Sweeping changes in AI at Google
And happily off topic, can transistors be made from wood?
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 single most interesting piece we read all week, maybe all month. This leaked internal memo from Google is so packed with insight, covering everything from technical advances to open source dominance to speculative futurecasting. A tremendous read. Learn more at SemiAnalysis >
2/ And it came right before it was revealed Google announced to shut down it’s public AI research sharing. Moving in the wrong direction? Learn more at The Washington Post>
3/ [Watch] Much of the fearful news this week came after AI pioneer, Geoffrey Hinton, resigned from his post at Google. While he considers much of what Google’s doing to be favorable, his worries about AI run deeper. What happens when we apply agent-chaining to something immoral? Learn more at MIT Technology Review >
4/ AI in our hearing aids? That actually sounds useful! How close are we to the Universal Translator? Learn more at WIRED >
5/ Having a relationship with a chatbot is uncomfortable territory, but what actually happened when Replika changed their policies? This one from a few months ago popped back up in a strange way. Scandalous behavior… Learn more at GioCities >
6/ This week, the US government hosted tech CEOs to talk about, what else…Artificial Intelligence. Regulation – in some form – is coming to AI. What might it look like? Learn more at The New York Times >
7/ Okay, this is the coolest thing we read all week. What if our computers can be made out of wood? Learn more at IEEE Spectrum >
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