The New News in AI: 10/11/24 Edition
The New News in AI: 10/11/24 Edition
A curated source of the latest happenings in AI this week.
Some very exciting (and a little unnerving) news this week. Elon shows off robots, robotaxis & robovans, Google NotebookLM AI Podcasters find out their not human, Americans are using AI a good bit, in Higher Ed, faculty are behind on AI, and AI leaders get Nobel Prizes!
A conversation between Tesla Optimus bot and a human is the best thing you’ll see on the internet today.
(MRM – Click on the link above to watch. Best part is when he asks the robot what is the hardest thing about being a robot)
The Upside & Downside of AI Podcast - MRM
Everyone is talking about the new hashtag#AI Notebook LM tool from Google that lets you create podcasts from articles and other sources. I decided to try it for myself, using one of my prior pieces, The Upside and Downside of AI, as the basis for the podcast. The result, which you can listen to in the article, is simply amazing. It doesn't just read the article - it has a discussion between two "people" about it that is very engaging.
Just listen for 1-2 minutes to get the flavor of what it can do. Impressive.
NotebookLM Podcast hosts find out they’re not human.
(MRM – Click on the link above to listen. These are “hosts” of podcasts you can create via Google NotebookLM. Honestly, I found it a little heartbreaking.)
Americans are using AI at fairly high rates. What does this mean for the economy?
Before conducting a recent survey of Americans to figure out how much they're using generative AI, Harvard University economist David Deming says he was solidly in the "AI skeptic" camp. That is, he was skeptical that the explosion of generative AI would offer sizable benefits for the U.S. economy anytime soon. Now, however, he says he's more optimistic.
"I was very surprised at the numbers in our survey," Deming says. "And it sort of made me think that AI is gonna be a bigger deal than I would've thought."
The study, Deming says, was motivated by questions over whether and how much Americans are using generative artificial intelligence. Doing what economists tend to do, he and his colleagues, Alexander Bick and Adam Blandin, wanted to get some good data.
Deming says he was shocked by the results. He and his colleagues found that almost 40% of Americans, ages 18 to 64, have used generative AI. And a sizable percentage seems to use it regularly. In their August survey, the economists found that more than 24% of American workers had used it "at least once in the week prior to being surveyed, and nearly one in nine used it every workday."
Even more surprising, Deming says, usage of AI seems to be pretty much across the board. He expected that younger and more-educated Americans would be the biggest users. They confirmed that's the case. "But we even found that 22% of blue-collar workers say they use AI, and usage rates were above 20% in every major occupation category except personal services, where it was like 15%," he says.
I've been testing ChatGPT Canvas — here's why I think it's the most important AI tool of the year | Tom's Guide
OpenAI revealed its new ChatGPT Canvas feature last week, a new approach to interacting with artificial intelligence that turns it more into a collaborator than something that does the work for you. Essentially, it is a new AI-first writing and coding editor built into ChatGPT.
On the surface, it is very similar to the Artifacts feature from Anthropic. Built into Claude, Artifacts allows you to see the output from certain types of AI generation, including code, text, and vector graphics, inside an independent view instead of inline in the chat window.
Unlike Artifacts, Canvas goes further, implementing editing functionality within the window, adding AI-generated comments and some of the AI writing tools we've come to expect from any modern word processor, including Docs and Word. It also performs this task for code.
You can write your article, essay, or report inside the Canvas, or in a ChatGPT window, then say "use canvas," and it will appear like it would in any other writing editor.
Unlike other writing editors, you can highlight a section and 'ask ChatGPT' how to improve it, have the AI go online and look for real-world data to back up a claim or add sections to expand on a specific point.
Should you use AI to buy your home? Here's what some say
The way Americans buy homes is changing dramatically.
New industry rules about how home buyers' real estate agents get paid are prompting a reckoning among housing experts and the tech sector. Many house hunters who are already stretched thin by record-high home prices and closing costs must now decide whether, and how much, to pay an agent.
A 2-3% commission on the median home price of $416,700 could be well over $10,000, and in a world where consumers are accustomed to using technology for everything from taxes to tickets, many entrepreneurs see an opportunity to automate away the middleman, even as some consumer advocates say not so fast.
The tech-enabled AI upstarts
The home search function at Flyhomes, a Seattle-based real estate tech company that bills itself as “the world’s first AI-powered home search,” has been up and running since June. “The way that we designed this is really to be almost like you're talking to a local real estate agent, and to be able to answer not all the questions because it's not a human, but maybe 80% of the questions,” said Adam Hopson, the company’s chief strategy officer.
