Week 6 of 2024- W062024
Viva la pura vida
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“Talk less, do more” -Molly McCann
News
AIML
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
On holding back the strange AI tide
Meta to add ‘AI generated’ label to images created with OpenAI, Midjourney and other tools
OpenAI is adding new watermarks to DALL-E 3
Beyond Self-Attention: How a Small Language Model Predicts the Next Token
Neal Stephenson’s Most Stunning Prediction
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs
Apple Vision Pro Turned the Real World Into a ‘Black Mirror’ Episode Overnight
Efficient Mixtures of Experts with Block-Sparse Matrices: MegaBlocks
AI will not be mass destroyer of jobs
Painting
(Woodblock print; ink and color on paper)
Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, by Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32, The Met
Thank you CAH for getting me back into Fibonacci and Golden Ratio again.
The Golden Ratio Revealed in 7 Masterpieces
Finding the Fibonacci Sequence in a Hurricane
Crypto
Anxiety, Mood Swings and Sleepless Nights: Life Near a Bitcoin Mine
Cyber
How a Group of Israel-Linked Hackers Has Pushed the Limits of Cyberwar
Markets
25 Largest Banks in the US by Total Deposits
Why Are Companies Sitting on Cash Right Now?
23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0
SEC Increases Oversight for Hedge Funds, High-Speed Traders
We’ve Already Seen Category 6 Hurricanes—Now Scientists Want to Make It Official
Adam Neumann seeks to buy WeWork back five years after his ousting as CEO
Misc
Demystifying GPU Compute Architectures
The Relativistic Spaceship Page
Could a Rogue Billionaire Make a Nuclear Weapon?
The man who owes Nintendo $14m
Will Satellite Megaconstellations Weaken Earth’s Magnetic Field?
So, you want to buy a sports team? Here’s how
The $1 Billion Art Collection That’s Tearing a Family Apart h/t CAH
What’s Behind This $10 Chicken Over Rice? An $18,000 Permit.
The Most Common Job in Every US State
Hazy Magic Mushroom Laws Create ‘Shroom Boom’ in Canadian Cities
Papers
Research Papers in January 2024
TravelPlanner: A Benchmark for Real-World Planning with Language Agents
TravelPlanner introduced as a benchmark for AI in travel planning.
Evaluates AI on decision-making, tool use, and reasoning in complex scenarios.
Utilizes a sandbox with over four million records across 1,225 scenarios.
Finds language models, including GPT-4, struggle with multi-constraint planning tasks.
Only a 0.6% success rate achieved by current AI agents.
Highlights AI challenges in meeting task requirements and managing multiple constraints.
Indicates a significant gap in AI capabilities for real-world planning applications.
Book
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Amanda Montell