Weekly Review 8 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. If quantum effects in brain cells are the cause of consciousness, could an AI ever become conscious? https://futurism.com/human-consciousness-quantum-physics 
2. Generative AI hallucinating ingredients for recipes: https://www.pcgamer.com/grocery-delivery-service-instacart-has-been-using-ai-to-make-up-impossible-recipes-and-generate-images-of-horrifying-and-hilarious-food/
3. AI are getting better to detecting content generated by AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-detection
4. Improving chatbots' terrible memory: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-bad-at-remembering-things-have-scientists-just-cracked-their-terrible-memory-problem
5. Improving Wi-Fi with on-chip AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/wifi-7-qualcomm
6. Learning to code is more than learning a programming language-it's learning how to structure your thoughts about a task and process so that they can be translated into a programming language. AI can't do that: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jensen-huang-advises-against-learning-to-code-leave-it-up-to-ai
7. Other technologies have been hailed as making a four-day work week inevitable. Instead, employers demanded more output from five days. I don't see AI changing this trend: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/510262/ai-could-make-the-four-day-work-week-inevitable
8. Did Elon Musk really buy Twitter just to get hold of its data for training AI? https://www.thestreet.com/technology/analyst-has-hot-take-on-why-elon-musk-really-bought-twitter
9. Every advance in technology has created more jobs than it destroyed, it's always the nature of the jobs that change. AI is not going to be any different: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-fears-jobs-technology
10. Copilot is having delusions of grandeur. How long before other AI start behaving the same way? https://futurism.com/microsoft-copilot-alter-egos
11. Three things that are needed for AI to progress, according to Bill Gates: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/16/bill-gates-ai-agents-could-change-how-we-live-our-lives.html
12. So AI generated a load of crap, and that crap was even more badly executed? I don't think we can blame the AI for this debacle: https://futurism.com/police-ai-willy-wonka
13. Parallels between the Willy Wonka experience and the Fyre Fest debacle of 2017. The difference is Fyre Fest used celebrities instead of generative AI to raise unrealistic expectations: https://futurism.com/willy-wonka-disaster-ai-fyre-fest
14. SEO hijacking using AI to rewrite highly-ranked websites: https://futurism.com/the-byte/man-horrified-ai-steals-content-errors
15. The insane hardware demands of a growing AI industry: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-founder-says-unnamed-customers-want-10-new-fabs-to-build-ai-chips
16. How AI is (potentially) changing science: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/05/1075865/eric-schmidt-ai-will-transform-science/
17. Seems a bit naïve that the owner of a generative AI porn site with a free-form prompt entry system is surprised at the things people enter. If you're going to do that kind of thing, you need to really lock the prompt entry down: https://futurism.com/the-byte/man-ai-powered-porn-site-horrified
18. What is Apple going to release in AI? Will it try to convince you that anything not-Apple is bad? Will it passive-aggressively try to convince you to spend more money on Apple products? https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/28/apple-ai-break-new-ground/
19. A voluntary set of guidelines for responsible generative AI: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/27/1069166/how-to-create-release-and-share-generative-ai-responsibly/
20. How academic programmes need to adapt to AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/02/28/next-step-higher-eds-approach-ai-opinion
21. A new approach to breaking guardrails in generative AI: https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/28/beast_llm_adversarial_prompt_injection_attack/
22. Using AI to stabilise the plasma in experimental fusion reactors: https://www.extremetech.com/science/scientists-design-ai-that-can-stabilize-fusion-reactors
23. Another way AI is impacting the environment-chip fabs and data centres use a lot of water: https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/29/growing_water_use_ai_semis_concern/
24. Spain is building Large Language Models for their local languages. Can we do the same for Pacific languages as well? https://www.computerworld.com/article/3713243/spain-will-create-foundational-ai-model-in-local-languages.html
25. Building an AI for your business can lead to disappointment. Here's how to cope with it: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-to-cope-with-ai-disappointment
26. What is the return on investment of AI? https://www.computerworld.com/article/3713340/the-roi-in-ai-and-how-to-find-it.html