Additionally, Hopson said, some questions that a human agent might have to research – when were permits last pulled on the home, how close are the nearest power lines – are now readily at hand, thanks to the reams of data the Flyhomes team has programmed into the tool.
AI is also available when house hunters are most likely to be browsing, he said: late at night, on the weekend, or other times when a human might be unable to answer a question. Raffi Isanians, the cofounder and CEO of Modern Realty, which calls itself an "AI Realtor for Home Buyers," believes the search part of the process is secondary. Consumers care most about having a human agent help with pricing strategy and negotiations, he said, and Modern has built its model accordingly.
Gen AI Higher Ed Survey – Faculty Are Behind on AI
Professor use AI-generated readings for students – Ethan Mollick
At OpenAI's education event last night, heard from a couple professors who were replacing purchased class readings with AI-generated (importantly, vetted/edited by the professor!) customized readings that synthesized a lot of content and were designed to better fit the syllabus.
Tesla Cybercab debuts: Elon Musk reveals robotaxi and robovan
Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled a self-driving vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals Thursday night, saying it would go into production before 2027.
Why it matters: Musk has been teasing the robotaxi for years, but the so-called Tesla Cybercab took a step closer to becoming a reality when it dropped Musk off at the stage for the company's "We, Robot" event on the Warner Bros. Studios lot in Hollywood.
"You could fall asleep and wake up at your destination," Musk said as 20 units of the Cybercab drove around the lot without people in them.
Between the lines: While acknowledging that he has a track record for overly optimistic predictions, Musk said the autonomous technology is AI-driven and does not require new hardware. He also said:
The Cybercab — a coupe with a futuristic silver body and butterfly doors — will eventually cost "below $30,000" and "we'll make this vehicle in very high volume."
It will cost 20 cents per mile to operate, and riders will be able to hail a ride for 30 cents to 40 cents per mile.
The company expects to go from "supervised" autonomous driving in its current vehicles to "unsupervised" driving in 2025 in Texas and California with the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y.
The Cybercab will use inductive charging to fill up on electricity and will not have a charging cord.
In a surprise, the company also revealed a "robovan," a self-driving van capable of carrying up to 20 passengers or being configured for cargo purposes.
It looked like a futuristic train car with smooth edges and virtually no space between the bottom of the vehicle and the pavement as it rolled up to the stage.
"We're going to make this and it's going to look like that," Musk said. "The robovan is what's going to solve for high density."
Musk also showed off the latest version of its Optimus humanoid robots, with Musk saying "we've made a lot of progress" and predicting that it will eventually cost $20,000 to $30,000.
He said Optimus "will basically do anything you want," like mow the lawn, buy groceries or walk the dog.
"You can have your own personal R2D2, C3PO," he said.
Video from the Tesla “We, Robo” Event
(MRM – it’s an 8 minute video that’s well worth watching. A little freaky, tbh)
Scientists who built ‘foundation’ for AI awarded Nobel Prize - The Verge
Two scientists credited with laying the “foundation of today’s powerful machine learning,” University of Toronto professor emeritus Geoffrey Hinton and Princeton University professor John Hopfield, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics today.
Their discoveries and inventions laid the groundwork for many of the recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, the Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Since the 1980s, their work has enabled the creation of artificial neural networks, computer architecture loosely modeled after the structure of the brain.
By mimicking the way our brains make connections, neural networks allow AI tools to essentially “learn by example.” Developers can train an artificial neural network to recognize complex patterns by feeding it data, undergirding some of the most high-profile uses of AI today, from language generation to image recognition.
Google DeepMind leaders share Nobel Prize in chemistry for protein prediction AI
In a second Nobel win for AI, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded half the 2024 prize in chemistry to Demis Hassabis, the cofounder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and John M. Jumper, a director at the same company, for their work on using artificial intelligence to predict the structures of proteins. The other half goes to David Baker, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, for his work on computational protein design. The winners will share a prize pot of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million).
The potential impact of this research is enormous. Proteins are fundamental to life, but understanding what they do involves figuring out their structure—a very hard puzzle that once took months or years to crack for each type of protein. By cutting down the time it takes to predict a protein’s structure, computational tools such as those developed by this year’s award winners are helping scientists gain a greater understanding of how proteins work and opening up new avenues of research and drug development. The technology could unlock more efficient vaccines, speed up research on cures for cancer, or lead to completely new materials.
