Sunday AI Reading for 2024-03-10

Is AI soft mind control? Or not that soft? - The Atlantic

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Maybe AI can be conscious but maybe what it will learn to do unconsciously is the most powerful and scary part. - The Atlantic

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AI learns cell biology on its own, possibly discovers new cells, treatments. - New York Times

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Academia is being priced out of leading-edge AI research - Washington Post

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ChatGPT uses enough power to run 17,000 homes. Like, a few blocks of the Las Vegas Strip? - Business Insider

The Sphere peaks out at 21,000 homes, although just for short bursts. A casino property consumes the equivalent of 3000 to 5000 homes.

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Midjourney can now describe a photo, so you can do the strange loop of repeatedly having it describe a photo and then generate from the description. - Tom’s Hardware

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Dall-E adds control options for aspect ratio and predefined styles - THE DECODER

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Autonomous pilots are coming, Microsoft Copilot ishere literally. How are we feeling about our 737 Max being piloted remotely or by a robot with no skin in the game? - Fox News

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How to fine-tune a quantized 70b-parameter model on a PC with 2 24GB Nvidia RTX 4090s. Cool for hobbyists but most firms who would want to do this might as well spend a few bucks and do it via a cloud provider with a proper pipeline. - Answer.AI

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Gemini now lets you edit your previous prompts. Handy in a long thread working on a task, if you screw up a prompt, don't want it to mess up the context if you continue the thread, or start the thread over. Also if you keep long threads for certain tasks you can iteratively improve them. - 9to5Google

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Microsoft has started blocking some terms to make images after whistleblower complained. - CNBC

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Altman: it will be worth the wait, whatever ‘it’ is - X

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