weekend ai reads for 2023-09-15

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: ART

• AI is not creative. Yet. Good Internet, Substack

• Datasets as Imagination — Well-made datasets are works of art   Reboot

  • curation as art; on the role of artists in creating datasets

• The latest canvas for Refik Anadol’s AI-generated art? The new Sphere in Las Vegas Los Angeles Times

• Artists sign open letter saying generative AI is good, actually Tech Crunch

  • Open Letter: Artists Using Generative AI Demand Seat at Table from US Congress

• AI Art and its Impact on Artists [PDF]   ACM Digital Library

• AI Took the Stage at the World's Largest Arts Festival. Here's What Happened Cnet

📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Nate Soares, executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (source)

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• Musk Warns Senators About AI Threat, While Gates Says the Technology Could Target World Hunger Wall Street Journal

• The Technology Behind Generative AI: How Generative AI Works? Arth Shah, Medium

• A.I.’s un-learning problem: Researchers say it’s virtually impossible to make an A.I. model ‘forget’ the things it learns from private user data Fortune

• Open AI Founder on Artificial Intelligence's Future (24:01)   Bloomberg Originals, YouTube

• Large Language Models as Optimizers arXiv

  • RIP “Prompt Engineer” as a career

🎓 EDUCATION

• Why Professors Are Polarized on AI Inside Higher Ed

• Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses Nature

• To Test the A.I. Learning Hype, I Visited Classrooms New York Times

• The ‘perfect’ teaching assistant? Universities find new uses for AI CBC

• The potential of AI and Moodle Moodle Blog

• via clarence, Salesforce Gives $20M to Education, Expanding Pathways into Tech and AI Careers Yahoo Finance

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• LLM Benchmarks: What Do They All Mean? Why Try AI

• LLM Training: RLHF and Its Alternatives Ahead of AI

  • Math-y but approachable description of RLHF

• Databricks: Large Language Models: Application through Production Databricks, Edx

  • the course’s YouTube Channel

• Nvidia: The Dawn of the AI Era (2:53:45)   Acquired

• A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model Jake Cook

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• You need to talk to your kid about AI. Here are 6 things you should say. MIT Technology Review

• Video Transla

• Video Translate HeyGen Labs

  • translates videos into different languages, and also matches mouth movements to the translated langauge

  • YouTube example

• Sitcom “Friends” According to AI (0:39)   Afraid To Sleep, YouTube

  • Nice try but AI has a long way to go before it out-weirds Too Many Cooks, 2014 (11:11)

• Coca-Cola Y3000 Coca-Cola

• The Specter of AI-Generated ‘Leaked Songs’ Is Tearing the Harry Styles Fandom Apart 404 Media

• Stable Audio Create music with AI.

  • slightly better than some other solutions; free to try but on re-check it seems to be dealing with outages due to high demand

  • guidance and examples: On Prompting Stable Audio

🧿 AI-ADJACENT

• via matt, River Max Bittker

  • engaging page where you select an image and it loads similar images; even the sound effects are well-done