Five Things AI: Agentic AI, Alexa, Health Grok, EU AI Act Compliance, Carbon Footprint
Another truly fascinating week in AI. Read on.
Hello and welcome back to Five Things AI!
This week I did some research on investments in AI and it was really amazing what I found. In the last 6 weeks alone so many investments were made in Agentic AI. In absolute numbers, investments in LLM startups are still outweighing all other investments in the AI space, but Agentic AI is definitely taking off and starting to reshape the way we think about and use AI.
Also, I got to play around with some new AI apps that have not yet been released and it is so fascinating to see what’s possible right now. I like it when repetitive tasks can be handled by an AI and we can focus on interpreting and working with the data.
There are truly fascinating times in AI ahead!
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Before you unleash the AI Agents, read these five articles!
Agentic AI is the top strategic technology trend for 2025
Nobody talks about prompts or LLM anymore, Agentic AI is all the rage now. Let’s see how this will change the way organizsations will work in the future.
Alexa’s New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab
We have two Alexa devices in our household and every once in a while I try to ask it more difficult things like “what’s the weather like?”. I find it odd that Amazon is so behind on the AI capabilities of Alexa, especially since they had such a head start in deploying personal assistant devices.
Elon Musk urges users to submit X-ray, PET and MR images to xAI chatbot Grok
While there is so much to be gained when AI is being used in the health sector, I remain extremely reluctant to upload anything even remotely personal to an LLM owned by Elon Musk. Would you do that?
LatticeFlow’s LLM framework takes a first stab at benchmarking Big AI’s compliance with EU AI Act
“Given no one yet knows exactly what will be required to comply with the EU AI Act LatticeFlow’s framework is necessarily a work in progress. It is also only one interpretation of how the law’s requirements could be translated into technical outputs that can be benchmarked and compared. But it’s an interesting start on what will need to be an ongoing effort to probe powerful automation technologies and try to steer their developers towards safer utility.”
Your AI-Powered iPhone Comes With a Questionable Carbon Footprint
I just had a conversation with our oldest daughter about the energy consumption of AI and she was really concerned about it, basically because it is so hard to measure for us consumers what will happen when we use AI.
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That’s it for Five Things AI this week! 🤖
— Nico