Weekly Review 3 January 2025

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

1. Reducing AI model complexity via quantisation has a limit, and the industry might already be hitting it: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/23/a-popular-technique-to-make-ai-more-efficient-has-drawbacks/
2. How AI could help improve networking at events: https://dataconomy.com/2024/12/24/how-ai-is-turning-networking-into-a-science-of-connection/
3. The basics of AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/artificial-intelligence-noobs
4. AI are built from data, they are the ultimate garbage-in garbage-out machines: https://www.informationweek.com/data-management/data-quality-the-strategic-imperative-driving-ai-and-automation
5. AI is one of the factors driving the unionisation of the tech sector: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/from-ai-to-rto-unpopular-policies-may-fuel-tech-worker-movements-in-2025/
6. Hypothesis-driven AI in medicine and medical research: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/the-role-of-hypothesis-driven-ai-in-medical-research/
7. Using an AI to improve another AI is pretty much a race to the bottom: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/24/google-is-using-anthropics-claude-to-improve-its-gemini-ai/
8. Is anyone surprised that AI search can be tricked into giving misleading information? https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/chatgpt-search-can-be-tricked-into-misleading-users-new-research-reveals/
9. The ways in which AI can improve retail: https://www.bigdatawire.com/2024/12/19/why-the-future-of-retail-is-ai-everywhere/
10. A review of AI in 2024: https://www.kdnuggets.com/2024-biggest-moments-ai
11. If AI can do any job and replace any worker, who is making money to keep the economy going? https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/ai_job_replacement_comment/
12. How AI is being used in political campaigns-it's not all deepfake trickery: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-ai-is-changing-political-campaigns
13. AI are good at producing sales material but stand-alone companies that do so risk being overtaken by the incumbents: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/ai-sdr-startups-are-booming-so-why-are-vcs-wary/
14. I remain skeptical that AI is an existential threat to humanity, but I do agree with Hinton that we can't leave it up to profit-driven big tech to regulate it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/godfather-of-ai-raises-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years