22 Articles about the Business of Running an AI Company

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Trump orders wide-ranging "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research – Axios

AI Investors Want More Making It and Less Faking It – Wall Street Journal

The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions – Wired

Major music studios strike licensing deals with AI firms - Semafor 

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research – New York Times 

How the U.S. Economy Became Hooked on AI Spending – Wall Street Journal 

Are we in an AI bubble? Eight charts will help you decide. – Washington Post  

The AI boom isn't going anywhere – Axios  

How Trillions in New AI Debt Will Test the Bond Market – Wall Street Journal

OpenAI tests ChatGPT in group chats - Axios 

Balance sheets, cash flows are showing the strain of AI investments and forcing investors to think about companies differently – Wall Street Journal

When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts – Wall Street Journal

OpenAI fights order to turn over millions of ChatGPT conversations – Reuters

The risks of giving ChatGPT more personality - Axios

The AI Cold War That Will Redefine Everything – Wall Street Journal

Google, the sleeping AI giant, awakens - Axios

OpenAI Wants Brands to Allow Their Mascots to Appear in Gen AI Videos – Wall Street Journal

AI stocks waver as ‘Big Short’ investor bets against Palantir, Nvidia - Washington Post

Stability AI largely wins landmark UK intellectual property lawsuit brought by Getty Images – Associated Press

Who Will Pay for the AI Revolution? Retirees – Wall Street Journal

A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK. - New York Times

Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

And how are you mad?

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All of us are crazy in very particular ways. We’re distinctively neurotic, unbalanced and immature, but don’t know quite the details because no one ever encourages us too hard to find them out. An urgent, primary task of any lover is therefore to get a handle on the specific ways in which they are mad. They have to get up to speed on their individual neuroses. They have to grasp where these have come from, what they make them do – and most importantly, what sort of people either provoke or assuage them. A good partnership is not so much one between two healthy people (there aren’t many of these on the planet), it’s one between two demented people who have had the skill or luck to find a non-threatening conscious accommodation between their relative insanities.

The very idea that we might not be too difficult as people should set off alarm bells in any prospective partner. The question is just where the problems will lie: perhaps we have a latent tendency to get furious when someone disagrees with us, or we can only relax when we are working, or we’re a bit tricky around intimacy after sex, or we’ve never been so good at explaining what’s going on when we’re worried. It’s these sort of issues that – over decades – create catastrophes and that we therefore need to know about way ahead of time, in order to look out for people who are optimally designed to withstand them. A standard question on any early dinner date should be quite simply: ‘And how are you mad?’ 

Book of Life

AI Definitions: Test-time training (TTT)

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Test-time training (TTT) – Instead of being given truthful data to get an LLM model started in the right direction, TTTs learn by performing a task with the data. An alternative to transformers (which have high energy demands), TTTs only process more data faster, they can do so without consuming nearly as much computing power. Instead of growing as it processes data, like a transformer, it encodes the data into representations called weights. No matter how much data it processes, a TTT model won’t grow and become unwieldy.

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26 Recent Articles about the Dangers of AI

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Judge Horrified as Lawyers Submit Evidence in Court That Was Faked With AI - Futurism

Ontario man alleges ChatGPT drove him to psychosis, leading him to the delusion that he could save the world. – CTV

How would-be authors were fooled by AI in suspected global publishing scam - The Guardian

Report finds some AI-enabled toys shared inappropriate content or collected data – NPR

AI-designed viruses raise fears over creating life. - The Washington Post

An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse? - New York Times 

Is AI dulling our minds? Experts weigh in on whether tech poses threat to critical thinking, pointing to cautionary tales in use of other cognitive labor tools – Harvard

AI is reinventing crime and cops aren't ready – Axios  

AI’s infinite memory could endanger how we think, grow, and imagine - Amy Chivavibul 

Chinese hackers used Anthropic's AI agent to automate spying – Axios  

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’ - New York Times 

It’s Easier to Cheat When You Can Blame AI – Wall Street Journal

A.I. is making death threats more realistic, enabling online harassers to generate images showing their victims in imagined violent situations. – New York Times 

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun – The Guardian

Woman sent husband AI photos of intruder as a prank. He called 911. – Washington Post  

As tech companies build A.I. data centers worldwide, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages. – New York Times

The Fight Over Whose AI Monster Is Scariest - Wall Street Journal 

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder – The Guardian 

ChatGPT Is a Fictional Character What makes OpenAI’s chatbot so dangerous? It’s a character without an author. – The Atlantic  

