Weekly Review 28 June 2024

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

1. People are fine with AI helping to write news articles, but not writing the whole thing: https://futurism.com/the-byte/readers-detest-ai-generated-news
2. AI tools will make games developers more efficient: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/20/24182557/embracer-group-ai-empower-developers
3. California wants to make it illegal to replace tertiary faculty with AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/06/20/california-bill-aims-prevent-ai-replacing
4. Using AI to determine the origins of wine: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/ai-developed-protect-wine-industry
5. Large language model AI are now being out performed by much smaller models: https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-apple-microsoft
6. The increase in jamming has led to an increase in AI guided drones: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2149741/the-rise-of-ai-powered-killer-robot-drones.html
7. Monitoring AI with AI. Who monitors the monitoring AI? https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-to-monitor-ai-with-ai
8. Reproducibility is essential in science. How reproducible are results in AI research? https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350316024/sydney-student-who-uncovered-shocking-problem-global-cancer-research
9. How badly do hardware glitches affect the performance of AI? https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/21/hardware_faults_create_inferencing_errors/
10. How AI helps to prepare for the next pandemic: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-informatics-ml-and-ai-can-better-prepare-the-healthcare-industry-for-the-next-global-pandemic-2/
11. Is Anthropic's Claude really better than OpenAI's ChatGPT? https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/20/anthropic-claims-its-latest-model-is-best-in-class/
12. Exciting work. I do think the current approach to AI is a bit of a dead end: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jeff-hawkins
13. So Meta has a way of watermarking AI generated audio, but won't use it? Why? https://www.extremetech.com/internet/meta-developed-a-method-for-watermarking-ai-generated-audio-but-it-wont
14. How to get over writer's block as a researcher: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02013-4
15. Lots of companies experimenting with AI, but not much impact on jobs as yet: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/19/genai_workplace/
16. A movie written by AI, with human actors. How long until we have movies written by AI, performed by AI generated actors and marketed with AI generated collateral? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/the-first-film-written-by-ai-has-arrived-and-hollywood-is-terrified/NUCS2LO7E5E43G4A7BBWJYZOZQ/
17. AI and romance. I wonder how much AI catfishing is already happening? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/computer-says-yes-how-ai-is-changing-our-romantic-lives
18. I'm not surprised AI promotes Russian propaganda, plenty of otherwise smart humans fall for it too: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/19/ai_chatbots_disinformation/
19. How to deploy AI models into production: https://www.kdnuggets.com/deploying-machine-learning-models-a-step-by-step-tutorial
20. A collection of resources on AI ethics and bias: https://www.informationweek.com/data-management/quick-study-artificial-intelligence-ethics-and-bias
21. Ways that AI can contribute to aged care: https://dataconomy.com/2024/06/20/ai-aged-care-how-is-this-technology-helping-the-senior-community/
22. How generative AI is changing how people feel about their jobs: https://www.datanami.com/2024/06/18/genai-shaking-up-the-job-market-bcg-says/
23. This is what happens when institutions emphasise quantity of publications over quality. This is not a problem unique to China: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01697-y
24. The irony of modern AI is that the lowest-paid jobs are the hardest for AI to replace: https://futurism.com/the-byte/mcdonalds-abandoning-ai-drive-thrus