Five Things AI: Business Technology, Creative Tensions, Goose, Productivity, Weather

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Welcome back to Five Things AI! My name is Nico Lumma and I spend most of my day working with AI startups. So I need to stay informed about current developments in AI and hence I read a lot about AI. Here’s my curated list of the most interesting articles about AI that I stumbled across this week.

I hope you like these articles as much as I do. Please read on!

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Thanks to AI, Business Technology Is Finally Having Its Moment

“The generative AI boom reflects a period of tech innovation that is ideally suited for revolutionizing the business world—unlike previous tech booms that favored the creation of big tech companies that served the consumer market.” - this is really an interesting point. While we have seen a surge in the usage of ChatGPT, which turned it into an instant B2C success, it is now the business applications that will push AI usage forward.

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The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions

Scott Belsky

is looking at AI from a creative angle and his piece touches on a lot of challenging topics as AI moves forward in the creative industry. The main takeaway is: We must remember that the new “trust, but verify” is “verify, then trust.”

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Google quietly launches internal AI model named 'Goose' to help employees write code faster, leaked documents show

Code co-development is still in the beginning and I assume that this will unleash a new wave of productivity while at the same time changing the job description of a lot of developers. As there’s a shortage of developers in a lot of places, this will lead to better resource allocation.

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Is GenAI’s Impact on Productivity Overblown?

I don’t think it’s overblown per se, but there’s obviously plenty of hype around AI and we will find lots of productivity gains powered by AI in the coming years.

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Little-known startup takes the AI weather prediction crown

Little did I know about AI and weatherforecasts. I love it when startups shake it up a bit and get better results.

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