weekend ai reads for 2023-09-08

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: HOW

• How ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool” — Until recently, AI models were specialized tools. Modern LLMs are different.‎ ‎ Ars Technica

  • (Another) excellent LLM explainer

• How Midjourney Reads a Mugshot — The Algorithmic Hauntology of Sumatraist Aurorapunk ‎ Cybernetic Forests, Substack

  • Exploration of a famous mugshot through Midjourney that is about much more than that.

• How worried should you be about AI disrupting elections? — Disinformation will become easier to produce, but it matters less than you might think ‎ The Economist

• How ByteDance Scales Offline Inference with multi-modal LLMs to 200 TB Data ‎ Anyscale

• How to Prepare for a GenAI Future You Can’t Predict ‎ Harvard Business Review

  • AI recognition of patient race in medical imaging: a modelling study

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📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Dacher Keltner (source)

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🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI ‎ Social Science Research Network

• AI and Leviathan: Part I — The institutional economics of an intelligence explosion ‎ Second Best

• Introducing Claude Pro ‎ Anthropic

  • Generally, we’ve found Claude to be better for text-based tasks (summaries, etc.), and ChatGPT to be better for creative tasks; your mileage may vary

• Can We Talk to Whales? — Researchers believe that artificial intelligence may allow us to speak to other species. ‎ The New Yorker

  • related (1), AI and the Doctor Dolittle challenge ‎ Current Biology, Elsevier (sorry)

  • related (2), Could an orca give a TED Talk? (13:48) ‎ Karen Bakker, Ted

  • related (3), How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth ‎ Wired

• 7 ways AI will completely change the way you work ‎ Section School

  • avoids most of the usual platitudes and warnings

  • related, Walmart will give 50,000 office workers a generative AI app ‎ Axios

• The Midjourney basics edition ‎ Explainable, Substack

  • related, ChatGPT Glossary: 41 AI Terms that Everyone Should Know ‎ Cnet

    • AI may have written this article.

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🎓 EDUCATION

• How one elite university is approaching ChatGPT this school year — Why Yale never considered banning the technology. ‎ MIT Technology Review

• Higher Ed’s Apprehension of AI Overstated, Cengage Survey Finds ‎ Cengage Group

• Teaching with AI ‎ OpenAI

  • related, Educator FAQ ‎ OpenAI

• UNESCO seeks regulation in first guidance on GenAI use in education ‎ Yahoo Finance

• Researchers Used AI to Rezone School Districts. Here’s What They Found ‎ Education Week

• Harvard Medical School Creating AI in Medicine Ph.D. Track ‎ Healthcare Innovation

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📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning it on Bad AI-Generated Images ‎ Max Woolf’s Blog

• AI vs a giraffe with no spots ‎ AI Weirdness

• AutoGPT Tutorial - More Exciting Than ChatGPT (23:55) ‎ Santral Media, YouTube

• via adam, The Point of LangChain — with Harrison Chase of LangChain (1:00:50) ‎ Latent Space

• LinkTransformer

  • AI-powered dataframe operations to link data frames, deduplicate, cluster, and perform multilingual merges.

• GGML — ggml is a tensor library for machine learning to enable large models and high performance on commodity hardware

  • Run 7B Llama on a MacBook Pro

  • related, WebLLM

    • Llama 2 7B/13B running “inside the browser with no server support and accelerated with WebGPU.” Takes a few minutes to initialize the first time.

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🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI ‎ The Atlantic

• Wikipedia search-by-vibes ‎ Lee Butterman

  • How this was made

• Carvana Creates 1.3M+ Unique AI-Generated Videos for Customers ‎ Carvana

• “I Am the Only One Who Should Recite Them”: When Werner Herzog Narrates Your AI Poetry Collection ‎ Literary Hub

  • Includes two audio samples

• Level to Explain

  • Explain concepts; filters for different knowledge levels (e.g., “explain like I’m 5”) and for a certain length

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🧿 AI-ADJACENT

Computer Ballet & Animations (6:02) ‎ computerartist, YouTube