Zachary Small / New York Times:
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby’s auction for nearly $1.1M — The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence.
A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7%-17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs (James Zou/Nature)
James Zou / Nature:
A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7%-17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs — By – James Zou 0 — James Zou is an associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters — Artificial intelligence was predicted to disrupt the 2024 election. It ended up shaking people’s faith in truth rather than changing minds.
Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI companies create their own internal benchmarks as new models approach or exceed 90% accuracy on existing public tests (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI companies create their own internal benchmarks as new models approach or exceed 90% accuracy on existing public tests — Rapidly advancing technology is surpassing current methods of evaluating and comparing large language models
San Francisco’s next mayor, Dan Lurie, a Levi’s heir with no political experience, wasn’t tech leaders’ top choice but is a moderate who aims to work with them (Newcomer)
Newcomer:
San Francisco’s next mayor, Dan Lurie, a Levi’s heir with no political experience, wasn’t tech leaders’ top choice but is a moderate who aims to work with them — San Francisco venture capitalists didn’t get all the results they’d hoped for in this week’s local elections.
Source: the US ordered TSMC to halt shipments of AI chips, of 7nm or more advanced designs, to Chinese customers starting on November 11 (Reuters)
Reuters:
Source: the US ordered TSMC to halt shipments of AI chips, of 7nm or more advanced designs, to Chinese customers starting on November 11 — The U.S. ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers that are often used …
A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé who heads the Chinese intelligence agency accused of likely steering the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks on the US (Chun Han Wong/Wall Street Journal)
Chun Han Wong / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Chen Yixin, a Xi Jinping protégé who heads the Chinese intelligence agency accused of likely steering the Salt Typhoon cyberattacks on the US — Agency accused of vast cyberattacks on U.S. has grown more powerful with trusted protégé of Chinese leader at the helm
Sources: the jump in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is far smaller than the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4; Orion may not outperform predecessors in tasks like coding (The Information)
The Information:
Sources: the jump in quality from GPT-4 to Orion is far smaller than the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4; Orion may not outperform predecessors in tasks like coding — The number of people using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products is soaring. The rate of improvement …
Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT’s launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools (Miles Kruppa/Wall Street Journal)
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Chegg lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT’s launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools — Chegg’s stock is down 99%, and students looking for homework help are defecting to ChatGPT — Most companies are starting to figure …
FTX sues Anthony Scaramucci, Crypto.com, Zuckerberg’s FWD.US, and others to recoup SBF’s “investments” as part of his “campaign of influence-buying” in 2022 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
FTX sues Anthony Scaramucci, Crypto.com, Zuckerberg’s FWD.US, and others to recoup SBF’s “investments” as part of his “campaign of influence-buying” in 2022 — – Lawsuit says $67 million was invested into Skybridge endeavors — FTX Says investments conveyed ‘little to no benefit’
