Five Things AI: AGI, AI Index Report, Teens, AlphaFold3, Military Robodogs
I just spent two days talking about AI - and now you can read five articles about it.
Hi and welcome back to Five Things AI! My name is Nico Lumma and every week I like to share five interesting articles about AI with you. So instead of researching for hours on the web, just read these five articles here and you are all set. As I’m saving you a couple of hours every week, I’d really appreciate it if you could go paid and spend the equivalent of one large café latte on this newsletter.
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This week the circus was in town - the annual OMR happened and 70.000 people came to Hamburg to discuss all aspects of the digital future. Kim Kardashian was there, so was Kara Swisher, but the real big elephant in the room was AI. It seemed as if most discussions were about AI and how it is changing the digital industry. My colleague
and I were invited by Digital Bash x OMR to do a live segment where we discussed the diva-e AI Hub and how venture clienting enables large companies to work effectively with innovative startups. If you want to know more, just ping me!
Now let’s get on with Five Things AI!
Ways to think about AGI
“If we really could create something in software that was meaningfully equivalent to human intelligence, it should be obvious that this would be a very big deal. Can we make software that can reason, plan, and understand? At the very least, that would be a huge change in what we could automate, and as my grandfather and a thousand other science fiction writers have pointed out, it might mean a lot more.” - are you worried about AGI? I’m not. I think it will still take a lot of time until we could define something as AGI, but before that we will get more capable and powerful models, which will help us improve the way we work in many different ways.
AI Index Report 2024 – Artificial Intelligence Index
This report is really worth reading as it gives you a pretty good indication of where AI is headed. As a European, I think it is obvious that we need to do more development and I certainly hope that academia will push open-source LLM more. Certainly some performance numbers are really interesting and the money invested in AI last year is mindblowing.
The teens making friends with AI chatbots
I do understand that teens rather talk to a bot than to a real, oftentimes judgy human. As much as I want to believe that there could be positive outcomes, I fear that there will be more harm done than positive effects happening.
Google Unveils A.I. for Predicting Behavior of Human Molecules
“The new version of AlphaFold — AlphaFold3 — extends the technology beyond protein folding. In addition to predicting the shapes of proteins, it can predict the behavior of other microscopic biological mechanisms, including DNA, where the body stores genetic information, and RNA, which transfers information from DNA to proteins.” - the impact of AI on health research will be huge and this is just the beginning.
Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
You tell me: is this scary or will this save lives? If the good guys use these dogs, we probably don’t mind that much, but if it is the other way around, we have another problem to cope with in the near future.
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