These Firms Have a Plan to Kill Apps
Julian Chokkattu | Wired
“Everybody desires to kill the app. There’s a wave of corporations constructing so-called app-less telephones and devices, leveraging synthetic intelligence developments to create smarter digital assistants that may deal with every kind of duties by way of one portal, bypassing the necessity for particular apps for a selected perform. We could be witnessing the early phases of the primary main smartphone evolution for the reason that introduction of the iPhone—or an AI-hype-fueled gimmick.”

Anthropic Units a New Gold Customary: Your Transfer, OpenAI
Maxwell Zeff | Gizmodo
“Claude 3 most notably outperforms ChatGPT and Gemini in coding, one in every of AI’s hottest early use circumstances. Claude Opus scores an 85% success price in zero-shot coding, in comparison with GPT-4’s 67% and Gemini’s 74%. Claude additionally outperforms the competitors in the case of reasoning, math problem-solving, and primary data (MMLU). Nevertheless, [Claude] Sonnet and [Claude] Haiku, that are cheaper and quicker, are aggressive with OpenAI and Google’s most superior fashions as properly.”

Why Most AI Benchmarks Inform Us So Little
Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch
“On Tuesday, startup Anthropic launched a household of generative AI fashions that it claims obtain best-in-class efficiency. …However what metrics are they speaking about? When a vendor says a mannequin achieves state-of-the-art efficiency or high quality, what’s that imply, precisely? Maybe extra to the purpose: Will a mannequin that technically ‘performs’ higher than another mannequin truly really feel improved in a tangible approach? On that final query, unlikely.”

FUTURE OF WORK

AI Immediate Engineering Is Lifeless
Dina Genkina | IEEE Spectrum
“‘Each enterprise is attempting to make use of it for just about each use case that they will think about,’ [Austin] Henley says. To take action, they’ve enlisted the assistance of immediate engineers professionally. Nevertheless, new analysis means that immediate engineering is greatest completed by the mannequin itself, and never by a human engineer. This has forged doubt on immediate engineering’s future—and elevated suspicions {that a} honest portion of prompt-engineering jobs could also be a passing fad, not less than as the sector is at the moment imagined.”

D-Wave Says Its Quantum Computer systems Can Clear up In any other case Inconceivable Duties
Matthew Sparkes | New Scientist
“Quantum computing agency D-Wave says its machines are the primary to attain ‘computational supremacy’ by fixing a virtually helpful drawback that may in any other case take thousands and thousands of years on an abnormal supercomputer. …Nevertheless, exterior observers are extra cautious.”

California Provides Waymo the Inexperienced Mild to Develop Robotaxi Operations
Wes Davis | The Verge
“Waymo is now allowed to function its self-driving robotaxis on highways in elements of Los Angeles and within the Bay Space following a California regulator’s approval of its enlargement plans on Friday. This implies the corporate’s automobiles will now be allowed to drive at as much as 65mph on native roads and highways in accepted areas.”

Voyager 1, First Craft in Interstellar Area, Could Have Gone Darkish
Orlando Mayorquin | The New York Instances
“Voyager 1 found lively volcanoes, moons and planetary rings, proving alongside the way in which that Earth and all of humanity could possibly be squished right into a single pixel in {a photograph}, a ‘pale blue dot,’ because the astronomer Carl Sagan referred to as it. It stretched a four-year mission into the current day, embarking on the deepest journey ever into area. Now, it might have bid its closing farewell to that faraway dot.”

Pulling Gold Out of E-Waste Instantly Turns into Tremendous-Worthwhile
Paul McClure | New Atlas
“A brand new methodology for recovering high-purity gold from discarded electronics is paying again $50 for each greenback spent, in keeping with researchers—who discovered the important thing gold-filtering substance in cheesemaking, of all locations. …’The actual fact I like probably the most is that we’re utilizing a meals business byproduct to acquire gold from digital waste,’ stated Raffaele Mezzenga, the research’s corresponding writer. ‘You’ll be able to’t get extra sustainable than that!’”

5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for Extra Surveillance
Lauren Goode and Tom Simonite | Wired
“San Francisco made historical past in 2019 when its Board of Supervisors voted to ban metropolis businesses together with the police division from utilizing face recognition. About two dozen different US cities have since adopted swimsuit. However on Tuesday, San Francisco voters appeared to show in opposition to the concept of limiting police know-how, backing a poll proposition that may make it simpler for metropolis police to deploy drones and different surveillance instruments.”

DIGITAL MEDIA

Researchers Examined Main AI Fashions for Copyright Infringement Utilizing Standard Books, and GPT-4 Carried out Worst
Hayden Subject | CNBC
“The 4 fashions it examined have been OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude 2, Meta’s Llama 2 and Mistral AI’s Mixtral. ‘We just about discovered copyrighted content material throughout the board, throughout all fashions that we evaluated, whether or not it’s open supply or closed supply,’ Rebecca Qian, Patronus AI’s cofounder and CTO, who beforehand labored on accountable AI analysis at Meta, advised CNBC in an interview.”

SpaceX Simply Confirmed Us What Each Day Might Be Like in Spaceflight
Stephen Clark | Ars Technica
“Between Sunday evening and Monday evening, SpaceX groups in Texas, Florida, and California supervised three Falcon 9 rocket launches and accomplished a full costume rehearsal forward of the subsequent flight of the corporate’s big Starship launch car. This was a exceptional sequence of occasions, even for SpaceX, which has launched a mission at a median price of as soon as each three days for the reason that begin of the yr. We’ve reported on this earlier than, but it surely’s value reinforcing that no launch supplier, industrial or authorities, has ever operated at this cadence.”

AI Dropping Its Grip on Quick Meals Drive-Via Lanes
Angela L. Pagán | The Takeout
“Presto’s know-how does use AI voice recognition to take down orders within the drive-thru lane, however a good portion of the method nonetheless requires an precise worker’s involvement as properly. The bot takes down the order from the shopper, however it’s nonetheless the duty of the workers to enter the order and guarantee its accuracy. The voice assistant know-how has gone by way of a number of iterations, however even its most superior model remains to be solely finishing 30% of orders with out the assistance of a human being.”

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