Weekly Review 15 November 2024

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

1. How AI is impacting the food services industry: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-ai-is-reshaping-the-food-services-industry
2. AI models are starting to hit a wall in terms of trying to further improve performance without still more training data: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/09/openai-reportedly-developing-new-strategies-to-deal-with-ai-improvement-slowdown/
3. By this point OpenAI should just give up on AI safety: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/08/openai-loses-another-lead-safety-researcher-lilian-weng/
4. Almost half of IT security professionals think AI poses a hazard to security: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/hackerone-generative-ai-security-survey/
5. The problem I see with AI handling contract negotiations is that they are unlikely to spot any gotchas: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-contracts
6. Five free online resources about large language model AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-no-cost-learning-resources-for-llm-agents
7. Microsoft's Copilot AI is now being bundled with Office 365: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/7/24290268/microsoft-copilot-office-features-microsoft-365
8. Google's AI has discovered a critical vulnerability in the code for SQLite: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2024/11/07/googles-new-ai-tool-uncovers-critical-zero-day-vulnerability-in-sqlite/
9. The AI genie is out of the bottle, it's never going back in. So creatives need to learn how to use it to make their own work better, rather than trying to suppress it: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/06/ai-evangelists-pope-dr-strange-portugal-legal-showdown
10. I never understood art pricing. Is it the combination of AI control and robotics that made this so valuable to someone? https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/360481106/painting-ai-powered-robot-sells-22-million
11. It is more efficient to model semiconductor designs using AI: https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductor-manufacturing
12. AI used for employee recruitment can infer things about applicants like race, and use that to discriminate against them: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/08/ico_finds_ai_tools_can/
13. First the energy demands of AI accelerate climate change, now the junked hardware is increasing pollution: https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-waste
14. A lawsuit around the use of material for AI training sets has been dismissed, but will likely be refiled: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/08/openai_copyright_suit_dismissed/
15. The four essential principles to follow for innovating with AI: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/the-four-pillars-of-ai-driven-innovation/
16. Shrinking large AI models so that they can run locally: https://dataconomy.com/2024/11/06/on-device-ai-models-deeper-smaller-devices/
17. There is still no killer app for generative AI, and such an application is at least three years away: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/07/it_spend_europe_2025/
18. Google is developing an AI to compete with Microsoft's Copilot: https://dataconomy.com/2024/11/07/google-jarvis-ai-project-leak/
19. The author of this piece doesn't have a tertiary qualification and doubts their usefulness. A degree proves one thing, though-that the holder can complete a multi-year commitment to better themselves: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/christchurch/canterbury-mornings-with-john-macdonald/opinion/john-macdonald-we-need-to-ditch-this-obsession-with-uni-degrees/
20. While the job market for IT isn't great, for AI experts it's still pretty good, especially with these employers: https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/the-current-top-ai-employers
21. What's wrong with parents parenting, instead of AI? https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/ai-powered-parenting-is-here-and-a16z-is-ready-to-back-it/
22. Moving AI into the physical world. What could go wrong? https://dataconomy.com/2024/11/06/what-is-embodied-ai-why-meta-bets-on-it/
23. Given how easy it is for AI to leak their training data, is it really a good idea to use them to process classified information? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/safe-ai-champ-anthropic-teams-up-with-defense-giant-palantir-in-new-deal/
24. Another use of AI as a tool to undermine workers: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/04/perplexity-ceo-offers-ai-companys-services-to-replace-striking-nyt-staff/