- AI has solved Stage 1 of the Vesuvius Challenge - effectively reading text from crisped up scrolls from 79AD
- A fun case study on AI helping us learn how babies learn language
- Vitalik discussing the intersection of AI and crypto. When proof of being human will start to matter more and more - blockchain may find a use?
- Dave Kellogg recapping his Future of Work Podcast discussing AI
- Tyler Cowen has two additional podcasts worth checking out re: AI.
- Google rebrands and relaunches Bard as Gemini (2 mo free trial) claiming “The largest model Ultra 1.0 is the first to outperform human experts on MMLU (massive multitask language understanding), which uses a combination of 57 subjects — including math, physics, history, law, medicine and ethics — to test knowledge and problem-solving abilities.”
- “This guy trained a bot to swipe on Tinder profiles based on his preferences, and then used ChatGPT to message them and set up dates. He communicated with 5,200+ women - and one year later, he's now engaged to one of them (after ChatGPT suggested he propose).”
- Technical (still working through it personally) paper on Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right
- Andrew Chen writes “It's obvious that generative AI will fundamentally reinvent marketing.” He is the author of a great book - The Cold Start Problem. Two of a few excerpt below. I think it will have fundamental changes in management as well that aren’t discussed:
- “At the low end, AI will allow individual marketers and small business to create complex marketing materials with leverage that is hard to imagine today.”
- “At the high end, a Fortune 500 brand might simply produce several orders of magnitude more marketing than they do today.”
- “The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction”
- An Email Humanizer GPT - “Rephrase emails to convey empathy and understanding”
- YouTube's manifesto on AI (4 big bets…)
Generative AI Weekly - Feb. 8, 2024
February 8, 2024