Weekly Review 10 May 2024

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

1. Using AI to fake celebrities' voices to teach kids maths. That's never going to go wrong, is it? https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/meet-the-ai-celebrities-teaching-kids-math-and-physics
2. A large language model AI trained on protein sequences is designing gene editing proteins: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01243-w
3. Big tech continues to spend billions on AI: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350259351/big-tech-keeps-spending-billions-ai-theres-no-end-sight A lot of that money is going to end up wasted.
4. Using a generative AI as a travel guide: https://spectrum.ieee.org/perplexity-ai-2667878262
5. The concerns around Artificial General Intelligence are probably over-blown, but there is still some cause for caution: https://futurism.com/the-byte/experts-terrified-zuckerberg-agi
6. There needs to be more education about AI, to address the looming skills gap: https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/ai-skills
7. Billions of dollars for another crappy large language model AI? Time for a rethink of priorities in AI: https://futurism.com/the-byte/vc-firms-elon-musk-xai-fundraising
8. Yet another example of an AI being claimed as sentient. Plot twist, they're not! https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a60606512/claude-3-self-aware/
9. I've always had to sign copyright of my articles over to the publishers, but for journals that don't require this, a collection society can mean a small income stream for researchers: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01246-7
10. Faces generated by AI are indistinguishable from real faces, and white faces are the hardest to identify as fake: https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/ai-vs-human-faces
11. What was that mysterious AI? https://futurism.com/the-byte/mystery-powerful-ai-appears-then-disappears Someone rorting the system to generate more buzz for funding I expect
12. Five novice mistakes when starting with AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/avoid-these-5-common-mistakes-every-novice-in-ai-makes
13. Companies want to use AI, but are not prepared for it: https://www.datanami.com/2024/04/29/lenovo-survey-most-global-tech-companies-unprepared-for-ai-use/
14. Mandatory reporting of intrusions and near-misses of AI systems is coming: https://dataconomy.com/2024/05/02/new-ai-security-bill/
15. Monitoring bears with AI: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/02/japan_ai_bear_detection/
16. More lawsuits over the data used to train AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/30/us-newspaper-openai-lawsuit
17. The AI skills needed to boost employees' income: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2097040/workers-with-ai-skills-are-getting-these-pay-cash-premiums.html
18. Microsoft continues its ban on US police departments using its AI services for facial recognition: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/microsoft-bans-u-s-police-departments-azure-openai-facial-recognition/
19. My unpopular opinion-large scale use of AI requires large scale use of nuclear power: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/ai_nuclear_dc_uranium/
20. AI driven search driving traffic to AI generated content, that is completely wrong: https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/
21. English is such a hard language to use well, I can understand why researchers want to use AI to write their articles: https://dataconomy.com/2024/04/26/ai-usage-in-scientific-literature/
22. Misuse of AI has the potential to detrimentally affect people's lives, so I think it's entirely reasonable for government to regulate it: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/should-government-be-allowed-to-regulate-ai-
23. Soon you'll be able to create an AI clone of yourself, to do your own job: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2097112/why-youll-soon-have-a-digital-clone-of-your-own.html
24. A chatbot for the ethics of AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/05/02/yale-freshman-creates-ai-chatbot-answers-ai