weekend ai reads for 2023-05-26

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: SECOND BRAIN PRODUCTS

Tools that claim to help you save and recall more of what you read online, and other such things

• Curate & Hatch Ideas with Glasp AI

  • Paste some links to articles and Glasp will help find connections between them.

• Rio

  • Type the topic you’d like to learn about and it creates a reasonable podcast(?) on said topic.

• Tyles. A notes app but more.

  • Requires registration.

• Webscape, your AI copilot for the web.

  • Has a waitlist.

• Macro. The AI powered document workspace.

  • Interesting features; probably plays best with some of these other tools.

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS

• Generating Harms: Generative AI’s Impact and Paths Forward [PDF] Electronic Privacy Information Center

  • Long paper; useful guide to think about all the potential harms of AI

• AI Needs an Ethical Compass. This Tool Can Help. (2019) [PDF]  Ideo

• AI models can be a force to reduce bias, not reinforce it, Sam Altman says  Rest of World

• What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI? HBS

• Yes, Google’s AI-infused search engine will have ads Marketing Brew

• How Generative AI Changes Strategy HBR Podcast

🎓 EDUCATION and AI

• "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations" [PDF] US Department of Education

• AI a ‘credit risk’ to universities, warns Moody’s Times Higher Education (archive)

• How Schools Can Harness AI for Learning: Advice From the Khan Academy  Ed Week

  • (also links to a 53-minute presentation; not too much new if you've been even lightly following this space)

• What happens when AI reads a book Ethan Mollick, Substack

• On Artists, Artisans, Art, & AI ML Clark, Substack

  • subtitle: Faithful Reproduction, Myths of Individual Genius, and LLMs under Capitalism

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Google to work with Europe on stop-gap ‘AI Pact’ Tech Crunch

• White House unveils new efforts to guide federal research of AI AP News

• The man who put Microsoft in the AI lead Semafor

• DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet arXiv

• Ban LLMs Using First-Person Pronouns Out of the Crooked Timber

• MMS: Scaling Speech Technology to 1000+ languages Github

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Boring Report is an app that aims to remove sensationalism from the news and makes it boring to read. In today's world, catchy headlines and articles often distract readers from the actual facts and relevant information.

• Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold

  • move parts of an image around and GAN makes it look good; hard to explain but easy to understand if you see their examples

• A Swedish newspaper is having AI rap its articles in an attempt to get young people interested in the news Business Insider

• Paralyzed man regains this 'simple pleasure' thanks to AI 'digital bridge' Fox News

  • saved you a click: the "simple pleasure" is walking.

• Kadao - Extract Web Data Easily With AI

  • Jury is still out whether this is more reliable than Beautiful Soup

• Is Gen Z Ready to Embrace AI? It’s Complicated.  Ideo

• Adobe Firefly in Photoshop.  Adobe, Twitter (sorry)

  • 1 minute video. It really is magic.