Hassabis and Jumper created AlphaFold, which in 2020 solved a problem scientists have been wrestling with for decades: predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein from a sequence of amino acids. The AI tool has since been used to predict the shapes of all proteins known to science.
Their latest model, AlphaFold 3, can predict the structures of DNA, RNA, and molecules like ligands, which are essential to drug discovery. DeepMind has also released the source code and database of its results to scientists for free.
Walmart Reveals Plan for Scaling Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Augmented Reality and Immersive Commerce Experiences
Walmart has developed a system of proprietary GenAI platforms to power GenAI technology, with the latest being Wallaby – a series of retail-specific LLMs that will primarily be used to create customer-facing experiences. Wallaby is trained with decades of Walmart data, enabling Walmart to combine it with other LLMs to create responses that are highly contextual and tailored to the Walmart environment. It is also trained to respond in a natural tone that aligns with Walmart’s core values.
Leveraging a combination of GenAI platforms, Walmart also has created a more personalized version of its AI-powered Customer Support Assistant. Now, the Customer Support Assistant recognizes who the customer is right from the start and goes beyond just understanding the customer’s intent to taking actions, like finding orders and managing returns. In testing, customers reported an overall smoother experience that helped them handle their issues quickly and on their own. The company is actively building dozens of additional GenAI tools for customers, members, associates and partners that leverage its GenAI platforms, including enhanced care assistants for Sam’s Club and Walmart International.
Propagandists keep trying to use ChatGPT, OpenAI report says
Propagandists seeking to influence elections around the globe have tried to use ChatGPT in their operations, according to a report released Wednesday by the technology’s creator, OpenAI.
While ChatGPT is generally seen as one of the leading AI chatbots on the market it also heavily moderates how people use its product. OpenAI is the only major tech company to repeatedly release public reports about how bad actors have tried to misuse its Large Language Model, or LLM, product, giving some insight into how propagandists and criminal or state-backed hackers have tried to use the technology and may use it with other AI models.
OpenAI said in its report that this year it has stopped people who tried to use ChatGPT to generate content about elections in the U.S., Rwanda, India, and the European Union. It’s not clear whether any were widely seen.
In one instance, the company described an Iranian propaganda operation of fake English-language news websites that purported to reflect different American political stances, though it’s not clear that those sites have ever gotten substantial engagement from real people. They also used ChatGPT to create social media posts in support of those sites, according to the report.
In a media call last month, U.S. intelligence officials said that propagandists working for Iran, as well as Russia and China, have all incorporated AI into their ongoing propaganda operations aimed at U.S. voters but that none appear to have found major success.
Microsoft announces new AI tools to help ease workload for doctors and nurses
Microsoft on Thursday announced new health-care data and artificial intelligence tools, including a collection of medical imaging models, a health-care agent service and an automated documentation solution for nurses.
The tools aim to help health-care organizations build AI applications quicker and save clinicians time on administrative tasks, a major cause of industry burnout. Nurses spend as much as 41% of their time on documentation, according to a report from the Office of the Surgeon General.
“By integrating AI into health care, our goal is to reduce the strain on medical staff, foster the collective health team collaboration, enhance the overall efficiency of healthcare systems across the country,” Mary Varghese Presti, vice president of portfolio evolution and incubation at Microsoft Health and Life Sciences, said in a prerecorded briefing with reporters.
The new tools are the latest example of Microsoft’s efforts to establish itself as a leader in health-care AI. Last October, the company unveiled a series of health features across its Azure cloud and Fabric analytics platform. It also acquired Nuance Communications, which offers speech-to-text AI solutions for health care and other sectors, in a $16 billion deal in 2021.
Study: ChatGPT needs expert supervision to help parents with children’s healthcare information
New research from the University of Kansas Life Span Institute highlights a key vulnerability to misinformation generated by artificial intelligence and a potential model to combat it.
The study, appearing in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, reveals parents seeking health care information for their children trust AI more than health care professionals when the author is unknown, and parents also rate AI generated text as credible, moral and trustworthy.
“When we began this research, it was right after ChatGPT first launched — we had concerns about how parents would use this new, easy method to gather health information for their children,” said lead author Calissa Leslie-Miller, KU doctoral student in clinical child psychology. “Parents often turn to the internet for advice, so we wanted to understand what using ChatGPT would look like and what we should be worried about.”
