Weekly Review 13 September 2024

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

1. An AI driven style guide for those shopping for clothes: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/05/m-and-s-using-ai-to-advise-shoppers-body-shape-style-preferences
2. An AI to perform financial compliance monitoring. But who is going to monitor the monitor? https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/05/sedric-monitors-the-communications-of-employees-at-financial-institutions-to-ensure-compliance/
3. Will an opt-in structure around copyright material solve the legal and ethical problems around AI training data? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/new-ai-standards-group-wants-to-make-data-scraping-opt-in/
4. Crowdstrike's contracts immunised against liability after their software crashed the world. Is there similar language in AI software contracts? https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/contractual-lessons-learned-from-the-crowdstrike-outage
5. Why Apple in particular? What is so bad about their AI that people don't want them scraping their websites for training data? https://futurism.com/the-byte/apple-ai-training
6. Tell me you like a toxic workplace without saying you like a toxic workplace: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-university-of-technology-survey-uncovers-concerning-law-school-workplace-higher-staff-bullying-rates/G27CB6BR3JGRPI2VX6DP4I4UEI/
7. AI alone is not going to solve problems, there needs to be social change as well: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-good
8. AI starts copying users' voices without their consent: https://futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-clone-voice-without-permission
9. Is banning AI from a writing competition really classist or ableist? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/generative-ai-backlash-hits-annual-writing-event-prompting-resignations/
10. More on the high demand of AI for energy and water: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/05/ai_water_energy/
11. The Australian government wants mandatory guardrails for AI in high risk applications: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/australia-proposes-mandatory-guardrials-ai/
12. 30% of generative AI projects fail. What's the failure rate of other software projects? https://www.techrepublic.com/article/30-generative-ai-projects-fail-amid-high-costs-and-risks/
13. Improving healthcare outcomes with AI symptom checkers: https://dataconomy.com/2024/09/03/how-can-ai-powered-symptom-checkers-and-diagnostic-tools-improve-healthcare-outcomes/
14. An overview of reinforcement learning: https://www.kdnuggets.com/understanding-the-basics-of-reinforcement-learning
15. Geothermal energy is getting a boost as tech companies seek low-carbon electricity to power their AI: https://www.popsci.com/technology/geothermal-ai/
16. Is Auckland Uni's VC starting to listen to staff? Or was it just the bad publicity that forced a back-down? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-university-course-shake-up-backdown-after-course-shake-up-sparks-academic-revolt/6YMS35GH7BHG5FR2UYOTNF3SDY/
17. A new token technology that allows AI to trade with one another: https://dataconomy.com/2024/09/02/the-first-ever-ai-to-ai-crypto-transaction-has-just-happened/
18. Do all tertiary graduates need to know about AI? https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/09/06/ensuring-every-student-will-graduate-knowing-ai-opinion
19. How generative AI is being used in healthcare: https://www.informationweek.com/it-sectors/how-healthcare-and-life-science-companies-are-using-genai
20. Some ways AI can help with HR functions: https://www.datanami.com/2024/09/05/how-ai-could-be-used-to-improve-talent-acquisition-and-management/
21. Bill Gates' thoughts on AI and its energy demands, including nuclear power:  https://www.theverge.com/24235730/bill-gates-ai-climate-change-energy-tech-microsoft-netflix
22. YouTube is developing tools to detect AI generated versions of content creators, among other things: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/05/youtube-is-developing-ai-detection-tools-for-music-and-faces-plus-creator-controls-for-ai-training/
23. AI can be both the hero and villain of climate change, by improving carbon neutral generation, but at the same time demanding more energy: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/are-bill-gates-energy-expectations-for-ai-optimism-or-realism/