AI Daily Insights @ 8 O‘clock-29/12/2023
🔔 Today’s Trending News
1）SAM ALTMAN SAYS HE’S FASCINATED WITH THE TERMINATOR
As Bloomberg reports, Altman is again on the speech circuit and was quoted waxing prolific about the many ways he thinks artificial intelligence will "lift the world up."
Weirdly, the now-famous CEO also said that he's fascinated with rogue AI in science fiction like the killer robots depicted in the "Terminator" franchise, during his first public appearance since the so-called "Turkey-Shoot Clusterfuck" just before Thanksgiving that saw OpenAI's board try and fail to stage a coup.
Hugging Face CEO aims to build a sustainable model for open-source Al, following in Red Hat's footsteps.Recent turmoil at OpenAl prompts partners to seek open-source alternatives for Al models.Hugging Face's platform attracts over 2 million AI builders, with broad usage across various domains and industries.
Prompt engineering is not as revolutionary as it seems, says an OpenAl employee, who believes that effective communication with Al systems is no different from communicating with humans.
The skills that will truly matter in 2024 are reading, writing,and speaking, giving humans a competitive edge over highly intelligent robots as Al technology advances.
Learning how to talk to Al systems can a so help humans become better communicators and managers, according to some users responses to the OpenAl emplovee's post.
4）Baidu’s ChatGPT Rival Surpasses 100 Million Users
Baidu's ChatGPT rival, Ernie Bot, has surpassed 100 million users, Chief Technology Officer Wang Haifeng said on Thursday, a significant milestone for the five-month-old chatbot and a marked reversal of fortune.Publicly traded Baidu first announced the product in March, but investors initially reacted negatively when the company used pre-recorded videos to demonstrate the chatbot ahead of an unspecified rollout date.
5）Apple's first public LLM is called Ferret, powered by 8 Nivida A100 GPUs
Apple is getting serious about generative AI, releasing its first Multimodel Large Language Model dubbed Ferret. The new AI model has been published under an open source license and was trained using 8 Nvidia A100 GPUs.
📲 Today’s New Products and Features
1）Microsoft’s next Surface laptops will reportedly be its first true ‘AI PCs’
Microsoft is getting ready to upgrade its Surface lineup with new AI-enabled features, according to a report from Windows Central. Unnamed sources told the outlet the upcoming Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 will come with a next-gen neural processing unit (NPU), along with Intel and Arm-based options.
2）Android Auto will have Google Assistant summarize your messages with AI
When driving, it’s fine to have one or two messages read aloud, but hearing more than that, such as every response in a group conversation, could be disruptive. Android Auto’s solution to that is having Google Assistant “summarize your messages” — specifically “busy conversations” — with AI.
Assistant can now summarize your messages. These summaries will be generated by artificial intelligence, so it’s possible there could be mistakes. You can turn this off any time in Android Auto Settings.
🍿 How is AI influencing our lives today?
1）Thanks to AI, snowstorms won't stop Walmart delivering your presents this Christmas
Walmart's investment in AI is set to make holiday shopping easier for customers and employees, with an AI-powered inventory management system that predicts demand and redistributes stock.
The system uses historical data and predictive AI to monitor and redistribute stock based on local demographics, macroeconomic trends, and even local weather events.
Walmart's embrace of AI also includes tools such as voice assistants, self-checkout cameras, chatbots, and last-mile delivery systems, with plans to explore emerging tech like augmented reality and virtual reality in the future.
💡 Today's Perspective
1）Vinod Khosla, an early investor in OpenAI, believes AI will create massive deflation, he said on the X platform：
AI should be hugely deflationary over twenty five years. Capital should be scarce for a while, current measures of GDP and the economy will be less relevant but goods and services should be in great abundance. The key question is what are the right measures and the right questions.