weekend ai reads for 2023-10-27

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: WORKFORCE

• Playbook: Using AI in ways that enhance worker dignity and inclusion Charter Works

• 3 Things Generative AI Can Never Do Better Than Humans A. Team

• Robots learn faster with AI boost from Eureka Tech Xplore

• Dropping Out of College to Join the AI Gold Rush — These teens and 20-somethings worry that waiting for graduation will mean missing out on a wave of investment   Wall Street Journal

• How AI is reshaping mentorship for Gen Z workers Digiday

📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• AI Is About to Photoshop Your Memories — The smartphone camera roll is a digital diary. What happens when the images inside are more perfect than real?   The Atlantic

• Bill Gates does not expect GPT-5 to be much better than GPT-4 The Decoder

  • source: “With AI, drugs can be developed much faster” Handelsblatt (German) ($)

• An Industry Insider Drives an Open Alternative to Big Tech’s A.I. — The nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, led by a respected computer scientist who sold his company to Apple, is trying to democratize cutting-edge research.   New York Times

• Clearview AI and the end of privacy, with author Kashmir Hill The Verge

  • related, AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type — The AI models behind chatbots like ChatGPT can accurately guess a user’s personal information from innocuous chats. Researchers say the troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads.   Wired

• via GS, Why Fei-Fei Li is Still Hopeful About AI (… and Elon) (1:01:49)   On with Kara Swisher Podcast, YouTube

• Amazon’s Andy Jassy Plans to Crash the AI Party The Information ($)

• OpenAI is too cheap to beat — Data matters; infrastructure matters more   Generating Conversation, Substack

  • they show their work

• AI Takes on Expiration Dates — The fight against food waste is getting high-tech.   The Conversation

• Ideologies of Awe & AI Art at the MoMA — Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised, What Models Make Worlds, and Anatomy of an AI System.   Cybernetic Forests, Substack

🎓 EDUCATION

• Educause 2023: How AI Could Impact Student Success in Higher Ed — Artificial intelligence can support adaptive learning, but institutions should be mindful of how data is used.   Ed Tech Magazine

• Introducing Canva’s biggest education launch Canva Newsroom

• Save time on lesson planning with more than 100 ready-to-teach curriculum-supported lessons for K-8 subjects like Math, Science, English, ELA, and Art, all fully customizable to suit the needs of every learner.

  • host of resources and lessons

• Education Technology Industry's Principles for the Future of AI in Education Software & Information Industry Association

• The Near-term Impact of Generative AI on Education, in One Sentence Improving Learning

  • “Generative AI greatly reduces the degree to which access to expertise is an obstacle to education.”

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Embeddings: What they are and why they matter Simon Willison’s Weblog

• Can AI fix Wall Street’s ‘spaghetti code’ crisis? Microsoft and IBM are betting that it can Fortune

• Azure OpenAI Service vs OpenAI API Chris Coulson's Developer Notes

• via DF, CNN Explainer — Learn Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in your browser poloclub, Github

• Machine Learning Model Deployment Patterns Gideon oboro, Medium

  • related, AI Agents vs Developers E2B Blog

• While tech companies play with OpenAI’s API, this startup believes small, in-house AI models will win Tech Crunch

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• GPT-4V "Describe this image" 🔃 Dall-E 3 "Generate this image" Recursive loop Conrad Godfrey, Twitter (sorry)

  • animated gif; mona lisa gets weird

• This AI Startup Helps Insurers Spot Cognitive Decline in Older Drivers — The company has raised $22 million in funding from investors, including an Asian insurance giant.   Bloomberg

• every app that adds AI looks like this Both Are True, Substack

• Shutterstock — Make stock your own with creative AI

• Riffusion — Type in lyrics and hear them come to life

  • requires signup

• ‘Here is the news. You can’t stop us’: AI anchor Zae-In grants us an interview The Guardian

🧿 AI-ADJACENT

• Star Wars 1923 (1:54)   douggy, YouTube