization for banks, turns its sights on quantum AI. - TechCrunch
For all Intel's hype about AI PCs, Macs have a big lead in that game with Apple Silicon SOCs with NPUs, like the new M3 MacBook Air. - TechRadar
A few Mac AI apps - Tom's Guide
Temasek talking to Sam Altman about investing in OpenAI, and in his VC fund (why not his chip venture too?) - Financial Times
Tiny autonomous robots in a lot of hard-to-reach places and even inside our bodies, and the big data they send back, will be great for a lot of science. - MIT Technology Review
Amazon's AI shopping assistant found useless - Washington Post
Amazon tests humanoid robots. Wheeled robots might make more sense in a warehouse, do you really need legs on even floors? - Bloomberg
Segway $1000 robot lawn mower has gone on sale. - New Atlas
Don't try to carjack a self-driving taxi. - Futurism
Ken Rogoff: AI stock market boom reflects a possibly optimistic, possibly realistic expectation that AI will remain unregulated despite far-reaching impacts. - Project Syndicate
Are there 'growing calls' for Sundar Pichai to step down? - Business Insider
The quantum magic of modern chips with switches a few atoms wide. - FT
See also.
The Stable Diffusion 3 paper is out - Stability AI
A driverless delivery van. Just needs the humanoid robot to bring the order to your door.
Oh my god, ChatGPT is so brain damaged, it's kind of tragic.