weekend ai reads for 2023-09-29

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: SAM & MARK

• Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age — OpenAI’s CEO thinks he knows our future. What do we know about him?   New York Magazine

  • related (1), OpenAI gives ChatGPT access to the entire internet Venture Beat

  • related (2), OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares Wall Street Journal

• Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3 — In a rare interview, Meta’s CEO dives into where AI is going next, the new Quest 3 headset, and his ongoing rivalry with Elon Musk.   The Verge

  • related (1), Meta is putting AI chatbots everywhere The Verge

  • related (2), What I Found in a Database Meta Uses to Train Generative AI — Nobel-winning authors, Dungeons and Dragons, Christian literature, and erotica all serve as datapoints for the machine.   The Atlantic

📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Sam Altman; followed by a “just kidding” edit (source)

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• Indigenous Equitable AI (19:00)   Michael Running Wolf, International Conference on Machine Learning 2023

• via jason, Amazon steps up AI race with up to $4 billion deal to invest in Anthropic Reuters

• The case for investing a lot more in middle managers in the coming age of AI Quartz

  • related, Nearly half of CEOs believe AI could replace their own jobs, says new poll—and 47% say that’s a good thing CNBC

• via adam, Generative AI’s Act Two Sequoia Capital

• Microsoft is going nuclear to power its AI ambitions The Verge

  • related, AI might drive down carbon — if its energy use is kept in check Politico

• AI-generated naked child images shock Spanish town of Almendralejo British Broadcasting Corporation

🎓 EDUCATION

• Student Use Cases for AI Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick, Harvard Business Publishing

• Prompts for Education: Enhancing Productivity & Learning Microsoft, Github

• Coursebox   AI Course Creator: Create a course in under one hour with AI

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Copy Far “AI”

  • license for AI

    • related, An update on web publisher controls The Keyword, Google

• The Tong test: A new approach to evaluating artificial general intelligence Tech Xplore

• Paper: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A” Less Wrong

• Vector Databases Explained Vercel

• Unleashing AI — The AI Arms Race Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions

  • discussion of both sector opportunities and the technical arms race

  • PDF at the link

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Announcing ‘Be My AI,’ Soon Available for Hundreds of Thousands of Be My Eyes Users Be My Eyes Blog

  • great service that is hopefully available to more people

• Genmo   Introducing Replay, our most powerful text-to-video model yet.

• Historica   The Digital Footprint of Human History

  • good place to start to understand this project is AI’s role in writing history

• Danish AI Trained on Data From a Web Forum About Horses Bloomberg

• First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision) Roboflow

• AI Takes Over the Best Part of Fantasy Football—Trash-Talking Your Friends Wall Street Journal

🧿 AI-ADJACENT

• Meen is a Collaborative Typeface That Embodies the Middle Ground Print Magazine

  • “middle ground” is a merger of Comic Sans and Helvetica

  • related, Michael Bierut On Design Before and After The Computer and Why AI Might Not Be So Bad After All The Dieline