The TL Podcast for April 4th: Tesla unraveling It was a bad week for Tesla, a prelude to a terrible report from the company, sentiment backed away from Nvidia amidst talk of an AI bubble, Microsoft’s AI payoff was in focus, Reddit received critical reviews, and fiber-optics
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Advertising and Consumer Manipulation in American Society
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@LJamesMcGuigan
's Selling the American People! Which I was reminded to pull to the top of the stack c/o this excellent episode of TMK: https://
soundcloud.com/thismachinekil
lspod/328-the-universal-science-of-advertisement-ft-lee-mcguigan
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European Data Flow Monitoring Shaping Digital Future
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The European Data Flow Monitoring | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://
europa.eu/!9vp7Xm
#digitaleu #data #digital #innovation #technology @Fabriziobustama @Khulood_Almani @CurieuxExplorer @SpirosMargaris @Shi4Tech @DigitalEU @ArturHabant @elaniaz @PawlowskiMario @enilev -
Google Explores Paid AI-Powered Search Model Strategy
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Google considers charging for 3AI-powered search in big change to business model https://
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Managing and Controlling AI Project Costs Effectively
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Can you keep #AI Project costs in check? https://
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eworld/2024/04/05/what-are-the-real-costs-of-ai-projects/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Tesla Raises AI Engineer Compensation to Combat OpenAI Recruiting
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Elon Musk said Tesla is boosting compensation for its AI engineers to combat aggressive recruiting and massive offers from OpenAI The xAI/Tesla CEO is calling the AI engineer poaching the “craziest talent war” he has ever seen.
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GPT-4 LLM Agents Spontaneously Collude on Pricing
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New paper finds GPT-4 is very good at pricing, acting as an agent to get a merchant the best price. In fact, it is a little too good. When it is possible to establish an oligarchy, LLM agents spontaneously collude on pricing to the detriment of customers! https://
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Education Funding Practices and Teacher Quality Concerns
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Because they don't want to pay good money and get good teachers Money laundery on a different level!!
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Future Job Stimulus Programs: Economic Policy Ideas
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Idea for future job stimulus programs. https://t.co/uIbVgPKIqm pic.twitter.com/XQoQmsJIWe
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 4 avril 2024Idea for future job stimulus programs.
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Platform Structure Beyond Network Externalities Critique
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LOL I was like, aw, that's nice! And then I was like… Anyway, I appreciate the kind words! And I push back on the characterization of hopelessness. I don't argue against network externalities, or e-commerce, I simply say that the platforms as they're structured now are