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World - New York Times

How AI-powered hackers are stealing billions – The Economist

ChatGPT’s new parental controls failed my test in minutes - The Washington Post  

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as It Goads Spouses Into Divorce – Futurism  

AI can design toxic proteins. They’re escaping through biosecurity cracks. - The Washington Post

When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us  - New Yorker

A stunning scientific accomplishment: Computers can now design new viruses that can then be created in the lab - The Washington Post

AI Definitions: AI translator

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AI translator (trust director) – People who understand AI well enough to explain its mechanics to others in the business, particularly to leaders and managers, so that they can make effective decisions. These workers will not only explain what the AI output means (especially when it is technical) but also how trustworthy the information and conclusions are. This role may fall under that of a compliance officer, helping organizations understand contracts and reports written by AI.

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Seeking the Best is a Trap

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We have this sense that there is an objective best, and in virtually no area of life is that true. It’s not even that, “Well, there’s the best for me, and then there’s the best for you.” It isn’t even clear that there is a best for me. There’s a whole set of things that are probably more or less equivalent.

If you have this mindset that says, “I have to get the best,” it’s so hard to figure out what that is that you end up looking in panic around you at what other people are choosing as a way to help you figure out what is the best. I think it’s partly because they are struggling to define the best, and they can’t do it on their own, so they’re madly checking out other people’s decisions as a way of figuring out what really is the best. It’s extremely destructive.  

Barry Schwartz quoted in Vox

23 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Students

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Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? – Nature

Professors, students divided over AI technology in classrooms – EdSource  

What Is Gen Z Supposed to Do When AI Takes Entry-Level Jobs? - New York Magazine

Yonsei University plans public hearing amid AI-linked cheating scandal - The Korea Times

College students are panicking about AI. Here’s why they shouldn’t – Fast Company

Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize. – New York Times

AI Is Teaching the Next Generation of M.B.A.s the Classic Case Study – Wall Street Journal  

University wrongly accuses students of using artificial intelligence to cheat - ABC News (Australia)

More college students are using AI for class. Their professors aren't far behind – NPR

This school district asked students to draft its AI policy – Washington Post

AI tutors coming to California Community Colleges - Axios 

AI safety tool sparks student backlash after flagging art as porn, deleting emails - Washington Post

AI Is Making the College Experience Lonelier – Chronicle of Higher Ed

How to ask sharper questions about AI in your kid's classroom -  Axios 

AI gives students more reasons to not read books. It’s hurting their literacy – Fast Company

10 Ways AI Is Ruining Your Students’ Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

The Rapid Rise of AI in the Classroom – Plagiarism Today

College students are caught between 'AI gets you in trouble' and 'AI is the future' – Fast Company  

My Students Use AI. So What? – The Atlantic

These Students Are Using AI to Visualize Their Reading Comprehension – Education Week

AI Is Changing What High School STEM Students Study – Wired

Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out – Ars Technica

Can AI keep students motivated, or does it do the opposite? – The Conversation

3000 AI Podcast Episodes a Week

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"Inception Point AI, a startup with just eight employees is cranking out 3,000 episodes a week of AI podcasts covering everything from localized weather reports and pollen trackers to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and its cultural impact, to a biography series on Anna Wintour. It’s podcasting network Quiet Please has generated 12 million lifetime episode downloads and amassed 400.000 subscribers — so, yes, people are really listening to AI podcasts." -The Wrap 

AI Definitions: AI Consultants

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AI consultants – This job involves helping businesses adopt and implement AI by offering a strategic roadmap, technical expertise, and project leadership. The AI consultant must facilitate communication between a company’s departments to marry technical knowledge with business needs. After the deployment of AI, it is their job to help set up ways to monitor the outcomes. Besides possessing a robust AI education, the AI consultant will have to stay on top of trends and changes in the industry.

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When Children Ask “Why?”

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Children not only need to hear our conclusions, but they also need to know the thought process that got us to those conclusions. They need context. Offering only orders and rules is not teaching.

It's hard work to articulate the why. Some parents hesitate out of fear. Perhaps they will discover our secret weaknesses or find flaws in our reasoning. Rather than hiding our imperfections, if we let them know we are fallible as they are, we share with them a common bond and an authentic honesty. Rather than just opening their heads and pouring in our truths, we can help them make the marvelous discovery that they have something to contribute to our lives as well. We are fellow strugglers, learning how to live right in a confusing and challenging world.

