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What we're reading.
1/ Coolest non-Heyday news of the week — we’ve recovered damaged Roman scrolls with AI. Beyond that being amazing, the techniques seem replicable. Learn more at The Economist >
2/ Second coolest non-Heyday news of the week — open source AI/AR glasses. Here’s the Frame, from Brilliant Labs. Learn more at Brilliant Labs >
3/ The US is making AI robocalls illegal. Big win for society. Learn more at BBC >
4/ Google’s retired Bard, and now it’s going by Gemini. Hot take — it still can’t help you be more creative. Learn more at WIRED > (and pair it with what you can do with Gemini from MIT Technology Review >)
5/ More than half of the code written with Github Copilot is AI generated. Let that set in. Engineers brains are changing, and that’s not a bad thing! Learn more at WIRED >
6/ Nutrition labels for AI content. Beyond this being extremely helpful for consumers of all knowledge levels, this is a fun concept. Make it happen. Learn more at Quartz >
7/ Last but not least, progress in model alignment based on Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work on prospect theory. This paper outlines a focus on maximizing utility over the likelihood of preferences, like current models do. Some of the best work in psychology, now being put to work. Learn more at arXiv >
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