Weekly Review 22 September 2023

 Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon and Threads):

1. Generative AI uses a lot of cloud resources, but it's still not a significant portion of business spending on cloud: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/12/generative_ai_is_not_a/
2. Generative AI models are just getting too big: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3706510/ai-language-models-need-to-shrink-heres-why-smaller-may-be-better.html
3. I think I'd test AI generated test code more than generated code going in to an application: https://devclass.com/2023/09/12/fuzz-without-fuss-code-intelligence-introduces-ai-tool-to-write-test-code/
4. I thought Amazon sales listings couldn't get worse. Turns out, I was wrong. Now they're using generative AI to produce them: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3706869/amazon-deploys-generative-ai-to-write-sales-listings.html
5. Conversations around the ethics of AI requires contributions from many different disciplines: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/15/answering-ais-biggest-questions-requires-an-interdisciplinary-approach/
6. An overview of AI art generators: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/what-is-ai-art-generator/
7. It'll be quite some time before tools like ChatGPT are useful for clinical diagnoses: https://spectrum.ieee.org/chatgpt-doctor I'm sure the litigation lawyers are rubbing their hands at the thought of it, though.
8. But can it make Dad jokes? A personalised generative AI tool: https://dataconomy.com/2023/09/15/what-is-hyperwrite-ai-and-how-to-use-t/
9. Seen different AI art generators compared: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/best-ai-art-generators/
10. Data annotation is a crucial step in developing AI models. The number of jobs doing this is increasing: https://dataconomy.com/2023/09/13/ai-annotation-jobs-are-on-the-rise/
11. An overview of natural language understanding AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/ai-for-natural-language-understanding-nlu/
12. Some statistics around generative AI: https://www.datanami.com/2023/09/12/genai-adoption-by-the-numbers/
13. I suspect that rather than boosting my productivity, I'm going to lose a bit of time playing with these tools: https://www.kdnuggets.com/the-5-best-ai-tools-for-maximizing-productivity
14. This is one of the risks of AI that worry me the most-algorithmic manipulation of the mentally unwell: https://news.yahoo.com/windsor-castle-crossbow-intruder-apologises-163520505.html
15. Yet another way in which AI is pushing us all towards ever-greater levels of mediocrity in the arts: https://dataconomy.com/2023/09/13/what-is-covers-ai-and-how-to-use-it/