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- weekend ai reads for 2023-06-23
weekend ai reads for 2023-06-23
📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: FINANCE
Computer-driven trading firms fret over risks AI poses to their profits Financial Times
via carlo, Inside the chase for AI’s profit pools — As Boston Consulting Group says AI could add as much to $100m to the earnings of some ASX giants, Telstra’s tech guru explains how it plans to embed the hot tech throughout its business. The Australian Financial Review
SEC to Weigh New Artificial-Intelligence Rules for Brokerages Bloomberg
Asset managers pressure tech companies over possible AI misuse — Financial firms worried about liability for human rights issues associated with the burgeoning technology Financial Times
Google Cloud Launches Anti-Money-Laundering Tool for Banks, Betting on the Power of AI — The company is looking to set itself apart from a crowded field of surveillance platforms by reducing the amount of human input in the process of screening for money-laundering risks Wall Street Journal
📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK
You have to make people happy against their will
Pascal Smet, Brussels Minister of Mobility and Public Works (source)
🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE
AI Is a Lot of Work — As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. New York Magazine
How existential risk became the biggest meme in AI — “Ghost stories are contagious.” MIT Technology Review
related: The AI Apocalypse: A Scorecard — How worried are top AI experts about the threat posed by large language models like GPT-4? IEEE
A New National Purpose: AI Promises a World-Leading Future of Britain Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Exclusive: OpenAI Lobbied the E.U. to Water Down AI Regulation Time
related (?): Google challenges OpenAI’s calls for government A.I. czar CNBC
Biggest Losers of AI Boom Are Knowledge Workers, McKinsey Says Bloomberg
source: The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier McKinsey Digital
The Age of Chat — The new A.I. systems pretend to converse with us. But who’s writing the script? The New Yorker
Will AI Replace the Front Office in Pro Sports? Harvard Business Review
🎓 EDUCATION
How does AI change higher education? Workshop on July 13, Denver Graile
Marc Andreessen on AI saving the world | Ep 50. (1:49:03) Aarthi and Sriram, YouTube
Life-Changing “Personal AI” Device Supports Student Reading & Learning Abilities FE News
reads like a press release; reader beware
New A.I. Chatbot Tutors Could Upend Student Learning — Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments. New York Times
📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY
Rewiring The Web: The future of personal data Demos
from the executive summary:
Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications Andreessen Horowitz
Sparse Activation- Game-changer for the Future of Deep Learning. (2:58) Devansh: Machine Learning Made Simple, YouTube
What are Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)? (6:20) IBM Technology, YouTube
China's ByteDance Has Gobbled Up $1 Billion of Nvidia GPUs for AI This Year — Chinese companies are frantically pre-ordering GPUs before government sanctions fully kick in Tom’s Hardware
Spotlight — Open source data curation tooling for unstructured data
🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS
AI to find similar wines
Grammys Introduce New AI Rule: “Only Human Creators Are Eligible” for Nominations Consequence of Sound
Celebrities Use AI to Take Control of Their Own Images Wall Street Journal
ChatGPT prompts for civil society groups civictech.guide
Longshot — Generative AI for fact-checked content backed by credible sources, up-to-date information, and thorough fact-checking.
Midjourney Magazine Is Here—and It’s Soulless — Filled almost entirely with AI-generated images, this magazine embodies the threat artificial intelligence poses to journalism. Wired
🧿 AI-ADJACENT
Why aren't smart people happier? — A new way to think about brainpower. Experimental History