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- weekend reads for 2023-06-02
weekend reads for 2023-06-02
📰 ABOVE THE FOLD: AI SAFETY & REGULATIONS
This statement (in its entirety) that everyone in the world signed Center for AI Safety
OpenAI Could Quit Europe Over New AI Rules, CEO Sam Altman Warns Time
I cannot believe the shit that morons are getting up to with ChatGPT Max Read, Substack
How Rogue AIs may Arise Yoshua Bengio (U of Toronto professor, Turing Award winner)
One of the better arguments I've read. Darn "genocidal humans."
Juergen Schmidhuber, Renowned ‘Father Of Modern AI,’ Says His Life’s Work Won’t Lead To Dystopia Forbes
Counterpoint
Data in the Age of AI Pivotal, Substack
(best thing I read this week)
📻 QUOTE OF THE WEEK
And it took me a few weeks to process, and I thought about it and thought about it, and I realized that — you know what? — this is actually water. Right now, people totally misunderstand what AI is. They see it as a tiger. A tiger is dangerous. It might eat me. It’s an adversary. And there’s danger in water, too — you can drown in it — but the danger of a flowing river of water is very different to the danger of a tiger. Water is dangerous, yes, but you can also swim in it, you can make boats, you can dam it and make electricity. Water is dangerous, but it’s also a driver of civilization, and we are better off as humans who know how to live with and work with water. It’s an opportunity. It has no will, it has no spite, and yes, you can drown in it, but that doesn’t mean we should ban water. And when you discover a new source of water, it’s a really good thing.
David Holz The Verge
🏗️ FOUNDATIONS
Generative AI and large language models: background and contexts, via Chrystie Lorcan Dempsey
AI-Threatened Jobs Are Mostly Held by Women, Study Shows Bloomberg
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks Sydney might make a comeback The Verge
A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom New York Times
Brex's Prompt Engineering Guide Brex, Github
For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More? Andreessen Horowitz
A majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it themselves Pew Research
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🎓 EDUCATION and AI
AI will slightly drain the swamp of higher ed. 10% Less Stagnation Bryan Caplan, Substack
Students Adapt to ChatGPT as the Future of Tutoring Government Technology
4 ways AI will change the classroom with Khan Academy founder Sal Khan Fast Company
📊 DATA & TECHNOLOGY
Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush The Economist
Wall Street Banks Are Using AI to Rewire the World of Finance Bloomberg
AI Is Unlocking the Human Brain’s Secrets The Atlantic
summary of this paper: Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings Nature
🎉 FUN and/or PRACTICAL THINGS
A physical device! Takes a photo, generates a description, sends that description to GAN, then give you an image of what it thinks it sees. It's a game of telephone but with AI.
Ever wonder what the rest of the Mona Lisa looks like? Got @Adobe Firefly to help fill out the background for me with the power of AI Kody Young, Twitter (sorry)
Let AI tell you how to raise your kids.