weekend ai reads for 2023-05-12

📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Sam Altman interviewed by Patrick Collison, Sohn 2023 YouTube (52:45)

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS

• Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible? Ted Chiang, The New Yorker

• Pi (or Hey Pi?), another LLM chatbot; it often closes its responses with a question to keep the conversation (read: engagement) going.

• Mr. Ranedeer: Your personalized AI Tutor! A customizable prompt that delivers personalized learning experiences for users with diverse needs and interests.  Github

• Lina Khan: We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How. The New York Times (editorial)

  • From the chairwoman of the FTC.

• Reid Hoffman on Building AI and Other Tech More Responsibly HBR Ideacast (36:56)

🎓 EDUCATION and AI

• Teachers and Students Embrace ChatGPT for Education Walton Family Foundation

• New ChatGPT course at ASU gives students a competitive edge ASU News

  • (maybe not "AI" but certainly "AI-replicable")

• Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries National Bureau of Economic Research

• Integrating ChatGPT Into Your Research Ingar Haaland, Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Google Drive)

• AI Tutoring Has A Lot To Offer. But So Does Human Mentoring Forbes

• Arizona State’s Big Bet on Virtual Reality Labs Inside Higher Ed

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• “I got early 'Alpha' access to GPT-4 with browsing and ran some tests. Here are 8 crazy things I found” Rowan Cheung on Twitter, sorry

• Synthetic data could be better than real data Nature Outlook: Robotics and artificial intelligence, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties

• Are Advances in LLMs a National Security Risk? Less Wrong

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Mr. Ranedeer: Your personalized AI Tutor! A customizable prompt that delivers personalized learning experiences for users with diverse needs and interests.  Github

  • (yes, I posted this twice. it's that cool)

• Chat Jams

  • Create Spotify playlists from a chat prompt.

• "Nike is doing a whole fashion shoot using just AI." BrianRoemmele on Twitter, sorry

• How I Created a Data Visualization With Zero Coding Skills, Thanks to ChatGPT Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society

• WizardLM-13B-Uncensored  This is WizardLM trained with a subset of the dataset - responses that contained alignment / moralizing were removed.  HuggingFace... related ...

• Gippr  GIPPR AI, a modified AI chatbot technology that promotes conservative values and free-speech advocacy that aligns with patriots and independent thinkers' point of view.  Tusk

• A selection of fine AI-cinema experiments Good Internet at Substack