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AI is rapidly infiltrating the whole digital world, which is resulting in a lot of exciting new possibilities, but also some negative developments. The big one right now is that GenAI is being used to generate heaps of poor-quality content in different places online. On the other hand, AI has demonstrated the ability to design a CPU in 5 hours, and it will provide students of the world’s biggest computer science course with a 1:1 teacher-student experience – so it’s not all bad.

• New role just dropped and it’s AI Engineer – as capabilities of AI improve, and the AI technology stack grows in complexity, specialized engineers that can wrangle these systems to do the business’s bidding are increasingly in demand. - Latent Space
  
  
• 25 new made-for-ads websites are created each week and filled with up to 1,200 GenAI-created articles per day, often containing misinformation – this is disrupting programmatic advertising, as these websites serve ads from hundreds of major brands, causing them to waste billions of dollars in ad spend. - MIT Technology Review
  
  
• A similar situation happened on Amazon, where Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited young adult romance bestseller list was dominated by AI-generated books full of nonsense, but the company addressed the issue for the moment. - Vice
  
  
• It’s not peer reviewed yet, but an exciting new scientific paper shows a method to coerce AI into designing a CPU that is comparable in performance to a human-designed industrial-scale Intel CPU – and the design took only 5 hours. - Arxiv
  
  
• But, remember to apply healthy skepticism to exciting scientific papers, as another recent one claimed GPT-4 was good enough to ace MIT exams and get a degree – which turned out to be completely false, researchers used data without permission in it, and it was published without any approval. - The Register
  
  
• If you want to learn computer science, the world’s most popular online CS course from Harvard is getting an AI boost – professor David J. Malan hopes that this will give students almost the same experience as working 1:1 with a teacher, perhaps even better because AI can help 24/7. - The Crimson
  
  
• In clear opposition to OpenAI, Hugging Face CEO has spoken about about the importance of open-source AI development – he said that this is the way to solve key issues with AI (black-box systems, biases, misinformation, copyrights, etc.), and that the US wouldn’t have been the AI power it is without multiple open-source tools that were used to build GenAI. - VentureBeat
  
  
• Microsoft and OpenAI are being sued for $3 billion for violating America's Electronic Privacy Communications Act by ‘theft’ of data, i.e. scraping of 300 billion words from the internet to train their models – meanwhile, the companies are already in an ongoing legal battle concerning GitHub Copilot reproducing the code of millions of software developers. - The Register

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