Week 26 of 2024- W262024
Reality denied
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“Reality denied comes back to haunt.” -Philip K. Dick
AIML
Goldman Sachs Deploys Its First Generative AI Tool Across the Firm
The Chef Is Human. The Reviewer Isn’t.
Expanding access to Claude for government
Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4
A.I. Is Getting Better Fast. Can You Tell What’s Real Now?
NBC to use AI version of announcer Al Michaels’ voice for Olympics recaps
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Being an Underdog, AI Safety, and Economic Inequality
How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It
MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI
AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part:
Painting
Ron Francis, Australia (1954-), Skateboard (2009), Oil on canvas 110cm x 110cm
Cyber
Researchers Prove Rabbit AI Breach By Sending Email to Us as Admin
Markets
The Federal Reserve’s Little Secret
Beware When a Company Says It Is Trustworthy
US stocks: Weird, flat, and setting confusing new records
Whatever Happened to ‘the Big One’?
Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)
Warren Buffett Gives Us a Preview of His Will
What if quitting your terrible job would help the economy?
A textual representation of how different time complexities grow as the input size (n) increases:
Misc
In Search of the Rarest Book in American Literature: Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane
These Stunning Butterflies Flew 2,600 Miles Across the Atlantic Ocean Without Stopping
The physics of (airplane) flight
Books
4 books I’ve read and 5 books I want to read