weekend ai reads for 2023-06-16

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: MEDICINE

• Could chatbots help devise the next pandemic virus? — An MIT class exercise shows how easily AI tools can be used to order a bioweapon Science

• Google Cloud partners with Mayo Clinic on new AI tool to improve patient care UPI

• When Doctors Use a Chatbot to Improve Their Bedside Manner — Despite the drawbacks of turning to artificial intelligence in medicine, some physicians find that ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically with patients. The New York Times

• AI Promised to Revolutionize Radiology but So Far It’s Failing (2021) Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, Columbia University

📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Meredith Walker, President, Signal Guardian

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS

• Humans Are Biased. Generative AI Is Even Worse — Stable Diffusion’s text-to-image model amplifies stereotypes about race and gender — here’s why that matters Bloomberg

  • Great visualizations of the baises

• Europe Proposes Strict Rules for Artificial Intelligence New York Times

  • The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, explained World Economic Forum

  • The AI Act The Future of Life Institute

• Unfairness by Algorithm: Distilling the Harms of Automated Decision-making (Dec 2017) [PDF] Future of Privacy Forum

  • tl;dr on pp4 & 5

• via david, AI Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Future Harvard Business Review

• The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT — Balancing enthusiasm and fear in the age of AI The Markup

• No Person Is an Island: Unpacking the Work and After-Work Consequences of Interacting With Artificial Intelligence [PDF] American Psychological Association

  • related: AI's hidden toll on our brains Axios

🎓 EDUCATION and AI

• Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class Ethan Mollick & Lilach Mollick, Social Science Research Network

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• UAE’s Falcon 40B AI model is now royalty free for commercial, research use — The AI model can help raise efficiencies such as faster project starts, faster iterations, more flexible software development processes and easier license management Gulf Business

  • As of this writing, it’s #1 on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard

• possibly related: The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs arXiv

  • Despite the perceived value of finetuned LLMs, “imitation models only tend to mimic the style of the upstream LLMs on whose data they were trained on, not their factuality.”

• The Rise and Rise of A.I. Large Language Models (LLMs) Information is Beautiful

• Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs gwern.net

• Joon Park: Generative Agents and Human-Computer Interaction — On slow algorithms, social simulacra and generative agents, the role of researchers, and the perspective of human-computer interaction. [2:21:00, Generative Agents section starts around 1:30:00] The Gradient

• With new grant program, OpenAI aims to crowdsource AI regulation Tech Crunch

  • related (1): OpenAI’s policy statements under consideration OpenAI

  • related (2): Charting a Path to AI Accountability Anthropic

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Paul McCartney Made a New, Final Beatles Song—Helped by AI Pitchfork

• The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI — Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content Maggie Appleton

  • related (1): WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you The Verge

  • related (2): AI-Generated Junk Is Flooding Etsy — Coloring books, stickers, mugs, and T-shirts are being pumped out by AI-assisted hustlers. The Atlantic

• Ikea’s design lab is trying to make a couch fit in an envelope — Working with AI and Swiss design agency Panter&Tourron, Space10 has come up with a flat-pack sofa that only weighs 10 kilos. It’s Nice That

• AI-powered church service in Germany draws a large crowd Ars Technica

  • related: AI Jesus - Interactive with Chat ask_jesus, Twitch

• MusicGen: Simple and Controllable Music Generation Facebook

  • Click-through for samples

• I just bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, and I regret nothing — The still-updated World Book Encyclopedia is my antidote to the information apocalypse. Ars Technica