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

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

  • PDF of full report

  • 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

• Saved Memories

• Sommeli-AI

  • 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

• Slumbr

• 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