weekend ai reads for 2023-11-17

programming note: we are off next week and will be back on 01 December

📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: STATES OF AI

• State of AI Report 2023 State of AI

  • the report [Google Slides]

  • blog post & podcast (16:49) for shorter summaries

• Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023 Github Blog

• State of AI Retool

  • 35.2% of respondents are investing in AI to keep “up with trends” … that sounds like a terrible idea

• The state of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s breakout year [PDF]   McKinsey & Company

• Everything you need to know about AI in 2023 World Economic Forum

📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Jeanette Winterson (source)

🏗️ FOUNDATIONS & CULTURE

• Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable The Verge

  • related, The Lack Of Clarity On The AI Pin’s Accessibility Begs The Question: Humane For Whom? Forbes

    • we’re overlooking the misuse of “begs the question”

• SAG Actors, I want to make you aware of some of the language in the #AI portion of the tentative SAG agreement. Justine Bateman, Thread Reader

  • a critical view of the agreementand

• AI churns out lightning-fast forecasts as good as the weather agencies’ — Running in mere minutes, AI forecasts are surpassing supercomputers in speed and accuracy   Science

• OpenAI’s New Weapon in Talent War With Google: $10 Million Pay Packages for Researchers The Information ($)

• Hallucination Leaderboard — Leaderboard Comparing LLM Performance at Producing Hallucinations when Summarizing Short Documents   Vectara, Github

  • Top three ranked by accuracy, as of 2023 November 01:

    • GPT 4: 97.0%

    • GPT 3.5: 96.5%

    • Llama 2 70B: 94.9%

  • counterpoint from Jim Fan Twitter (sorry)

    • … and more

• Race for First Drug Discovered by AI Nears Key Milestone Bloomberg

• Is OpenAI about to replace a bunch of startups? It's complicated Supervised

🎓 EDUCATION

• Khan Academy CEO Says Using AI in Education is ‘An Imperative’ at Harvard-MIT Event The Harvard Crimson

• Evaluating AI Technologies in Education [Google Docs]   SNHU, C3L/UniSA, GRAILE

• ‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy — Tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors.   Nature

• CCA’s Resources for Generative AI and Student Success Complete College America

• Artificial Intelligence skills can increase salaries by as much as 40% University of Oxford News

• AI, the Next Chapter for College Librarians Inside Higher Ed

📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY

• Don’t Build AI Products The Way Everyone Else Is Doing It Builder.io Blog

  • useful to anyone building a product, internal or external

• The System Model and the User Model: Exploring AI Dashboard Design arXiv

• The Story of RLHF: Origins, Motivations, Techniques, and Modern Applications Deep (Learning) Focus, Substack

• The New Stack and Ops for AI (34:09)   Open AI, YouTube

• Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat? Simon Willison’s Blog

• Pressure Testing GPT-4-128K With Long Context Recall Greg Kamradt, Twitter (sorry)

• Underutilized. — Generative AI is just Big Data 2.0.   Cybernetic Forests, Substackand

• via anonymous, “Make It Real” AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software Ars Technica

  • “Well, this is a long way from making shipping software, but it is bad for people like me that like making prototypes.”

  • related, A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft — Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.   The New Yorker

🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS

• Planfit — Get unlimited and free workouts by AI. Highly-personalized coaching by AI trainer. Easy-to-use, effective fitness planner & tracker.

  • check with your doctor before beginning any exercise program or something

• via betty, Clues to the Lives of North America’s First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater Smithsonian Magazine

• Dynamic — Real-time image generation with Latent Consistency.

  • once you figure out the UI, it almost feels like magic

• Unemployed Man Uses AI to Apply for 5,000 Jobs, Gets 20 Interviews — “I see it as taking back some of the power that’s been ceded to the companies over the years.”   The Byte

  • ai will help job applications proliferate which will create more noise for recruiters who will use ai to filter the noise

  • instead of updating our resume, we’ll update our GPT?

• Whimsical — AI for Mind Maps

  • generous free tier

• via cecilia, AI, Ain't I A Woman? (3:32)   Joy Buolamwini, YouTube

🧿 AI-ADJACENT

• Two riders were approaching Internal Exile, Substack