Five Things AI: Future, Culture, Cybersecurity, Search, Transformation
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Thanks for reading this newsletter! My name is Nico Lumma, I’ve been working in the tech sector for more than 20 years. I have been fascinated in AI and invested in many startups in the last few years. Aaaaand, I have been writing Five Things AI for quite a while now, to make it easier for you to follow what’s happening in the wonderful and oftentimes weird field of Artificial Intelligence. So basically I read a lot of you, so that you don’t have to!
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The Future Is Bright if You Know Where to Look
Let’s start with a positive outlook on the future. AI will influence everything and will make our lives better.
The Year That A.I. Came for Culture
“This seems to be the future A.I. promises. Endless content generated by robots, enjoyed by no one, clogging up everything, and wasting everyone’s time.” - methinks the author has its doubts about the future AI could promise.
Cybersecurity guru Mikko Hyppönen’s 5 biggest AI threats for 2024
If you’d ask me, I’d say that it could be a really good idea to pay attention to what is happening in the cybersecurity sector. Ideally companies would invest more into this. Soon.
Perplexity AI raises $74M to take on Google and Microsoft Bing with AI-native search
Some illustrious people and companies invest in Perplexity AI and try to redefine how we search the interwebs. Google needs some competition, we’ll soon find out if Perplexity AI will be more than just another one of the many proposed Google killers that died quickly…
Artificial intelligence is transforming our world — it is on all of us to make sure that it goes well
“If we leave the development of artificial intelligence entirely to private companies, then we are also leaving it up these private companies what our future — the future of humanity — will be.” - this article does a pretty good job in summarizing where AI is right now, how it got there and where it could be headed. And that we need to deal with this, which means not just proper regulation, but more attention and better understanding of what happens with AI.
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