AI with soul?
Plus, how engineers should be thinking about the EU AI Act
We’re back with another edition of Machine Learnings, brought to you by the folks at Heyday.
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What we're reading.
1/ The EU AI act is our first major government regulation around how the world has to play with AI. What’s it mean for you, the engineer? Learn more at Encord >
2/ OpenAI announced internal plans for superintelligence alignment research. We’ll let you judge their plans for yourself. Learn more at OpenAI >
3/ If you’ve been watching Wimbledon highlights this week, you may have heard something slightly different – an AI announcer. And for those of you moonlighting as broadcasters…that subtitle. Brutal! Learn more at The Atlantic >
4/ Living in San Francisco has historically meant weather predictions beyond 48 hours are completely fictional. This company thinks they have an answer, and there’s a whole lot of $ behind them. Learn more at Fast Company >
5/ We’ve no shortage of high profile CEOs talking lavishly about the virtues of AI, but when processes are discussed, we perk up a bit. Here’s Eric Schmidt on how AI will transform science. Learn more at The MIT Technology Review >
6/ Major League Baseball is opening up their data vaults to AI, but how could it miss? Three lightly outlined paths inside that could derail America’s pasttime. Learn more at Bloomberg >
7/ Souls in our AIs? Incentives for assistance and progress? Writer David Brin shares some thought-provoking ideas on long-term alignment. Learn more at WIRED >
Research for this edition of Machine Learnings was enhanced by Heyday, the AI-powered memory assistant.