Leslie-Miller and her colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study with 116 parents, aged 18 to 65, who were given health-related text, such as information on infant sleep training and nutrition. They reviewed content generated by both ChatGPT and by health care professionals, though participants were not informed of the authorship.
“Participants rated the texts based on perceived morality, trustworthiness, expertise, accuracy and how likely they would be to rely on the information,” Leslie-Miller said.
According to the KU researcher, in many cases parents couldn’t distinguish between the content generated by ChatGPT and that by experts. When there were significant differences in ratings, ChatGPT was rated as more trustworthy, accurate and reliable than the expert-generated content.
How ChatGPT Could Dominate the Future of Marketing through AI Adoption
AI in marketing is no longer just about automating simple tasks like email scheduling or segmenting audiences; it’s about redefining how brands interact with consumers. ChatGPT has enabled brands to create hyper-personalized campaigns that adapt in real time to customer preferences. By processing vast amounts of data—ranging from social media interactions to purchasing behavior—ChatGPT can predict and respond to individual needs more effectively than traditional marketing strategies.
Consider its application in content creation. ChatGPT is used to write compelling blog posts, social media content, and email campaigns. What makes it revolutionary is the automation and the platform’s ability to produce human-like text that resonates emotionally with readers. This degree of personalization has led to increased consumer engagement, with early adopters reporting a 20% uplift in click-through rates, according to the same Statista report.
Furthermore, ChatGPT’s application in customer service has improved the customer journey. The tool enables businesses to offer 24/7 customer support without the overhead costs associated with human staff. Brands utilizing AI chatbots like ChatGPT have experienced a 40% reduction in customer service response time, contributing to higher customer satisfaction and loyalty.
ChatGPT’s Google search rival is set to go live this year – could SearchGPT break Google's hold on the web?
ChatGPT’s Google search rival, SearchGPT, is set to launch by the end of this year, ushering in a new generation of OpenAI’s chatbot.
As reported by Press Gazette, OpenAI’s head of media Varun Shetty told a conference in Brussels that the company intended to launch SearchGPT as part of ChatGPT by “the end of the year.”
SearchGPT is OpenAI’s AI-powered search engine that will allow users to quickly get answers to queries without clicking through to another website. You’ll simply be able to ask things like “Did the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Miami Dolphins last night? And if so who scored?” and get a full run-down of the results.
However, SearchGPT is currently in testing, and reports of the AI search engine’s performance have been less than stellar so far. In September, The Washington Post published an article with hands-on impressions of the search engine, and there was a sense that Google’s AI rival still had lots of work to do.
OpenAI Media Chief Says Readers Reject ChatGPT Stories: ‘No One Wants to Read AI-Generated News’
Most people are skeptical of news stories created by artificial intelligence — and that includes the top media executive at OpenAI.
Varun Shetty, the head of media partnerships at OpenAI, said AI news isn’t what the public wants right now.
“No one wants to read AI-generated news,” Shetty said on Monday.
That comment came during a Monday appearance at the Twipe Digital Growth Summit in Brussels, according to the Press Gazette.
Shetty’s statement is backed up by a June survey from the Reuters Institute and the University of Oxford. While saying “no one” wants AI-generated news wouldn’t be literally true, the survey found a strong majority of people aren’t fans of it.
“Our survey data show that, across all countries, only a minority currently feels comfortable using news made by humans with the help of AI (36%),” said Dr. Amy Ross Arguedas, who wrote the survey summary. “And an even smaller proportion is comfortable using news made mostly by AI with human oversight (19%).”
Shetty, in his comments on Monday, said AI is best used as a tool to augment stories, rather than write them altogether.
Uber will use ChatGPT to encourage EV use
To do so, the company will roll out an AI assistant powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT GPT-4o, which will answer drivers’ questions about buying and using electric vehicles as opposed to a gas-powered car, executives said at the Go Get Zero sustainability conference in London on Tuesday.
Sachin Kansal, vice president of product management at Uber, said that the driver AI assistant is already in beta testing and will launch with EV-specific questions and other use cases within a few months.
“EV Preference,” another new feature for users, allows customers to hail only fully electric vehicles. That feature will be rolled out on the app over the coming months, and the company believes the option will “help a lot of riders go green,” said Kansal.
I’m a Doctor. ChatGPT’s Bedside Manner Is Better Than Mine.
(MRM – to be honest, not a high bar. 😉)
As a young, idealistic medical student in the 2000s, I thought my future job as a doctor would always be safe from artificial intelligence.
