Five Things AI: AI Future, Prompt Engineering, AI Detection, Protecting from AI, New Sorting Algorithm
Everybody is doing AI now. Read this to understand what's going on.
Everything is about AI these days and everybody talks about AI. Crypto people move into AI, teachers talk about AI, lawmakers talk about AI. Every week we see hundreds of new products, tools and libraries for AI. It feels like Web 3 is here and it is totally different from what we expected. But it has unleashed a great new wave of creativity.
While AI is clearly becoming mainstream now, still not everyone understands what is going on and why it works. Still, AI is fascinating for a lot of people, and also a bit scary.
This week the conversational AI startup Spectrm announced a $6,5 million round of funding. Why do I mention this here? Because I scouted this team in 2015 and was their first investor with my company NMA. They have essentially been doing GenerativeAI since before the term was coined and I am very happy for them that they now are a leader in this space. A lot of hard work and a dedicated team was necessary to get them to this point, but it is really exciting to see how they are now riding the wave after having been ahead of the wave for a long time.
Why AI Will Save the World
It’s no surprise to me that
is optimistic about the future and the role of AI in it. He does have some strong points about AI being able to help change things for the better. I think that a lot of people fear AI just because they don’t understand the concepts and haven’t been following the development in the last couple of decades and so for them this feels like something totally new and surprises them.AI Prompt Engineering Isn’t the Future
Shocking. At least for all the people who hoped for an overpayed gig as a prompt ninja where they spend their day in the office typing “imagine you work as a prompt ninja and you need to figure out clever ways to use prompts for ChatGPT. Now generate 100 prompts that come up with clever ways to use prompts for ChatGPT” or something like that.
Scientists claim >99 percent identification rate of ChatGPT content
This is an interesting development to watch. We will see AI generated content that we can identify by ourselves. And we will see AI generated content where we couldn’t care less (and haven’t cared about at all in the last decade, for instance weather report, finance reports, etc.). But there will be content where it matters that we know who wrote it: humans or the machine.
How Thinking Visually About A.I. Can Protect Us
It’s amazing how Stanley Kubrick has shaped our thinking about Artificial Intelligence. I’m not sure how an off-switch for a decentralized system of decentralized systems would work, but I’m curious to find out.
AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade
This is truly amazing. For everyone who as ever dabbled with coding, a sorting algorithm was always one of the first challenges one had to solve. And then it just got more complex later on until I didn’t really understand how it worked anymore. And now the machine takes a look at it and just makes it better.
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