Weekly Review 8 November 2024

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

1. AI that build better AI, without human involvement of intervention, is something we need to be very careful about: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/the-quest-to-use-ai-to-build-better-ai/
2. Honestly, he's not wrong about AI being hyped. And I agree that in time it will become useful, once the hype has died down: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/linus-torvalds-reckons-ai-is-90-percent-marketing-and-10-percent-reality
3. Web search is another area where AI is taking over: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2024/11/01/openai-and-google-clash-in-the-evolution-of-ai-powered-search/
4. AI services is having a small but measurable impact on Microsoft's profitability: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/microsoft-reports-big-profits-amid-massive-ai-investments/
5. You don't need GPU to run AI, it can be done in CPU: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/cpu_gen_ai_gpu/
6. How AI is affecting jobs and the workplace: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/the-impact-of-ai-powered-automation-on-workforce-dynamics-and-job-roles/
7. If the training data isn't open, then the AI isn't open: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2024/10/28/osi-open-ai-definition-stops-short-of-requiring-open-data/
8. Another way AI is affecting the climate-AI run in data centers, which use a lot of concrete in their construction, and concrete production releases carbon: https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-concrete
9. A point-by-point overview of ChatGPT: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/gpt-4-cheat-sheet/
10. Generative AI is now being rolled-out to Gmail: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24282103/gmail-help-me-write-email-web-ai-gemini
11. Here the AI is helping programmers be more productive, rather than replacing them. But given the known security issues with AI-generated code, is it too much to have 25% generated by AI? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/google-ceo-says-over-25-of-new-google-code-is-generated-by-ai/
12. Generative AI comes with a lot of legal risks: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/the-intellectual-property-risks-of-genai
13. Five things that Generative AI is expected to impact in 2025: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/generative-ai-trends-2025/
14. Microsoft is focusing on running AI inferencing in Azure rather than training: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/microsoft_q1_fy_2025/
15. A swarm of cooperating agents might be the way to truly powerful AI: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3594235/agentic-ai-swarms-are-headed-your-way.html
16. An overview of AI in healthcare: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/how-ai-is-shaping-the-future-of-the-healthcare-industry/
17. You could achieve general AI with a billion people using abacuses. That doesn't mean it's feasible: https://futurism.com/sam-altman-agi-achievable-current-hardware
18. Am I being cynical in thinking that an AI powered web search engine is going to hallucinate web sites? https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360472566/openai-adds-search-chatgpt-challenging-google
19. The current tools an AI developer needs to be familiar with: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/the-essential-tools-every-ai-developer-needs
20. Good clean data is essential for training AI. Here are ten Python commands that help clean data: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-useful-python-one-liners-for-data-cleaning
21. Combining AI with Google maps: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/31/24283970/google-maps-gemini-ai-answer-questions
22. This is the best use of AI in journalism-using it to support their work by transcribing recordings, rather than trying to replace the reporters entirely: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/the-new-york-times-shows-how-ai-can-aid-reporters-without-replacing-them/
23. If you're training your AI with other people's work, you really should know what plagiarism is: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/perplexitys-ceo-punts-on-defining-plagiarism/
24. Giving instructions in hexadecimal can defeat AI guardrails, in this case tricking ChatGPT into writing exploit code: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/chatgpt_hex_encoded_jailbreak/