weekend ai reads for 2023-08-25

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: STRUGGLING TO DEPLOY AI

• CEOs extol benefits of AI on earnings calls but not in official filings — S&P 500 groups from a burrito maker to a cruise-ship operator tout promise of emerging technology ‎ The Financial Times

• Companies struggle to deploy AI due to high costs and confusion ‎ Axios

• How NOT to apply Artificial Intelligence in your business ‎ The Angry Customer, Substack

• 2023 Global Trends in AI Report ‎ S&P Global

  • Includes hits like, “Organizations’ IT infrastructure and data architectures are unfit for the AI revolution,” and “Enterprises with their data/infrastructure houses in order are poised to be future AI leaders”.

• AI Governance Is Not Just About The Models ‎ Trustible, Forbes

  • related, Beware the Emergence of Shadow AI ‎ Tech Policy Press

• Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies ‎ Gartner

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📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Scott Aaronson (source)

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🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is winning Big Tech’s AI war. Here’s how ‎ Fast Company

• AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge — DC District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell says human beings are an “essential part of a valid copyright claim.” ‎ The Verge

• Artificial Intelligence for Customer Experience ‎ The Angry Customer, Substack

• AI Funds Are Missing Out on the AI Stock Boom — Tech stocks are powering the bull market, but AI-powered ETFs are lagging behind ‎ Wall Street Journal

  • related (1), Danelfin

    • AI-enabled stock analysis that outputs a simple 1-10 score to indicate whether it’s a Buy, Hold, or Sell

  • related (2), SEC Insights

• The AI Power Paradox — Can States Learn to Govern Artificial Intelligence—Before It’s Too Late? ‎ Foreign Affairs

• Singapore workers are the world’s fastest in adopting AI skills, LinkedIn report says ‎ CNBC

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🎓 EDUCATION

• AI x Education Conference Report, August 2023 [PDF, Google Drive] ‎ AI x Education

• Southern New Hampshire Shuttering Kenzie Academy Boot Camp ‎ Inside Higher Ed

• My new syllabus for my new class on the economics of chatgpt ‎ Scott Cunningham (professor at Baylor University), Substack

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📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• AI is setting off a great scramble for data — Feeding ever-larger models is requiring makers to get creative ‎ The Economist

  • related, A Complete Guide to Data Labeling for AI ‎ Levity

• AI2 Dolma: 3 Trillion Token Open Corpus for Language Model Pretraining ‎ Allen Institute for AI

• Arthur Bench — The Most Robust Way to Evaluate LLMs ‎ Arthur AI

  • related, via adam, LLM Tracker

• Fine-Tuning ‎ OpenAI

  • Fine-tune OpenAI models, which now includes GPT-3.5 Turbo

• Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness ‎ arXiv

  • Most interesting for the 25 or so pages of defining consciousness; if you buy the authors’ definition then …

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🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Arccos Personal AI. Caddie Advice — Real-Time Strategies For Every Shot On Any Hole In The World

• How To Swap Your Face Into Midjourney Images ‎ Why Try AI

  • guide to using picsi.ai with Midjourney

• Introducing SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translations ‎ Meta

  • Try it at Hugging Face

• A Fun Film About a Topic That Scares Me a Lot — With A.I. and a six-core processor, my avatar learns a backflip. (12:16) ‎ New York Times

• AI Judge

  • Write two points of view of the same story and have them adjudicated by a black box

• Stock Images for AI ‎ Google DeepMind, Unsplash

  • Stock images that represent AI from DeepMind; good variations on a complex concept, and not a robot/cyborg in sight

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🧿 AI-ADJACENT

• Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design ‎ Dave Akin, University of Maryland

  • Also great work/life rules and razors, e.g.,andand

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