Five Things Tech: AI, AI, Biology, AI, AI
Is it just me or is AI currently the talk of town?
This week, Five Things Tech is all about AI. We are currently witnessing a breakneck speed of development and it looks like the creativity of developers worldwide has been unleashed. Every day new little apps appear on the scene and do one or two really cool things that make working with GenerativeAI a bit easier, more fun or just cooler. I tested Adobe Firefly this week and was amazed by the speed and the quality of the pictures it generated. For people who need some inspiration for the prompts, have a look at Unprompt.ai, which shows you the prompts that were used to generate images. Great stuff, powered by an early adopter community.
Currently a lot of people express concern about the power of AI and I invite those people to play around with the prompts and figure out what ChatGPT, Midjourney and other services can do - and what they still lack. I tried an easy way out this week and asked ChatGPT: “please write a column about AI and the jobmarket in the style of Nico Lumma” and the text was so boring that I had to write it myself. It turned out much better, of course.
AI Is Exposing Who Really Has Power in Silicon Valley
It turns out it’s not the workers in Kenya who get $2 for their work on OpenAI. And while OpenAI seems to reshuffle the cards again in Silicon Valley, it’s also not the users who benefit most from this. (The Atlantic)
Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history
Tyler Cowen argues that two fundamental truths, at least for Americans, no longer exist - and this obviously changes everything. But still, we have no choice but to accept it and take a leap into the future.
Accelerating genetic design
I have to admit that I probably only understood 10% of this article. Basically, because I didn’t pay enough attention in Biology and Chemistry class in school. But this stuff is really breathtaking. (Century of Biology)
Where does generative AI fit in the IoT?
Stacey Higginbotham puts a spotlight on GenerativeAI and IoT, showing what Large Language Model could do in the house when this technology powers smart devices at home. Really interesting will be how this changes factories, but this will be the next step.
A.I. Is Sucking the Entire Internet In. What If You Could Yank Some Back Out?
Slate reports on an interesting issue that we previously never thought about. What if you don’t want to be part of the training data that feeds into the GenerativeAI systems? AI might solve some interesting problems, but it also leads to a bunch of new and fascinating challenges.
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