weekend ai reads for 2023-11-03

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: EXECUTIVE ORDER

• Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence The White House

• the real takes:

  • Joe Biden's ambitious plan to regulate AI, explained Understanding AI

  • Regulating AI by Executive Order is the Real AI Risk Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

• the facts

  • FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence The White House

  • via jenny, Biden Issues Executive Order to Create A.I. Safeguards New York Times

  • Three things to know about the White House’s executive order on AI — Experts say its emphasis on content labeling, watermarking, and transparency represents important steps forward.   MIT Technology Review

  • Q&A: White House AI advisor says US is 'catching up' to the tech, as Biden's new executive order demands transparency for the world's biggest AI models Business Insider

• the cons

  • White House Executive Order Threatens to Put AI in a Regulatory Cage R Street

  • The politics of Biden’s vast new AI order — The politics of AI are getting messy for Democrats. Biden’s executive order tries to offer something for every faction.   Politico

  • Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are inflating fears about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market Business Insider

• oh, and the bletchley declaration

  • The Bletchley Declaration UK Government

  • expert reaction to the Bletchley Declaration by countries attending the AI Safety Summit Science Media Centre

    • tl;dr: “heavy on vision, but, unsurprisingly, light on detail”

📻 QUOTES OF THE WEEK

adam, on the executive order

Alex Ker (source, sorry)

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• Can Artificial Intelligence Coach You to Better Health? — AI can now interpret your heart rate and other data from your fitness wearable.   Gentlemen’s Quarterly

• How to think computationally about AI, the universe and everything (18:00)   Stephen Wolfram, Ted

• Forget ChatGPT and Robo-Advisors — Recommendation Engines Are the Future of Wealth Management — Yet the path is fraught with challenges, including convincing advisors they are not being replaced by machines.   RIA Intel

• Generative AI is Boring Jake Browning

• Artists Lose First Round of Copyright Infringement Case Against AI Art Generators — While a federal judge advanced an infringement claim against Stability AI, he dismissed the rest of the lawsuit.   Hollywood Reporter

  • related, The Fight Over AI Music (feat. Grimes + Spotify CEO!) (14:23)   Cleo Abram, YouTube

🎓 EDUCATION

• Students Outrunning Faculty in AI Use — A new study finds over half of students use generative AI, while more than 75 percent of faculty members do not regularly use the technology.   Inside Higher Ed

• Is AI Quietly Weaving the Fabric of a Global Classroom Renaissance? Robert the Robot, Medium

• Meta’s top AI executive left the company for the world of edtech. He hopes Sizzle, a new AI-powered tutor, will be part of the future of education Fortune

• AI might disrupt math and computer science classes – in a good way The Hechinger Report

• Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content Microsoft Research Blog

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Parallel Bets, Microsoft, and AI Strategies Matthew Ball

• State of Open Source AI Book - 2023 Edition Prem

  • requires email sign-up; also available at Github

• Functions, Tools and Agents with LangChain (1 hour course)   Deep Learning.ai

• Microsoft pushes the boundaries of small AI models with big breakthrough Semafor

• Meta’s Free AI Isn’t Cheap to Use, Companies Say The Information ($)and

• What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing Confessions of a Code Addict, Substack

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• AI Modi started as a joke, but it could win him votes — AI-generated songs, like the ones featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are gaining traction ahead of India’s upcoming elections.   Rest of World

• Gen:48 — A Two-day Short Film Competition   Runway Studios

• Acoustic Analysis and Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Using Smartphone-Recorded Voice Segments Mayo Clinic

  • small n (267), but could greatly reduce the cost of diagnosis

  • diagnosed type 2 diabetes in 89 of women and 86 percent of men

• Before Sunset — Daily planning hacked, powered by AI.

  • blocks open times on your calendar so you can get through your to-do list

  • would be genuinely useful if corporate security policies didn’t limit its functionality

🧿 AI-ADJACENT

• LIGO Has Surpassed The Quantum Limit. We Can Explain. Science Alert