• Marc Andreessen’s pro-AI “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” is unusual and contains inaccuracies, for example saying “markets prevent monopolies” at a time when Google and Amazon are fighting landmark monopoly lawsuits – there’s a great discussion about it on Hacker News. - Hacker News thread, a16z
• Savvy move from Klarna – they trained an AI with data from their acquired company, PriceRunner, to let you point your phone at clothing or electronics and get recommendations of alternatives, competing with similar services from Amazon and Google. - CNBC
• To better prepare for future pandemics, predict viral mutations, and aid vaccine development, the EVEscape framework combines deep learning AI and biophysical data to predict viral escape, and it has proven effective on viruses like SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and HIV. - Nature
• LLMs could be more useful for psychotherapy with the right method of prompting – Diagnosis of Though (DoT) is one such early method, consisting of 3 steps that provide 10% relative improvement for cognitive distortion assessment on ChatGPT. - arXiv
• It's not just politics, it's “economic warfare” – export controls are tactical chess moves in an ongoing battle for global AI dominance, the US has already imposed such controls for exporting semiconductors to China, and is considering the same move for foundational models. - Atlantic
• So far I’ve been unimpressed by generated music, but Riffusion is making me reconsider – it generates short “riffs” that sound like real music, and the underlying AI is quite special because it wasn’t trained on sounds, but on images of audio spectrograms. - Riffusion
• Reducing energy consumption needed for machine learning tasks by 100x with an energy efficient nanoelectronic device capable of real-time data processing and suitable for wearables – in a test, it correctly classified the type of heartbeat for 10,000 electrocardiogram data samples. - Northwestern
