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  • Substack's CEO on the platform’s new AI detector
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    Substack CEO Chris Best said the platform’s new feature is intended to promote transparency between creators and their audience. But some are concerned about the tool’s accuracy.

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  • Gig workers train humanoids on household chores
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    Plus, SpaceX seems to be spending billions on scaling up launches, and MySpace’s owners flirt with the relaunch of the OG social network.

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  • AI chatbots have linguistic slips when they go off-script
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    Because the advanced chatbots are trained on global data, it may choose to spew a word relating to a conversation in a different language. This could mean the large language model decided to cue up the next relevant token erroneously, says Janelle Shane, who writes the AI Weirdness blog.

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  • AI-driven law could be an answer to accessible legal help
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    Advances in the technology could soon enable "personalized" legal help that adapts explanations and legal guidance to individuals, according to Benjamin Alarie, author of the new book "Superjustice: Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence."

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  • China’s soft power play in the global AI arms race
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    Over the past couple of months, China’s influence over the global AI industry has grown. Adam Segal at the Council of Foreign Relations says much of that growth is thanks to China’s adoption of the open-weighted model.

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  • Opening the curtain of AI business integration
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    Indeed, with the help of YouGov, recently released a report on the state of AI adoption and integration among U.S. businesses.

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  • Meta and Microsoft report different AI earnings
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    Plus, AI workers urge the U.S. government to create guardrails for the technology, and Peacock and YouTube announce a streaming partnership. Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino on this week’s “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.”

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  • Centering humans in AI education might be key to innovation and research
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    Shri Narayanan, professor of engineering, psychology, and linguistics at the University of Southern California, teaches his students to privilege humans when using AI for their research.

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  • The Tommy Trojan statue at the University of Southern California.
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    Gaurav Sukhatme, director of USC's Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence and interim dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, hopes his and other faculties' expertise in AI can help roll out a campuswide initiative where all students learn alongside the technology's capabilities.

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