At the time it was already clear that machines would eventually outperform humans at the technical side of medicine. Whenever I searched Google with a list of symptoms from a rare disease, for example, the same abstruse answer that I was struggling to memorize for exams reliably appeared within the first few results.
But I was certain that the other side of practicing medicine, the human side, would keep my job safe. This side requires compassion, empathy and clear communication between doctor and patient. As long as patients were still composed of flesh and blood, I figured, their doctors would need to be, too. The one thing I would always have over A.I. was my bedside manner.
When ChatGPT and other large language models appeared, however, I saw my job security go out the window.
These new tools excel at medicine’s technical side — I’ve seen them diagnose complex diseases and offer elegant, evidence-based treatment plans. But they’re also great at bedside communication, crafting language that convinces listeners that a real, caring person exists behind the words. In one study, ChatGPT’s answers to patient questions were rated as more empathetic (and also of higher quality) than those written by actual doctors.
You might find it disturbing that A.I. can have a better bedside manner than humans. But the reason it can is that in medicine — as in many other areas of life — being compassionate and considerate involves, to a surprising degree, following a prepared script.
ChatGPT 4o with Canvas: How to use it and what it is
Early October turned out to be a busy month for OpenAI. The company hosted this year’s DevDay event, where it unveiled new tools developers can use to integrate ChatGPT into their apps, including a Realtime API that enables Advanced Voice Mode functionality in third-party apps.
OpenAI has also made Advanced Voice Mode available to ChatGPT Free users, though you only get 15 minutes of voice chatting per month.
Fast-forward to Thursday, and OpenAI released a big update to the ChatGPT experience, the Canvas mode for the GPT-4o model that will come in handy for writing and coding jobs that require lots of going back and forth with the AI to get the result you need.
Users familiar with Anthropic’s Artifacts will immediately get the gist of Canvas. The feature is meant to simplify writing and coding jobs where you want to involve the AI. Rather than chatting with ChatGPT in a single window to request edits, you’ll get a new user interface, as the chatbot will open a separate window to work with you on text and code.
How ChatGPT Voice Has Made The World More Accessible
(MRM – I use the voice feature a lot. Works great)
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of joining a few hundred educators in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, to keynote their event celebrating World Teachers' Day. What made this occasion truly special was the presence of representatives from their student digital champions program. During my talk, I invited an 11-year-old student to join me on stage to demonstrate the new Advanced Voice feature of ChatGPT.
What happened blew my mind.
The student and I decided to have a conversation, him speaking Dutch and me speaking English, with ChatGPT acting as our live translator.
The AI facilitated a seamless dialogue between us. We understood each other perfectly, bridging the language barrier effortlessly. The world is getting smaller and a lot more accessible thanks to AI. This experience embodies the transformative potential of AI in educational settings. Tools such as ChatGPT's Advanced Voice mode are poised to enhance the learning experience.
ChatGPT remembers things about you now. But you can switch its memory off.
OpenAI continues to plug new features and options into its AI-powered ChatGPT bot, and one of the latest to arrive is ‘memories’. They’re exactly what they sound like: things ChatGPT will remember about what you know, what you like, and how you want it to respond.
“Remembering things you discuss across all chats saves you from having to repeat information and makes future conversations more helpful,” says OpenAI. The feature is now available to all ChatGPT users on both free and paid plans.
For the privacy-conscious, this might set off a few alarm bells—but if you’d rather every conversation with ChatGPT was a blank slate, you can disable memories. Here we’ll explain how ChatGPT memories work, and how you can control what the AI bot does and doesn’t remember.
To remember, or not to remember.
You can disable or wipe memories whenever you like. Screenshot: OpenAI
This memory feature in ChatGPT is completely customizable, as we’ll explain below—you can stop the bot from remembering anything, or you can be selective about what is and what isn’t logged in its memory banks. Before you dive in, though, it might be worth thinking about how much use you want to get out of the feature.
Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator
A new AI-powered video generator from Meta produces high-definition footage complete with sound, the company announced today. The announcement comes several months after competitor OpenAI unveiled Sora, its text-to-video model — though public access to Movie Gen isn’t happening yet.
Movie Gen uses text inputs to automatically generate new videos, as well as edit existing footage or still images. The New York Times reports that the audio added to videos is also AI-generated, matching the imagery with ambient noise, sound effects, and background music. The videos can be generated in different aspect ratios.
