Weekly Review 25 October 2024

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

1. The applications of AI in conserving coral reefs: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-machine-learning-helps-save-coral-reefs-by-listening/
2. Higher education is still under-prepared for AI: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/10/16/campus-tech-leaders-say-higher-ed
3. Applications of generative AI in coding: https://dataconomy.com/2024/10/15/how-gen-ai-is-impacting-low-code-software-development/
4. A set of tests that can determine if a general AI can modify its own code, and hence pose a threat: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/scientists-design-new-agi-benchmark-that-may-say-whether-any-future-ai-model-could-cause-catastrophic-harm
5. Google's AI can now scrape any kind of data from video, and summarise it: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/cheap-ai-video-scraping-can-now-extract-data-from-any-screen-recording/
6. AI is overhyped, but it is also a mistake to go the other way and dismiss its usefulness completely: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/marc-benioff-warns-that-ai-while-useful-is-overhyped-and-partly-blames-microsoft/
7. The security issues around generative AI: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2024/10/17/weighing-your-data-security-options-for-genai/
8. More legal action over AI companies scraping content: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/nyt-sends-perplexity-cease-and-desist-letter-over-ai
9. A lot of AI projects are failing because of poor data governance. Since most AI are built from data, that should not be surprising: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/tech-buyers-ai-project-failures/
10. Modern AI only look like they are intelligent, they are really quite stupid: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3566631/ai-isnt-really-that-smart-yet-apple-researchers-warn.html
11. Improving customer experience with generative AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-can-retailers-leverage-generative-ai-powered-agents-to-boost-customer-experience/
12. How an AI to assist with writing police reports came about: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/from-elon-musk-to-cop-car-chases-how-a-software-engineer-launched-a-police-ai-startup/
13. Workers want AI to take the drudgery out of their jobs: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/want-to-quit-work-an-hour-earlier-deploy-robot-or-ai/OMO4C44AMRGL5GFEMNWBFK5JFU/
14. Another tool to detect deepfakes and other AI trickery: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/startup-can-catch-identify-deepfake-video-in-realtime/
15. Students are studying online. Things are never going back the way they were: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350452007/higher-educations-quiet-revolution-vital-evolution
16. In the age of AI, we all need to be careful about where our likeness ends up: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/16/its-not-me-its-just-my-face-the-models-who-found-their-likenesses-had-been-used-in-ai-propaganda
17. How a law firm uses AI to process documents: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3564813/heres-how-cleary-gottlieb-law-firm-uses-genai-for-pre-trial-discovery-and-more.html
18. The role of AI in business coaching: https://dataconomy.com/2024/10/14/ai-enhanced-coaching-merging-technology-with-human-insight-for-executive-success/
19. Google recognises the need for nuclear power in meeting the energy needs of AI:  https://www.networkworld.com/article/3564290/google-bets-on-nuclear-power-to-drive-ai-expansion.html
20. More on Google's  plan to use nuclear reactors to power its AI: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/google-and-kairos-sign-nuclear-reactor-deal-with-aim-to-power-ai/
21. How a camera with embedded AI helped catch a rat in a conservation area: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/department-of-conservation-catches-elusive-norway-rat-with-help-of-ai-powered-cameras/7GDA52CDQRHOFMBT7JC26KSHDE/
22. A quirk in Unicode provides a channel for covert attacks on large language model AI: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/ai-chatbots-can-read-and-write-invisible-text-creating-an-ideal-covert-channel/
23. So far, AI is making lots of business for lawyers, even in frivolous suits like this one: https://gizmodo.com/parents-sue-school-that-gave-bad-grade-to-student-who-used-ai-to-complete-assignment-2000512000
24. An overview of AI agents, and how they can be used in the enterprise: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ibm-ai-agent-revolution-enterprise-it/