Rami's Readings #2

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #2 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, videos, Twitter threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering technology, business, fashion, travel and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.

🤖 AI Reads

AI can’t hold patents to U.S. inventions (for now)

Notes: I highly recommend this one.

Top AI conference bans use of ChatGPT and AI language tools to write academic papers

Notes: This news follows StackOverflow, NYC Department of Education and other organizations banning the usage of GPT models due to unclear copyright, regulatory and model hallucination concerns.

ChatGPT Will Change Many Things—But It Won’t Change Everything

Notes: There is a lot of hype around GPT at the moment, here are things that will not change from the talented Abhishek Gupta of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute.

Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers

Notes: Google is not standing still and released a new paper describing a text-to-image generation technique that professes to be more efficient than DALL-E 2. Arxiv.

It’s Time to Pay Attention to A.I. (ChatGPT and Beyond)

Notes: Subscriber recommendation

🛡️CyberSecurity Reads

Windows 7 and Windows 8 will stop getting critical security updates in one week

More than 200 million Twitter users’ email addresses leaked by hackers

WhatsApp Launches Tool to Fight Internet Censorship

Notes: Also, consider reading about Domain Fronting.

🎨 Culture Reads

Sniffing Out the History of Modern Shanghai

Notes: Now, I want historical olfactory tours of other Global cities. I nominate Beirut and Paris next.