Neo Vision’s Weekly Rant #35
Where we RANT about what goes exceptionally good and wildly bad when you turn your company digital
Welcome to this week's edition of our weekly newsletter! By being here, you're demonstrating your awareness of the profound changes that Artificial Intelligence has already made in our societies and how it will continue transforming the way we live, work, learn, think, and feel. At this point, denying the greatness and far-reaching impact is unproductive. Instead, our focus should be on understanding the intricate implications of AI and learning how to leverage it for an easier, better, and more fulfilling life for ourselves and future generations.
The world we live in today vastly differs from just a year ago, and the pace of change is only accelerating. In this newsletter, we aim to keep you informed and prepared for these rapid advancements by curating the most relevant and insightful developments in AI and technology. So buckle up and join us as we explore cutting-edge innovation and its implications for our lives together.
🎬 Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun
Any new technology that’s so disruptive is bound to make people uneasy, and that’s certainly true with artificial intelligence. […] Three books have shaped my own thinking on this subject: Superintelligence, by Nick Bostrom; Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark; and A Thousand Brains, by Jeff Hawkins. I don’t agree with everything the authors say, and they don’t agree with each other either. But all three books are well written and thought-provoking.
I also asked GPT-4 to give me the “Top 10 Non-SF must-read books about Artificial Intelligence”. You can read its recommendations here: linkedin.com/pulse/top-10-non-sf-must-read-books-artificial-intelligence-recommended
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💥 Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4
We demonstrate that, beyond its mastery of language, GPT-4 can solve novel and difficult tasks that span mathematics, coding, vision, medicine, law, psychology and more, without needing any special prompting. Moreover, in all of these tasks, GPT-4's performance is strikingly close to human-level performance, and often vastly surpasses prior models such as ChatGPT. Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.
⚔️ After Google, Microsoft is also coming for Canva and Notion. Adobe enters the AI arena with its Own Generative AI Model
Microsoft Loop - Think, plan, and create together like never before
Adobe Launches Firefly, A Revolutionary New AI Model That Will Change The Way You Design
AI Enthusiasts Rejoice: Discovering ChatLLaMA, an Experimental Chatbot Interface for Engaging with Variants of Meta's LLaMA Model - Alpaca - I tested it a little and hallucinated more than an actual Alpaca on magic mushrooms (link here)
There couldn't be a more fitting conclusion to this week's innovation-packed newsletter than an insightful article by Alberto Romero that is sure to provoke thought