15 News to Read This Weekend
3 min readAug 9, 2024
- OpenAI has developed a powerful tool that can detect AI-generated text with 99.9% accuracy, yet it remains unreleased. https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/ai-detection-tool-openai-refuses-release/ (~ via Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP )
- Neuralink implanted second trial patient with brain chip. https://www.reuters.com/technology/neuralink-implanted-second-trial-patient-with-brain-chip-musk-says-2024-08-04/
- The Wendy’s Company’s bringing Spanish AI ordering to drive-thrus in Florida https://www.wfla.com/bloom-tampa-bay/bloom-food/wendys-bringing-spanish-ai-ordering-to-drive-thrus-in-florida/
- Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/elon-musk-says-tesla-is-an-ai-company-now-heres-how-plausible-that-is/
- Meet Figure 02 — the world’s most advanced AI hardware https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/1820791819023909031
- ByteDance has expanded its offering of a software that can generate videos based on text prompts, Jimeng AI, now available on the Apple App Store for Chinese users, following its release on Android on July 31. https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/bytedance-joins-openais-sora-rivals-with-ai-video-app-launch-2024-08-06/
- Musk’s new lawsuit against OpenAI argues Microsoft contract is invalid if AGI is reached https://the-decoder.com/musks-new-lawsuit-against-openai-argues-microsoft-contract-is-invalid-if-agi-is-reached/
- Is improving hotel website conversion rates a top priority? (~ via Hospitality Net) https://www.hospitalitynet.org/viewpoint/125000226/126002471.html
- OpenAI co-founder Schulman leaves for Anthropic , Brockman takes extended leave https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/05/openai-co-founder-leaves-for-anthropic/
- What do people really ask chatbots? It’s a lot of sex and homework https://archive.is/fWQ8u#selection-561.0-566.0
- Can a Large Language Model Recognize Itself? https://spectrum.ieee.org/self-aware-ai
- Could two NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts be stuck at the space station until next year?https://apnews.com/article/nasa-spacex-boeing-starliner-astronauts-922b43fa8d0e1f9622022a52f8c8e2ed
- Google pulls Gemini ad from Olympics after backlash https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/2/24212078/google-gemini-olympics-ad-backlash
- There is no such thing as “total” revenue management. (~ via Hospitality Net) https://www.hospitalitynet.org/viewpoint/125000224/126002419.html
- Here below the transcript of Lex Fridman Podcast #438 with Musk and Neuralink Team. The timestamps in the transcript are clickable links that take you directly to that point in the main video:
- 0:00 — Introduction
- 0:49 — Elon Musk
- 4:06 — Telepathy
- 10:45 — Power of human mind
- 15:12 — Future of Neuralink
- 20:27 — Ayahuasca
- 29:57 — Merging with AI
- 34:44 — xAI
- 36:57 — Optimus
- 43:47 — Elon’s approach to problem-solving
- 1:01:23 — History and geopolitics
- 1:05:53 — Lessons of history
- 1:10:12 — Collapse of empires
- 1:17:55 — Time
- 1:20:37 — Aliens and curiosity
- 1:28:12 — DJ Seo
- 1:36:20 — Neural dust
- 1:43:03 — History of brain–computer interface
- 1:51:07 — Biophysics of neural interfaces
- 2:01:36 — How Neuralink works
- 2:07:26 — Lex with Neuralink implant
- 2:27:24 — Digital telepathy
- 2:38:27 — Retracted threads
- 2:44:01 — Vertical integration
- 2:50:55 — Safety
- 3:00:50 — Upgrades
- 3:09:53 — Future capabilities
- 3:39:09 — Matthew MacDougall
- 3:44:58 — Neuroscience
- 3:52:07 — Neurosurgery
- 4:03:11 — Neuralink surgery
- 4:22:20 — Brain surgery details
- 4:38:03 — Implanting Neuralink on self
- 4:53:57 — Life and death
- 5:03:17 — Consciousness
- 5:06:11 — Bliss Chapman
- 5:19:27 — Neural signal
- 5:26:19 — Latency
- 5:30:59 — Neuralink app
- 5:35:40 — Intention vs action
- 5:46:54 — Calibration
- 5:56:26 — Webgrid
- 6:19:28 — Neural decoder
- 6:40:03 — Future improvements
- 6:48:59 — Noland Arbaugh
- 6:49:08 — Becoming paralyzed
- 7:02:43 — First Neuralink human participant
- 7:06:45 — Day of surgery
- 7:24:31 — Moving mouse with brain
- 7:49:50 — Webgrid
- 7:57:52 — Retracted threads
- 8:06:16 — App improvements
- 8:13:01 — Gaming
- 8:23:59 — Future Neuralink capabilities
- 8:26:55 — Controlling Optimus robot
- 8:31:16 — God
- 8:33:21 — Hope
