Monday Byte [2]

Monday Byte: 8 Bits of information to kick start your week

AI Generated: Robots having picnic by the Eiffel tower in the style of van Gogh

Hi there! 👋

On this edition:

1. Green light for human tests with Neuralink🚦🔗

   1. Neuralink is recruiting subjects for the first human trial of its brain-computer interface (The Verge)

      1. The first steps on the connection between the human brain and computers 🧠💻

2. UK lawmakers admit that AI is too fast to catch up for them 🥵🏳️

   1. AI developing too fast for regulators to keep up, says Oliver Dowden (The Guardian)

      1. Even though the European Union has been working on the EU AI Act, the British lawmakers urge for a global consensus asap. 📖🌍

3. You can now create additional independent profiles in Facebook 😃🥸😎

   1. Facebook now lets you create alt accounts for better privacy and organization (Tech Radar)

      1. Back in the day one had to use third party tools, now you can easily switch from one profile to the other 🤵🦸‍♂️

4. Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) vs AI Generated books 🤖📚

   1. AI-generated books force Amazon to cap e-book publications to 3 per day (Ars Technica)

      1. Was your book written by a robot? 🤨 (We all saw that coming…)

5. Cisco is entering the Data Observability business 🔎📊

   1. Cisco to Buy Splunk for $28 Billion in Giant AI-Powered Data Bet (Yahoo Finance)

      1. For decades, Cisco had been a Hardware-first company, but this move puts them in the competition with Datadog and Dynatrace on network health and cybersecurity risks monitoring via a subscription basis 💰

6. Elon Musk planning to charge you for a monthly subscription to use X 🐦

   1. X, formerly Twitter, looks set to become subscription-only (Digital trends)

      1. During a live streaming, the billionaire mentioned that this may be the only way to put a definite stop to the army of bots running in the platform 🤖

7. Mind blowing! Google Research unveil Generative Image Dynamics 🤯

   1. Generative Image Dynamics (Google Research)

      1. Now you can interact with images by clicking and dragging onto them and see them moving (try it yourself! ⬆️ ) 🪄

8. OpenAI started recruiting members for a red team - 🥷🥷🥷

   1. OpenAI Red Teaming Network (OpenAI)

      1. If ChatGPT is not powerful enough already, the company behind it started the hunt for experts in Cybersecurity, Steganography, Mis/disinformation, Political Science, Physics and much more… (Did anyone else immediately thought of Cicada 3301 in steroids?) 😱

BONUS: A 10–15-minute read that’s just too good and matched to our time that’s a MUST.

“The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov.

Heads up: DO NOT read anything about this story before digging in, as even a small spoiler can ruin it.

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