Weekly Top Picks #78

Ted Chiang: AI can't make art / Coding is the "killer app" / 1X's NEO / Google's GameNGen / Magic's LTM-2-Mini / SB-1047 is in Newsom's hands

The week in AI at a glance

• Ted Chiang: Why AI Isn’t Going to Make Art

• Coding assistance is generative AI’s killer app

• Diffusion models are real-time game engines—only for DOOM

• 1X’s new humanoid robot for the home: NEO

• Magic LTM-2-Mini: 100M token context windows

• The SB-1047 AI bill is in Governor Gavin Newsom’s hands

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