weekend ai reads for 2024-07-26

The inspiring and thought-provoking series of discussions among the athletes and experts on the panel provided an overview of the wide-ranging potential and uses of AI in the field of sport and more widely.

To help the 11,000 athletes competing at the event, the Paris 2024 Olympics will introduce Athlete365, an AI-based chatbot created in partnership with Intel. The chatbot will reportedly provide necessary information, clarify rules, and assist in navigation in six major languages.

In diving, the systems will track the athletes from the beginning to end of their dive, producing a 3D image using a specific mathematical algorithm, while at the same time generating image data and metrics such as speed of entry into the water. This data should also allow judges to see the distance between the diver and the board—a specific distance that was previously judged by eye, and that, if not maintained, is a reason for points deduction.

The Canadian Sport Institute has Canada’s Olympic athletes using ZoneIn, an AI-powered nutrition app, to make sure they eat and drink the right things in the run-up to the Games.

A life that doesn’t include death, it’s only half a life.

And send out some prayers on the wind before you sail. In another words, don’t think you can do this alone. Get some help. Use people who know things. Don’t be afraid. Someone knows you’re coming. An extra fish has been salted.

The reason current models are so large is because we're still being very wasteful during training - we're asking them to memorize the internet and, remarkably, they do and can e.g. recite SHA hashes of common numbers, or recall really esoteric facts.

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Individually, none of these might be decisive, but together they actually add up to a lot. I’m going to talk a bit about what I think the impact Trump’s policies will be for the tech industry, but first I want to go through this list.

In the age of Artificial Intelligence, we often compare humans and computers, asking ourselves which is “better”. But is this even the right question? The case of AirFrance Flight 447 suggests it isn’t – and that the consequences of asking the wrong question are disastrous.

Today Becca is talking with Tade Oyerinde, the CEO and founder of Campus, a fully accredited online community college. They discuss how Tade found a school that was willing to come on board and align with his mission, the challenges of getting investors on board, and what he thinks it will take to make the higher education system more equitable.

Real-time feedback for parents.

Enhanced learning about unfamiliar subjects.

Customized pathways for people with learning differences.

Risk 1: Overestimating AI’s intelligence

Risk 2: Cognitive atrophy through overreliance

Risk 3: The illusion of effortless wisdom

This cannibalistic phenomenon, termed model collapse, could halt the improvement of large language models (LLMs) as they run out of human-derived training data and as increasing amounts of AI-generated text pervade the Internet.

The AI Song Contest is an international competition showcasing the creative potential of human–AI co-creativity in the songwriting process. Teams consisting of musicians and AI experts – and anyone else interested in the combination of music and artificial intelligence (AI) – collaborate to create a song with AI as a creative partner.

What these studies suggest is that our vision, perception, understanding, and memory are like our autonomous cells — we don’t need to be aware of them for them to work. In fact, it seems to be that we see and understand not just when we are unaware of doing so, but even when we think we are not. This has major implications for design.

Feel free to have an in-person conversation with your most privacy-conscious friend about how resistance is futile. Your iPhone or Android won’t be picking it up, and, honestly, like what you’re saying is so interesting. Be realistic, buddy. No one cares about you.