Five Things Tech: Next Pandemic, AI Tools, Rural Connectivity, Restaurant near you, AI Music

Tech is just amazing. And sometimes really bizarre.

While Osama bin Laden was big on TikTok this week, AI continues to push the boundaries forward. In stark contrast to the boring apes of the NFT era, we can see that AI is changing the way we live and work. This changes tech as companies try to reinvent themselves by adapting AI and luring developers with the promise of graphic cards. And while everything is moving into the direction OpenAI defined a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just got fired. It never gets boring in tech.

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How Generative AI Could Help Us Predict the Next Pandemic

I have two simple thoughts on this: 1) not again, I can still remember the last pandemic and I don’t need another one anytime soon. 2) I wonder if AI can also explain to politicians to act and plan accordingly so that not all the institutions are overwhelmed.

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Elon Musk Can’t Help Himself

It’s terrible how Twitter/X is going down the drain thanks to Elon Musk: “Musk is now indistinguishable from the boring, unimaginative racists and antisemites he was trying to impress.”

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Revolutionizing Agriculture Requires Rethinking Rural Connectivity

The internet needs to be ubiqious if we want to tackle the big challenges of the future. This includes broadband access for farmers.

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The restaurant nearest Google

Google changes our lives in many more ways than we expected.

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DeepMind and YouTube release Lyria, a gen-AI model for music, and Dream Track to build AI tunes

Ever since The Monkees we’ve seen artificial music getting more and more popular. So AI and music are the next logical step. We’ll see how this changes the industry.

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That’s all for Five Things Tech this week!

— Nico