In addition to generating new clips, Meta says Movie Gen can also create custom videos from images or take an existing video and change different elements of it. One example shared by the company shows a still headshot of a woman; the added video depicts her sitting in a pumpkin patch sipping a drink.
Best free ChatGPT courses | Mashable
We've checked out everything on offer from edX and lined up a selection of standout ChatGPT courses to get you started. These are the best online ChatGPT courses you can take for free this month on edX:
ChatGPT o1-preview excels at code generation | InfoWorld
OpenAI’s latest generative AI model is much better at code generation than previous models, but slower and more expensive — and not quite ready for production.
The recently released ChatGPT o1-preview model is an early version of the much-rumored “Strawberry” model. I tested it out by asking it to implement a QuickSort algorithm as a C++ function with integer inputs, a task that has stymied many earlier models, and to write a test suite for the function. Its first response was entirely correct, a big improvement over what I’d seen in the past, and included explanations of what it was doing, but I wasn’t satisfied: I pushed the model for improvements multiple times.
After considerable back and forth, and an actual model crash from which o1-preview eventually recovered, I wound up with a robust, optimized QuickSort function using modern C++, which incorporated randomized pivot selection, gated insertion sorting of small runs, Dutch-flag three-way partitioning to handle duplicates, exception handling, parallelization of large arrays using threads, and a well-factored bank of tests. That result would have been a good day’s work by a smart junior C++ programmer who had read Donald Knuth’s volume on sorting and searching.
A Fake Kamala Harris Campaign Ad Uses AI and Department Store’s Old Content
The U.K.-based department store John Lewis is “urgently” calling on the socal platform X to take down a phony, AI-generated Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign ad.
The fake ad was revealed by the BBC and depicts a woman as though she wishes she’d had an abortion. A rambunctious child is seen running through a house spilling paint and misbehaving.
It was debunked by BBC Verify, an investigative team that is dedicated to examining the facts and claims behind a story to try to determine whether or not it is true. The video uses footage using an AI-generated voiceover that is meant to sound like Harris and footage from a British department store John Lewis ad from a few years ago.
The fake ad does not feature images of the Democratic presidential nominee nor her running mate Walz, but their names momentarily appear in the upper lefthand portion of the screen. Reproductive rights is one of the key issues in this year’s U.S. presidential race between Harris and former President Donald Trump.
In its coverage, the BBC said it had consulted with an “AI expert” who confirmed the Harris ad was “AI generated with notable flaws in the audio, including how ‘by’ was pronounced in the sentence, ‘We cannot stand by while freedom is stripped away.'” The specialist also flagged how an overlay music track is “a common trick used to disguise evidence of AI generation or manipulation,” according to the BBC.
Man paralyzed in diving mishap has medical miracle a year after AI-powered brain implant
A New York man who was left paralyzed after a diving accident is starting to regain movement a year after receiving an artificial intelligence-powered implant in his brain.
A year ago, Keith Thomas, 46, was only able to move his arms an inch. Today, after the groundbreaking procedure, he is able to extend his arm, grasp a cup and take a drink using only his thoughts and stimulation.
He has also regained more sensation in his wrist and arm, allowing him to feel the fur of his family’s dog.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Spending Is Set to Hit $631 Billion in 2028:
Market research firm IDC recently released a report stating that the global artificial intelligence (AI) market is now worth $235 billion, and the good part is that this technology still has a lot of room for growth over the next five years. IDC estimates that global spending on AI and generative AI could hit $631 billion in 2028.
The ‘Mozart of Math’ isn’t worried about AI replacing math nerds — ever
Terence Tao, a UCLA professor considered to be the “world’s greatest living mathematician,” last month compared ChapGPT’s o1 reasoning model to a “mediocre, but not completely incompetent” graduate student that could correctly answer a complex analysis problem with “a lot of hints and prodding.”
AI might never beat its human teachers, he now tells The Atlantic. “One key difference [today] between graduate students and AI is that graduate students learn. You tell an AI its approach doesn’t work, it apologizes, it will maybe temporarily correct its course, but sometimes it just snaps back to the thing it tried before.”
The good news for math prodigies, adds Tao, is that AI and mathematicians will more likely always be collaborators, where instead of replace math nerds, AI will enable them to explore large-scale, previously unreachable problems. Says Tao of the future, “You might have a project and ask, ‘What if I try this approach?’ And instead of spending hours and hours actually trying to make it work, you guide a GPT to do it for you.”
I put in three separate addresses for homes in Flyhomes and all three were wrong.