Five Things AI: Conscious AI, JD Vance, Spreadsheet LLM, Health Care, Protein Science
It's Friday again, and AI is changing almost everything really quickly.
Well, hello again! Thanks for reading this newsletter! I really appreciate it! Five Things AI is growing from week to week, so I assume that somehow I’m picking the right stories every once in a while. It would be really awesome if you could tell all your friends and family about this newsletter, so that they can also get a bit smarter every week.
Thanks, with that out of the way, let’s delve into this edition of Five Things!
Enjoy!
Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.
So, is that good or bad? How will we find out when AI has become conscious? Wouldn’t it be nice to have some sort of warning before it happens? Can someone still pull the plug? How many plugs would that be? Or how many data centers would need to be taken off the cloud?
AI Maxers Love JD Vance
I liked the book a lot, but unfortunately JD Vance turned into a MAGA Trumpist with plenty of libertarian financial backing. This guy is the exact reason why AI should be regulated.
Microsoft’s new AI system ‘SpreadsheetLLM’ unlocks insights from spreadsheets, boosting enterprise productivity
If this turns out to be only have as good as advertised, this would be a killer app for the office. For many people this could also mean that their jobs change very quickly or cease to exist at all.
AI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health Care
I believe that soon we’ll have lots of AI-based coaches that help us live a healthier life. Think about it, it just makes sense. A little nudge here and there, some guidance and some encouragement will go a long way and can help mitigate the health crisis the Western world is in.
How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It
“AlphaFold2 has undeniably shifted the way biologists study proteins. However, while AlphaFold2 is a powerful prediction tool, it’s not an omniscient machine. It has solved one part of the protein folding problem very cleverly, but not the way a scientist would. It has not replaced biological experiments but rather emphasized the need for them.”
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That’s it for Five Things AI this week! 🤖
— Nico