Weekly Review 22 March 2024

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

1. The "AI Sandbox", a community hub in Nelson for learning about AI: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350201857/ai-centre-aims-de-mystify-technology-and-benefit-region
2. Something interesting is going on with ChatGPT-when given prompts that cause it to slow down its reasoning, it does better at solving non-intuitive problems: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/just-your-brain-chatgpt-solves-problems-better-when-it-slows-down
3. The pitfalls of scientists trusting AI too much: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00639-y
4. So companies can save money on writing code, to spend it instead on checking and testing code? That is not an improvement: https://www.fastcompany.com/91045570/thanks-to-ai-the-coder-is-no-longer-king-all-hail-the-qa-engineer
5. An AI foundation model for industrial robots: https://spectrum.ieee.org/covariant-foundation-model
6. Just how badly does Nvidia dominate the chip market in AI? https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/jensen-huang-says-even-free-ai-chips-from-his-competitors-cant-beat-nvidias-gpus
7. It's possible to build an AI hunter-killer drone that targets a specific person in just a few hours: https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/ai-drone-that-could-hunt-and-kill-people-built-in-just-hours-by-scientist-for-a-game
8. How to use Nightshade to stop your art from being used to train generative AI: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-use-nightshade-protect-artwork-generative-ai/
9. Using AI to find new alloys: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/25/1062104/machine-learning-new-metals/
10. I wonder how many companies are out there whose AI is really underpaid overseas workers? https://spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startup
11. I just hope the AI Spark uses to replace workers is more useful than the one Watercare uses: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350212551/spark-lay-staff-ai-could-replace-some-roles
12. An AI-enabled bicycle light that detects cars and runs on a Raspberry Pi: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/raspberry-pi-powered-ai-bike-light-detects-cars-alerts-bikers-to-bad-drivers/
13. Five (bad) things that happened with social media can also happen with AI: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/13/1089729/lets-not-make-the-same-mistakes-with-ai-that-we-made-with-social-media/
14. Ten steps to building an AI application in Python: https://www.kdnuggets.com/build-an-ai-application-with-python-in-10-easy-steps
15. Replacing workers with AI makes other workers unhappy. Do we really need a study to know this? https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/advanced_workplace_tech_study/
16. Europe wants a treaty to make sure that AI respect human rights. The USA doesn't want this to apply to private companies. Why not? https://www.computerworld.com/article/3714289/us-pushes-to-weaken-international-human-rights-treaty-on-use-of-ai-software.html
17. OpenAI is now getting legal access to news publishers' content: https://dataconomy.com/2024/03/14/openai-partners-with-news-publishers/
18. While OpenAI is ahead in generative AI at the moment, it'd be naïve to believe that they will always be so: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/can-anyone-be-a-realistic-competitor-for-openai-
19. And the hackers are rubbing their hands in glee-AI generated code is known to be full of vulnerabilities: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714144/new-ai-assistant-threatens-software-engineering-jobs.html
20. Where the generative AI market could be going this year: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/what-s-next-for-the-genai-market-in-2024-
21. European standards and regulations around AI are now law: https://www.datanami.com/2024/03/13/eu-votes-ai-act-into-law-with-enforcement-starting-by-end-of-2024/
22. Forestry management with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/korea_digitize_forest/
23. Monitoring your employees is going to make them unhappy anyway, using AI just makes it worse: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/12/workplace-ai-robots-trackers-quality-of-life-institute-for-work
24. Repackaging other peoples' work using AI is still using other peoples' work: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/14/ai-powered-ad-ignites-creator-controversy-on-instagram/