Curated Commons // Edition 134
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The rap I deserve
The one generated by a generative AI chatbot that went through my Twitter history! - Check yours
Correlation, causation, and something like that
More Forbes 30 under 30 list leaders are getting arrested - Read here
If there’s a camera, someone’s viewing you. Eventually.
Just another day, another example. This time Tesla employees apparently shared sensitive images among themselves from camera recordings of customers’ Teslas. How do they have access? AI and data labeling - Read here
Just a few months back it came to light that a Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet and the images ended up on Facebook! - Read here
Use LLM like search engine, end up with data leaks
Instructive illustration from South Korea where Samsung Semi is dealing with engineers who shared top-secret code to ChatGPT to try and fix the errors in it. - Read here
Generative AI is now entering popular culture
Can AI generate taste? Can an artist make it generate taste? If you make it generate something good, are you the artist? What does good mean anymore? Lots of interesting questions, like at earlier inflection points - Read here ($)
On a related note, a thoughtful read on what generative AI means for postmodern art - this author calls it a death sentence - Read here
AI is eating…fortune cookie writers
Perhaps, they should have seen it coming? - Read here ($)
AI races, robotics struggles
While development in AI has surged in recent months, robotics still struggles, and remains round the corner. Still. - Read here ($)
Watch what you search, and get as result, on AI chatbots
Can’t make this up. ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused. Confident algorithmic lies! - Read here ($)
Another case from down under - Read here
Ship now, fix later?
Is the growing interest in ChatGPT driving large tech companies like Google/Microsoft to prioritize shipping a product over getting it right, and without fully appreciating the broader impacts on society? - Read here ($)
What you study, driven by what pays you eventually
Very interesting data insights into costs of education and the outcome from a financial standpoint - Read here ($)
Choosing the right subject is crucial to boosting earning power. Negative returns are likeliest for Britons who study creative arts (less than 10% of men make a positive return), social care and agriculture (see chart 2). By far the best-earning degrees in America are in engineering, computer science and business. Negative returns seem especially likely for music and the visual arts. Using America’s available data to guess lifetime earnings by programme is a stretch. But Preston Cooper at freopp, a think-tank, ventures that more than a quarter of bachelor’s-degree programmes in America will lead to negative returns for most enrolled students.
When the Uber CEO turned a driver
More CEOs should try this - Read here ($)
A computer, made from DNA…
…figured out the prime factors of 6 and 15. What was that line about small steps… - Read here
GM thinks it should own the car interface. Why? DATA!
The company is killing support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Good luck, I guess? - Read here
American workers and their vacation habits
Apparently, less than half of all US workers use all their vacation days - Read here ($)
More interesting reads:
Is ChatGPT the future of learning? And is it cheating? - Read here
Are French workers better at protesting than American workers? - Read here
Our future is now. A Redditor is dating a chatbot trained on conversations between him and his ex - Read here
Very good interview with Geoffrey Hinton on future of AI - Read here
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