Curated Commons // Edition 157
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Robots, but for issuing a ‘fatwa’
Can’t say this was unexpected, but well, here you go. There’s now a push for clerical AI! - Read here ($)
Meet the new banks - Airlines
Crazy little stat - Consumers charge nearly 1% of American GDP on Amex’s co-branded credit cards with Delta Airlines! - Read here ($)
Microsoft going…nuclear?
In this case, it’s about nuclear energy. Looks like Microsoft wants to explore a strategy around leveraging Small Modular Reactors for data centers! - Read here
And in related nuclear news, the new face of nuclear energy in the US is…Miss America, who is a soon-to-be nuclear fuel engineer. - Read here ($)
A new entrant to the AI race - Abu Dhabi
Open AI has competition. Credible or not, time will tell. But failure won’t be due to lack of funding! - Read here ($)
Periodic PSA: Do not leave your kids alone with YouTube
Algorithmic recommendation engines optimize for engagement and now combine that with new findings that Generative AI is being used to target kids with disinformation! - Read here
On a related note, a developer recently demonstrated that it takes as little as $400 to build an AI disinformation machine - Read here
Watch out for this new flesh-eating bacteria
A new health threat from a bacteria that is more active in warmer waters - more things to thank climate change for! - Read here
People don’t want to remain accountants
Drive, in part, by concerns of the long-term impact of Generative AI on their profession. What about other professional services? - Read here ($)
We increasingly live in a zero-sum world
Fascinating new study that shows how very different groups think very similarly - Read here ($)
Convincing AI to spill secrets works!
File this in 2023 challenges. - Read here
GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisper can be coaxed to emit hardcoded credentials that these AI models captured during training
Trust…nothing
For a brief while, till it was pulled up by a media publication, Google’s top image search result for “Tank Man” was an AI-generated selfie! - Read here
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