Robot Riots, Murderous Chatbots & Carnivore Babies
Curated Commons // Edition 176
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Itās an AI world.
Teachers worry about plagiarism, while students see ChatGPT as āa calculator for words.ā
AI jobs are commanding big starting pay ($)
Six-figure starting salaries are now common in AI roles. AI is not eviscerating all jobs. Yet.
AI startups struggle with high costs ($)
AI is getting powerful, but not cheap. Yet.
āI feel like Iām going crazyā ($)
AI chatbots can take users in a spiral. Reality is a blur. Watch out for your loved ones!
ChatGPT allegedly linked to murder-suicide ($)
A chatbot and a vulnerable individual are not a great combo. Sad story coming out.
The AI boom is squeezing the economy
Capital flows disproportionately into AI over other sectors. What does this mean for long-term imbalance?
KPMGās giant prompt-based tax agent
Then: lines of code. Now: Pages of prompts. KPMG apparently created an agentic chatbot with a 100-page prompt
Higher electricity bills? Is AI to blame?
How long before we start blaming higher electricity bills on AI Data centers? What are the second-order impacts?
Smart demand management to fix AI energy use
Interesting read from Goldman Sachs that proposes AI-driven grid balancing.
Thereās always a market. Now, for AI degrees
Thereās a world beyond AI. Still.
China leads in clean energy patents
Meet China, the new clean energy innovator.
The coming robot home invasion ($)
Domestic robots are coming. And with them, a whole host of privacy and security concerns. But yes, thereās a market!
Inside the push to raise āgeniusā children ($)
āSmarter babiesā and āhigh-IQ embryosā are apparently a thing now!
Would you pay $200K to look half your age? ($)
Facelift surgeries are getting a facelift
The growing popularity of podcasts in China ($)
Like all things China, the podcast market boomed from 700K listeners 5 years ago to 150 Mn today. Some pushing the edge of censorship guidelines.
An audio storytelling boom in India
We love drama. Even if it is microdrama!
Robots race, crash, and play football
Humanoid robot games are a thing now. How soon are we going to see live streaming bidding wars?
ānuff said!
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