Weekly Review 3 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. A front-end to generate prompts for generative AI to test business ideas: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/how-inexpensive-ai-side-hustle-dimeadozen-sold-for-thousands.html I don't think this business is going to last very long before changes in the AI render it moot.
2. Any system that relies on human verification of decisions from an AI is going the have issues, because AI are easily biased and people are lazy: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/514948/supermarket-facial-recognition-failure-why-automated-systems-must-put-the-human-factor-first
3. It's going to take a while before large-scale AI is profitable. It's a new technology and there will be failures before it finds its feet: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/facebooks_value_plummets_as_zuckerberg/
4. Some developments in AI: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/23/1091649/three-things-we-learned-about-ai-from-emtech-digital-london/
5. Generative AI for personalised nutrition planning: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/04/empire-ai-dawns-cornell-lays-groundwork-public-good
6. Translators and illustrators have seen their livelihoods impacted by AI: https://80.lv/articles/a-third-of-translators-a-quarter-of-illustrators-have-lost-their-jobs-to-ai/
7. A ban on AI powered weapons is never going to work: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01029-0
8. Udio, an AI music generator: https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/ai-music-generator-udio
9. I don't think anyone should trust Meta's AI, let alone minorities like Maori: https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/04/23/should-maori-trust-meta-ai/
10. Vegan blue cheese designed by AI: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/24/1091118/climax-foods-vegan-blue-cheese-ai-dairy-free-machine-learning/ Also, not that keen on anything described as "creamy" from a company named "Climax"...
11. SkyNet is pleased-an AI controlled fighter out-fought human pilots: https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/ai-fighter-pilot
12. A man is arrested after using AI to fake a recording of his boss making racist remarks: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/ai_voice_arrest/
13. Ways that AI can cut costs in education: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/04/23/ai-finally-way-reduce-higher-ed-costs-opinion
14. Just like with the internet more than 25 years ago, companies are cramming AI into places they don't belong: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/ai-marketing-hype-is-coming-for-your-favorite-gadgets/
15. Ways in which AI can actually help software developers: https://www.informationweek.com/software-services/how-developers-of-all-skill-levels-can-best-leverage-ai
16. A tool that tells you how made up a response from a large language model AI is: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/25/1091835/chatbot-hallucination-new-tool-trustworthy-language-model/
17. How AI is affecting corporate finance operations: https://dataconomy.com/2024/04/22/navigating-the-future-ais-role-in-corporate-finance-transformation/
18. A description of Llama 3, Meta's latest open large language model: https://spectrum.ieee.org/meta-llama-3
19. I wish more universities would put more effort into the wellbeing of their staff, some of them are still pretty toxic places to work: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350256199/are-you-building-high-performing-workplace-culture
20. Practical ways to generate content using generative AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/integrating-generative-ai-in-content-creation
21. While the hype around AI can lead some to conclude it is useless, it really is useful for solving real problems (just don't rely on a large language model for everything): https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/25/ai_usefulness/
22. ChatGPT can be used to exploit security vulnerabilities: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/openai-gpt4-exploit-vulnerabilities/
23. More rivalry between the US and China, this time over AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2094131/microsoft-uses-its-genai-leverage-against-china-prelude-to-a-tech-cold-war.html
24. How to run Llama 3 locally: https://dataconomy.com/2024/04/24/how-to-run-llama-3-locally-with-ollama/