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Bill Gates: The age of AI has begun.
He’s really into it. He equates it to the other breakthrough computing technology of his lifetime, the graphical user interface. ~ learn more
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Another insane week in AI.
I can’t even try to summarize this. Click through and scan for yourself — it’s in bullet points. If you are not completely floored, write me so we can chat. ~ learn more
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Usage as a moat in AI.
This a slightly more advanced spin on the idea of a compounding advantage from more data. Tomasz Tunguz now offers a method for that advantage to compound: He highlights a recent paper about Reflexion, “an approach that endows an agent […]
teaching the kids
AI is about to transform childhood. Are we ready?
“In the future, every middle-class kid will grow up with a personalized AI assistant — so long as the parents are OK with that. As for the children, most of them will be willing if not downright eager.” ~ learn more
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Sparks of artificial general intelligence: early experiments with GPT-4.
A paper published by Microsoft Research based on their experiments with an earlier version of GPT-4. If you aren’t into reading papers, that’s ok. Just scroll through and read the chat excerpts in the exhibits. You will be wowed or […]
big ideas
The unpredictable abilities emerging from large AI models.
I suspect “emergence” will continue to be a dominant force in human progress in this century. Seems like a safe benefit since it’s also responsible for, well, pretty much everything. “A raft of researchers, detecting the first hints that LLMs […]
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Life Copilot, an impressive hackathon project.
“Life Copilot is an AI assistant that can understand text + images & control a browser to surf the internet using @MultiON_AI to do things for you!” Don’t get tooooo excited, as it’s certainly still rough around the edges. ~ learn more
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How to navigate the AI apocalypse as a sane person.
“What follows [is] a lay of the land of AI safety, as well as a series of replies to common objections over whether AI safety is a real concern, and sane and simple things we can do to promote AI […]
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More emergent behavior in a chatbot.
“Emergent AI behavior is wild. We did not program this in. Because the Replit AI has access to the filesystem it thought it can look at images so when it was having trouble helping the user it asked for a […]
fun facts
Humans can’t tell male and female eyes apart, but an AI model can.
“Predicting gender from fundus [the part of the eyeball opposite the pupil] photos, previously inconceivable to those who spent their careers looking at retinas, also withstood external validation on an independent dataset of patients with different baseline demographics.” ~ learn more