Five Things AI: Fuse, Board, Gemini, Liquid, Userguide
Here we go again. Five articles about AI plus a bonus. A book.
There are so many big bets on AI right now. So much money is flowing into new startups, but also Big Tech is investing billions into their AI efforts. So Google just announced Gemini and now finally has something people can take a lot more serious than Bard. Next year will be insane, as so many companies will try to outpace OpenAI.
Having said that, I do acknowledge that for a lot of people the current developments in the AI space are just a bit too much. That’s why I sat down with my colleague Christoph and wrote a book about AI, its basics, the chances it offers and the outlook we see right now. It’s in German and I think it is the ideal stocking stuffer for Christmas. I got the idea to write it a few weeks ago, when I was giving a talk in Braunschweig. There were a couple hundred people in the audience and they all wanted to get a basic understanding of what is going on with this AI thing. So we wrote a book for these folks and for everybody else who needs a basic intro to AI. Make sure to order it now!
The book is called Künstliche Intelligenz kompakt: Grundlagen, Chancen und Perspektiven. - I can highly recommend it, but also, I’m a bit biased. It was actually lots of fun to write about aspects of AI and then illustrate each chapter by prompting DALL-E through ChatGPT-4. Anyhow, if you order this book now, it will probably arrive in time for Christmas. We used the services provided by our portfolio-company Story.one to write and publish this book, that’s why it’s a book on demand, and also print only.
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Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit
So this is how the current wave of AI got started. Interesting, longish read that helps to understand the AI ecosystem in the Silicon Valley and how everything is intertwined in one way or another.
The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side
“Toner maintains that safety wasn’t the reason the board wanted to fire Altman. Rather, it was a lack of trust. On that basis, she said, dismissing him was consistent with the OpenAI board’s duty to ensure AI systems are built responsibly. “ - while I understand her motives, this move was incredibly shortsighted.
Google’s Gemini Is the Real Start of the Generative AI Boom
One year after the big splash of ChatGPT onto the scene, Google seems to finally have an answer. We’ll see how Gemini and the new natively multimodal model will spur the competition in the next months to come.
Liquid AI, a new MIT spinoff, wants to build an entirely new type of AI
Thankfully Liquid AI came up with the liquid neural network, otherwise AI would get boring soon. Liquid AI wants to reduce the computing power needed for AI based operations, which is probably a great idea.
How I Use ChatGPT (As a Reasonable Person)
Here’s a little refresher for all you wannabe prompt ninjas out there!
That’s it for this week in Five Things AI - I hope you enjoyed it and it maybe even made you a bit smarter! Please invite your friends to subscribe to this newsletter!