Weekly Review 20 September 2024

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

1. Do web browsers really need AI embedded in them? https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/10/web_browsers_ai_holdout_vivaldi/
2. An AI scientist that performs at the level of an early PhD student-a few good ideas, a lot of bad ones, and poor ethics: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-for-science-2
3. But will the government AI be able to put you on hold for three hours? https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350411368/government-launch-ai-chatbot-called-gov-gpt
4. What executives need to do to successfully implement AI in business: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/forrester-ceo-lessons-for-executives-to-implement-ai-successfully
5. Cloning handwriting using AI: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/my-dead-father-is-writing-me-notes-again/
6. Jobs in IT are going to be impacted by AI, especially entry-level helpdesk positions: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3507029/will-genai-kill-the-help-desk-and-other-it-jobs.html
7. The Digital Divide include access to AI technologies: https://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/11-09-2024/how-can-everyone-be-part-of-the-ai-revolution
8. Don't fall for the hard sell over AI: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/cios-resist-ai-hard-sell-as-adoption-tactics-shift
9. Remember folks, conspiracy theories are what stupid people talk about when they want to sound smart. So let an AI talk them out of it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-conspiracy-theories
10. How AI can contribute to marketing: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-is-transforming-marketing-strategies/
11. Oracle is building nuclear reactors to produce carbon-free electricity to power its data centres for AI computing: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/oracle-will-use-three-small-nuclear-reactors-to-power-new-1-gigawatt-ai-data-center
12. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were brilliant for their time, but they are flawed in that they assumed that an AI would have a physical presence. They are a good start, though: https://www.datanami.com/2024/09/11/the-three-laws-of-robotics-and-the-future/
13. A guide to the proper way to converse with an AI: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/11/delvish_llm_language/
14. AI can help to improve sustainability of business operations, but AI themselves have an environmental cost: https://www.informationweek.com/sustainability/how-ai-impacts-sustainability-opportunities-and-risks
15. Some numbers around the adoption of AI: https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/09/11/weka-genai-report/
16. Biased data will result in biased AI models. And businesses have a lot of biases: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-bias-influences-outcomes
17. This new AI can at least count: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/openais-new-reasoning-ai-models-are-here-o1-preview-and-o1-mini/
18. A voluntary commitment to combat deepfake nudes isn't very helpful, regulation is needed: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/white-house-extracts-voluntary-commitments-from-ai-vendors-to-combat-deepfake-nudes/
19. California continues to move towards regulation of AI, and tech companies continue to over-state the impact of it: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/11/24226251/california-sb-1047-ai-industry-regulation-backlash
20. Using one AI to design molecules, and another to explain the outputs of the first: https://spectrum.ieee.org/organic-solar-cells
21. Of course people are using AI to produce election propaganda, they don't have any real facts to attack their opponents with: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24243021/springfield-ohio-haitians-ai-generated-misinformation-trump
22. Using AI to debunk conspiracy theories: https://www.popsci.com/technology/conspiracy-debunk-ai-bot/
23. European Union takes legal action against Google over the data it uses to train AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3518073/google-faces-eu-investigation-over-ai-data-compliance.html
24. A generative AI app for making music: https://dataconomy.com/2024/09/09/how-to-create-music-jamboss-ai-2024/