Artificial Intelligence

[Buck_Mulligan]

If this catches on with other countries, as it likely will, certain categories of AI (news) will become like spam.

https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/moscow-based-global-news-network-infected-western-artificial-intelligence-russian-propaganda/

[Mindy]

[Psy-Fi]

Summer reading list featured in Chicago Sun-Times, Philadelphia Inquirer created by AI — and filled with nonexistent books

[Mindy]

[Buck_Mulligan]

https://x.com/BenGeskin/status/1925579528933372198

[Mindy]

[Mindy]

CNBC
May 26, 2025 

CNBC Marathon explores how different big tech companies are fighting for AI market dominance.

A little-known AI lab out of China has ignited panic throughout Silicon Valley after releasing AI models that can outperform America's best despite being built more cheaply and with less-powerful chips. DeepSeek, as the lab is called, unveiled a free, open-source large-language model in late December that it says took only two months and less than $6 million to build. The new developments have raised alarms on whether America's global lead in artificial intelligence is shrinking and called into question big tech's massive spend on building AI models and data centers. In a set of third-party benchmark tests, DeepSeek's model outperformed Meta's Llama 3.1, OpenAI's GPT-4o and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 in accuracy ranging from complex problem-solving to math and coding. CNBC's Deirdre Bosa has the story. This video also includes Bosa's full interview with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas.

Humanoid robots are catching the attention, and billions of investment dollars, from big tech companies like Amazon, Google, Nvidia and Microsoft. Elon Musk is betting the future of Tesla on these machines, predicting its robot, Optimus, could propel it to a $25 trillion market cap. Powered by artificial intelligence, these bots have seen quantum leaps in what they're capable of in just the past few years. CNBC's Kate Rooney speaks with Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Sanctuary AI and others to explore the rise of these AI-driven humanoids, if they're a cure-all for our global workforce problems, or if this is yet another tech bubble.

Microsoft, Google and Amazon, along with other tech companies, have been getting creative in how they're poaching talent from top artificial intelligence startups. Earlier this month, Google inked an unusual deal with Character.ai to hire away its prominent founder, Noam Shazeer, along with more than one-fifth of its workforce while also licensing its technology. It looked like an acquisition, but the deal was structured so that it wasn't. Google wasn't the first to take this approach. In March, Microsoft signed a deal with Inflection that allowed Microsoft to use Inflection's models and to hire most of the startup's staff. Amazon followed in June with a faux acquisition of Adept where it hired top talent from the AI startup and licensed its technology. It's a playbook that skirts regulators and their crackdown on Big Tech dominance, provides an exit for AI startups struggling to make money, and allows megacaps to pick up the talent needed in the AI arms race. But while tech giants might think they're outsmarting antitrust enforcers, they could be playing with fire. CNBC's Deirdre Bosa has the story.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:17 How China's New AI Model DeepSeek Is Threatening U.S. Dominance (Published Jan 2025)
41:40 Why Nvidia, Tesla, Amazon And More Are Betting Big On AI-Powered Humanoid Robots (Published August 2024)
58:48 How Google, Microsoft And Amazon Are Raiding AI Startups For Talent (Published July 2024)

[Psy-Fi]

Lost in the Hype: AI Will Never Become Conscious | Sir Roger Penrose (Nobel)

[Trollheart]

Has anyone seen the latest attempt to replace us? Unless I'm reading this wrong, the AI writes the book and you edit it? How, then, is that my book? If that's what's happening, it can shove itself up whatever input port it chooses. The day I need fucking AI to write my material for me is the day I forget about being a writer. What do you mean, I never was a writer??

[SGR]

Has anyone seen the latest attempt to replace us? Unless I'm reading this wrong, the AI writes the book and you edit it? How, then, is that my book? If that's what's happening, it can shove itself up whatever input port it chooses. The day I need fucking AI to write my material for me is the day I forget about being a writer. What do you mean, I never was a writer??

Just think of how many more journals you could write though...

More seriously, much of this AI stuff is causing serious problems with teachers and schooling and I'm not sure that there's any clear way to avoid it at this point. I'm sure there are numerous rules that you can't use AI, but I think there's somewhat of a realization that the students are going to use it, and there's not a whole lot that the teachers can really do to stop it. Maybe teachers are crafty enough to us an 'AI detection' tool, but there's certainly ways around that - and there's a whole lot of shortcuts students can take with AI, without necessarily having the AI write the whole school report for them.

[Mindy]

Center for Strategic & International Studies
Jun 4, 2025

The AI Policy Podcast

In this episode, we discuss House Republicans' proposed moratorium on state and local AI laws (00:57), break down AI-related appropriations across the executive branch (18:54), and unpack the safety issues and safeguards of Anthropic's newest model, Claude Opus 4 (26:51).

Correction: In this episode, a quote was incorrectly attributed directly to Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.). The statement—"Should the provision be stripped from the Senate reconciliation bill, some Republicans are eyeing separate legislation."—was reported by The Hill as a paraphrase of Rep. Lee's comments.