Five Things AI: Manufactoring, Coding, Data Centers, Competition, Humanlike Machines
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I know, I know, you expected this Five Things AI newsletter in your inbox in the early morning. Instead you got the Five Things Curator’s Cut and many very probably pretty agitated. Let me put it this way: I was happy that I remembered that February has less days than other months and then I was really happy to realize it is a leap year and then I totally forgot about the weekdays. Haha. I should have consulted with GenAI first, I guess. Or used a calendar.
Anyhow, here are five articles on Artificial Intelligence you should read!
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AI is revolutionising the biggest industry you’ve never heard of
All the images from Midjourney might feel spectacular, but when AI meets manufactoring, things really start to change and increase productivity.
Jensen Huang advises against learning to code - leave it up to AI
The opposite is still true. Kids should learn a programming language as a second foreign language in school. Not because they all should become programmers later on, but because we as a society need to understand what is happening with more and more computing power out there.
A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green
Speaking of computing power: the shear number of data centers necessary to do all the fancy AI stuff will continue to increase, which obviously creates new challenges.
Every time OpenAI cuts a check for training data, an unlaunched competitive startup dies.
The incumbents have a strategic advantage: they scraped a lot of training data before anyone realized what was going on. And not they cut deals with content providers and small startups cannot do that and therefore will have a tougher time to grow their companies.
We’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958
I guess we’ll soon find out if 2024 is anything like 1958. I’m personally fine without humanlike machines for now.
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