Stephen Goforth

An AI illusion of Safety

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A.I. suggestions “work covertly, sometimes very powerfully, to change not only what you write but what you think.” The result, over time, might be a shift in what “people think is normal, desirable, and appropriate.”  We often hear A.I. outputs described as “generic” or “bland,” but averageness is not necessarily anodyne. Vauhini Vara, a novelist and a journalist whose recent book “Searches” focusses in part on A.I.’s impact on human communication and selfhood, told me that the mediocrity of A.I. texts “gives them an illusion of safety and being harmless.” - Kyle Chayka writing in The New Yorker

The Red Marks

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A news story I wrote for a graduate class was returned to me covered in red marks. I had a choice of one of two reactions: I could have said to myself, "Well, I can't do this." I could have thrown up my hands, given up, and moved on to something else. The assumption being that either I could write well or I couldn't write well, and once I put my talents on display, we would know which one was true.

But there is another way to react: I could decide to adjust, change my strategy, and learn from the professor's feedback. This attitude assumes that learning is not about fixed intelligence, but rather a matter of persistence. This pathway requires the student to humble themselves, ask questions, and struggle.

This process is especially difficult to accept if your ego is riding on whether you can perform new tasks effortlessly from the start. The alternative is to see yourself as a person of value and worth, regardless of performance. Of course, if God declares you to be of value simply because you are you, who are you to argue?

Stephen Goforth

22 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

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What Is Gen Z Supposed to Do When AI Takes Entry-Level Jobs? - New York Magazine  

AI Won’t Replace You — But Your Predictability Will. Here’s How to Stay Irreplaceable. - Entrepreneur

The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You’re Fired – Wall Street Journal

AI Broke Interviews – Yusuf Aytas

OpenAI looks to replace the drudgery of junior bankers’ workload - Bloomberg

Miran says impact of AI on labor ‘very difficult’ to predict - Semafor

Here’s what will really affect jobs in the age of AI – Washington Post

Recruiters Use A.I. to Scan Résumés. Applicants Are Trying to Trick It. – New York Times

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity – Harvard Business Review  

Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow. (podcast) – New York Times 

AI is taking on live translations. But jobs and meaning are getting lost. - Washington Post

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI – Blood in the Machine

AI is causing anxiety about the future of the workforce. But are there AI-proof jobs? – NPR

AI is supercharging Gen Z workers — if they can land a job - Washington Post 

AI job anxiety: It's real, and coming at the worst time – Axios

A new sign that AI is competing with college grads – The Atlantic

5 ways job seekers can improve their AI literacy - Washington Post 

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting – The Atlantic  

Bosses are seeking ‘AI literate’ job candidates. What does that mean? - Washington Post 

AI-generated ‘workslop’ is here. It’s killing teamwork and causing a multimillion dollar productivity problem, researchers say – CNBC

Automation comes for tech jobs in the world capital of AI - Washington Post

Laid Off to Launch: A Toolkit for Journalists - News Revenue Hub

25 Recent Articles about AI & Journalism

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Will AI Replace Journalists Or Test Their Integrity? What MIT Researcher Said - NDTV

Inside Reuters’ agentic AI video experiment – Digiday

A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool? – New York Times

X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers – Columbia Journalism Review

Trust Networks as Antidote to AI Slop - Pawel Brodzinski

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory – BBC

‘Existential crisis’: how Google’s shift to AI has upended the online news model – The Guardian

New ChatGPT writing guidelines at Axel Springer-owned Business Insider - Status

How AI will upend the news – Semafor

Can the news industry stop AI theft? It might be a long shot. – Washington Post

Wired and Business Insider remove ‘AI-written’ freelance articles – Press Gazette 

I Tested How Well AI Tools Work for Journalism - Columbia Journalism Review

What's behind the TikTok accounts using AI-generated versions of real Latino journalists? – NBC News  

The first copyright challenge by a major Japanese news publisher against an AI company. - Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Inside the quiet takeover of local journalism by AI - Fast Company

Newsrooms tap AI experts - Axios

What is AI reading? Takeaways from a report on AI brand visibility – MuckRack 

Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Parkland Shooting Victim Recreated as AI for Jim Acosta Interview. – The Guardian

If AI Won't Follow the Rules, Should the Media Even Try? – Fast Company  

AI presents challenges to journalism — but also opportunities - The Harvard Gazette  

Most journalists use AI; few newsrooms have policies – Editor & Publisher

AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs – Harvard’s Nieman Lab

Prompting tips for journalists using AI image generators – JournalismUK

Major Study Finds Many Mistakes in AI-Generated News Summaries – TV Tech