weekend ai reads for 2023-05-19

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: MAMA UPDATES (a week late) 

Microsoft

• Microsoft details plans to enrich AI-powered Bing as availability broadens Marketing Dive

• Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning New York Times (via Rahim)

Apple

• What is Apple’s play in AI? Fast Company

• Apple reveals new accessibility features, like custom text-to-speech voices Tech Crunch

Meta

• Mark Zuckerberg’s not-so-secret plan to join the AI race Vox

Alphabet

• All the AI announcements from Google I/O 2023 Mashable

• The AI takeover of Google Search starts now The Verge

• Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles Stratechery (repost, I think)

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS

• AI Tracker -- Track frontier AI research in real time.  Gladstone AI

• You’re Probably Underestimating AI Chatbots Wired

• I Asked ChatGPT To Control My Life, and It Immediately Fell Apart Vice (RIP)

• Scale AI deploying first LLM on a government classified network Intelligence Community News

• Visualizing Global Attitudes Towards AI Visual Capitalist

• Help! My Political Beliefs Were Altered by a Chatbot! Wall Street Journal

🎓 EDUCATION and AI

• edX Debuts Two AI-Powered Learning Assistants Built on ChatGPT PR Newswire

• Admissions Offices, Cautiously, Start Using AI Inside Higher Ed

• Colleges Race to Hire and Build Amid AI ‘Gold Rush’ Inside Higher Ed

• ChatGPT caught NYC schools off guard. Now, we’re determined to embrace its potential. Chalkbeat

  • Chancellor of New York City Public Schools writes about why they're now embracing AI

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Transformers Agent Hugging Face

  • This is whoa; the demo is worth it.

• Does GPT-4 Know Me Better Than My Girlfriend? Chain of Thought

• Language models can explain neurons in language models OpenAI

• FrugalGPT: How to Use Large Language Models While Reducing Cost and Improving Performance arXiv

• BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance arXiv

• Walkthrough of training a 50B parameter model

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Google's Music LM

  • Muzak and other stock music companies have a viable competitor. There's a waiting list that you should get on and/or find a friend who works at Google and will let you play with it.

• Character.ai

  • Have a conversation with a AI personas, based on both real and fake people. Fun, but not very good, in my experience. A real response:

• TikTok creators use AI to rewrite history Rest of the World

  • worth it for the image of the Mayan storm troopers alone

• [Caryn Marjorie,] a 23-year-old Snapchat influencer used OpenAI’s technology to create an A.I. version of herself that will be your girlfriend for $1 per minute Yahoo/Fortune

  • saved you a click: CarynAI made $71K in the first week

• AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app Ars Technica Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements? Return Predictability and Large Language Models SSRN

• Rewind. See what it's like to have perfect memory.