weekend ai reads for 2023-05-05

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: WORKFORCE

• AI and coal mines. What organisations adopting AI can learn from 1950s coal mines Roblog

• IBM plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI over time, pauses hiring certain positions Ars Technica

• This company adopted AI. Here's what happened to its human workers NPR

  • Heavily references the paper I linked to last week from Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li & Lindsey R. Raymond.

• Dropbox layoffs: AI to blame for 16% job cut, CEO says Fast Company

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS

• A Completely Non-Technical Explanation of AI and Deep Learning Parand Standard Deviations

  • Really well done. If you read these too-long posts, you might not learn much about AI but might learn a lot about how to convert a complex concept into an accessible framing.

• Prompt engineering techniques Microsoft

• Why Chatbots Are Not the Future Amelia Wattenberger

  • I preferred the title in the URL.

• Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" SemiAnalysis

• OpenAI Suffers $540M Loss in 2022, Contemplates $100B More to Conquer AI Artisana

🎓 EDUCATION and AI

• Sal Khan: The amazing AI super tutor for students and teachers Ted

• Code.org helping launch TeachAI to guide integration of artificial intelligence in education Geek Wire

• Using large language models as an academic Jason Collins Blog

• How AI can accelerate students’ holistic development and make teaching more fulfilling World Economic Forum

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Video: Geoffrey Hinton talks about the “existential threat” of AI MIT Technology Review (may require registration)

• We Aren't Close To Creating A Rapidly Self-Improving AI Jacob Buckman, Substack

• Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’ The Guardian

  • He says comparing ourselves with AI is the equivalent of comparing ourselves with a car. “It’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. Of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a better runner.”

• ChatGPT And More: Large Scale AI Models Entrench Big Tech Power AI Now Institute

• It’s Not Intelligent If It Always Halts: A Critical Perspective on Current Approaches to AGI Life Is Computation

• Quantifying ChatGPT’s gender bias, Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan, Substack.

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• New AI Music

  • Mostly terrible, and will mostly ruin your favorite songs and bands.

• But then there's this gem which gives me slight hope for the future: The Beatles - God Only Knows (ft. Brian Wilson) [AI] Dae Lims, YouTube

• AudioPen

  • Ramble to AI, and get a fairly well-written summary in return (requires registration)

• Call Annie!

  • Have an impressively low-latency conversation with AI. Boring conversation but amazing technology. Use your local pay phone if you're concerned about protecting your phone number.

• BlueWillow

  • In early noodling with it, this is my vote for the best image generator after Midjourney. But also annoying Discord-only?? I'm busy, people, just give me a URL! 

unrelated, but tweet of week economeager on Twitter (sorry)