Week 45 of 2023- W452023
All the open browser tabs I get to... while Unit ER45 powers up
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“Strange things happened near the boundaries.” -James Gleick, from Chaos
“People don’t see what they aren’t looking for.” -Sam Bankman Fried, from Going Infinite
News
This is a treasure hunt.
AIML
Bill Gates- AI is about to completely change how you use computers
Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event
Elon Musk Announces Grok, a ‘Rebellious’ AI With Few Guardrails
OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets
Benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo - A Cautionary Tale
Tech Giants Jockey For Position At Dawn Of AI Age
OpenAI promises to defend business customers against copyright claims
Whisper vs Distil-Whisper: Speed Comparison
AI’s challenge of understanding the world
Hugging Face has a two-person team developing ChatGPT-like AI models
Gartner Places Generative AI on the Peak of Inflated Expectations on the 2023 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies (from August)
Crypto
Smoked Fish, Shaggy Hair and Tears
Cyber
OpenAI Suggests Cyber-Attackers Behind Persistent ChatGPT Outage
Ransomware attack on ICBC disrupts US Treasury market
Markets
Charlie Munger Will Take Your Questions Now
A $1.8 billion earthquake just hit the real estate industry
People Are Worrying About the Wrong Downtowns
A very long-term chart of U.S. stock prices usually going up
The $2 Million Coal Mine That Might Hold a $37 Billion Treasure
Warring Billionaires, a Rogue Trader, a Divorce: One Hedge Fund’s Tale of Woe
The US Housing Market Has Become an Impossible Mess
Big hedge funds pay ‘silly’ money, says founder of Europe’s largest manager
Misc
Understanding Consciousness Goes Beyond Exploring Brain Chemistry
The fight over return-to-office is getting dirty
How to Spot Corporate Bullsh*t
The most famous local sandwich from every state
Inside the weird and delightful origins of the jungle gym, which just turned 100
EuclideanSpace - Mathematics and Computing
Papers
Book
The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby
Lyrics
Ship to Wreck, Florence Welch