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AI is a double-edged sword. While the American IRS uses AI to comb through previously unexaminable troves of data and identify tax compliance issues, China-aligned actors are using it to spread propaganda around US elections. Strange times indeed.

• AI has enabled the Internal Revenue Service to examine 75 of the largest partnerships in the US, which used to have "limited examination coverage" due to size and complexity. - IRS
  
  
• China-aligned influence actors have started using AI-generated visual memes for sophisticated propaganda in the run-up to US elections. - Microsoft 
  
  
• Apple is quietly cooking up goodies with multiple AI teams, a special unit called “Foundational Models", and plans to turn Siri into a next-gen assistant that can perform complex tasks for you. - Mashable
  
  
• Fascinating approach – Prompt2Model abandons the idea of a general-purpose LLM and uses a natural language prompt to train a special-purpose model, which can outperform GPT3.5 by an average of 20% while being ~700 times smaller. - GitHub
  
  
• AI snake eating its tail – reinforcement learning is a key technique in LLM development and a bottleneck because it requires humans, but it turns out that it can be done by AI with human-level performance. - arXiv
  
  
• Volvo, an Nvidia partner since 2019, has been building with AI for years – they just achieved a huge milestone by removing safety drivers from autonomous trucks in an active, commercial mining operation. - Volvo link 1, link 2
  
  
• The next step in the AI evolution will be Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – but the possibility of it happening by 2043 appears to be less than 1%, so it would require a lot of successful moonshots. - arXiv
  
  
• Python’s dominance in AI, among the multitude of its other uses, made it the #1 programming language in 2023 – if you want to learn Python, I highly recommend Replit’s 100 days of code. - IEEE, Replit

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