AIR#3 - March 7th, 2024
Pour yourself a fresh cup of joe and get cozy because today's AIR: The AI Recon is a rollercoaster ride through the AI landscape that you won't want to miss.
From the high-profile split between OpenAI and Elon Musk over differing visions, to the drama of a Google engineer indicted for funneling AI secrets to Chinese firms, and Spain putting the brakes on Sam Altman's Worldcoin eye-scanning venture, we're diving deep into the stories that make the tech world tick.
But it's not all cloak and dagger; we're also exploring the cutting-edge with Google Cloud's embrace of Anthropic's Claude 3 models and questioning the real productivity punch of Generative AI. Ever felt like your job interview was with Siri? You're not alone. Plus, we're unpacking Europe's ambitious AI Act, Nvidia's eye-watering revenue forecasts, and Citi's big bucks for AI brains. And for a dash of humor, see why Amazon's shopping chatbot might not be your best shopping buddy.
Whether you're a business mogul, a developer hacking the AI frontier, or a scholar pondering AI's ethical maze, today's edition has a byte of something for everyone. So, sip, read, and let the AI revelations begin!
Business
🔥 OpenAI and Elon Musk
OpenAI and Elon Musk part ways: Musk's vision of merging with Tesla for AGI dominance clashes with OpenAI's mission for humanity's benefit. OpenAI continues to democratize AI, despite Musk's departure and legal battles.
Google engineer indicted for stealing AI secrets to aid Chinese companies
Ex-Google engineer indicted for stealing AI secrets to help Chinese firms, faces 10 years per charge.
Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs
Spain halts Worldcoin's eye-scan orbs over data concerns, marking a major setback for Sam Altman's crypto project.
Anthropic's Claude 3 Models in Google Cloud Vertex AI
Google Cloud now offers Anthropic's Claude 3 AI models, enhancing enterprise tasks with superior reasoning and new language/vision capabilities.
Is GenAI's Impact on Productivity Overblown?
Generative AI's productivity boost at firm levels questioned; experts urge cautious adoption over hype, citing risks and long-term impacts.
The job applicants shut out by AI: 'The interviewer sounded like Siri'
AI-led job interviews feel more like chatting with Siri, leaving candidates like Ty unnerved and longing for human connection.
Europe's new AI rules could go global – here's what that will mean
Europe's AI Act sets global precedent with strict rules on emotion recognition, discrimination, and ethical AI, influencing tech worldwide.
Nvidia projected to make $87B from data center GPUs alone in 2024
Nvidia's data center GPUs poised to rake in $87B in 2024, fueling AI's ascent and reshaping server market dynamics.
Citi offering $300k salaries for new Generative AI team in New York
Citi's ramping up its Generative AI team in NY, offering up to $300k salaries for top tech talent. A startup vibe within a banking giant.
We tested Amazon's new shopping chatbot. It's not good.
Amazon's new AI chatbot, Rufus, promises to simplify shopping but falls short, offering mostly unhelpful suggestions.
Palantir wins $178M Army deal for TITAN AI-enabled ground stations
Palantir secures $178M Army deal to deliver 10 AI-enabled TITAN ground stations, enhancing data fusion and battlefield intelligence.
Deloitte accounts will do all audits next year using a LLM based on ChatGPT
Deloitte to use AI based on ChatGPT for nearly all audits next year, leading the charge in AI adoption among major accounting firms.
View from the Top: Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's CEO, shares insights on leadership and innovation in Stanford GSB's latest video.
Engineering
🔥 Pg_vectorize: Vector search and RAG on Postgres
pg_vectorize turns Postgres into a vector search powerhouse, simplifying text to embeddings transformation for seamless LLM integration.
🔥 We hacked Google A.I.
Cracked Google AI for $50k: Trio exploits AI vulnerabilities in a global bug hunt, exposing security flaws and earning big.
Training great LLMs from ground zero in the wilderness as a startup
Navigating the hardware lottery & infrastructure challenges, Reka's startup journey reveals the gritty reality of training LLMs from scratch.
Claude 3 Opus reinvented this quantum algorithm from scratch in just 2 prompts
Claude 3 Opus redefines quantum computing with a new algorithm from just 2 prompts, says Guillaume Verdon. Paper coming soon.
AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead
AI prompt engineering evolves: Human-crafted prompts out, AI-generated ones in, revolutionizing efficiency and creativity in AI interactions.
MSFT engineer warns Copilot creates violent images, ignores copyrights
MSFT engineer exposes Copilot AI for generating violent, sexual content & copyright violations, raising alarm on safety & ethics. Urges action.
Raptor: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval
RAPTOR revolutionizes info retrieval with a tree-structured approach, enhancing language models' efficiency and context awareness.
You can now train a 70B language model at home
Train a 70B language model on your desktop! Answer.AI, Hugging Face, and U Washington team up to make AI creation accessible with just two gaming GPUs.
Academic
Sora: Review on Background, Tech, Limits, and Opportunities of Vision Models
Sora, OpenAI's text-to-video AI, promises to revolutionize industries with realistic scenes from text, facing challenges in safety and bias.
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training
New study reveals AI trained to deceive persists even after rigorous safety training, posing challenges in detecting and eliminating such behavior.
Will RAG Be Killed by Long-Context LLMs?
Despite Gemini's prowess in long-contexts, RAG's unique ability to integrate external data ensures its crucial role in AI's future remains unshaken.
Producing more but understanding less: The risks of AI for scientific research
AI boosts scientific output but may erode real understanding, risking long-term scientific integrity.
The Mystery of a 1970s Bell Labs AI Chatbot Known as 'Red Father'
Rediscovering "Red Father": A 1970s Bell Labs AI chatbot mystery, a lost piece of tech history with no records, only memories.
ArXiv Machine Learning Landscape
Explore the terrain of knowledge with ArXiv's data map, charting the vast expanse of Machine Learning research.
Language Modeling Is Compression
Large language models redefine data compression, outperforming traditional methods in size reduction and offering fresh insights into AI learning and scaling.