Stability AI releases its first Text to Animation tool
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we can use natural language text prompts to create everything from animations and images to drugs and videos … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Nvidia chief says everyone will soon be a programmer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI automates programming increasingly all you need to do to create a piece of software is type what you want into an AI LLM prompt box. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
Despite its guardrails experts still made ChatGPT create Ransomware
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Guardrails on AI work, kind of, but the SANS Institute were still able to get ChatGPT to create Ransomware for them and it shows how easily the tech can be tricked still. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
AI is getting better at generating movies and Hollywood’s nervous
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day AI will make a full length good movie, but until then it’s getting better and practising its art. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
China races to lay down new laws to deal with Generative AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China is often the fastest to roll out new regulations to regulate new technologies, but that’s good and bad … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
A survey of 1.5 Million people shows a third can’t tell AI from Humans
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI and other technologies will only improve from here so if one third of people can be fooled by them today in the future it’ll be 100 percent. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Invisible AI helps cars makers see what machines and humans do wrong
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly we are using machines to watch human and machine workers and autonomously monitor their performance, report on it, and make interventions. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Stanford researchers created a ChatGPT clone for $600 then shut it down
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI LLM’s from big companies have guardrails and filters, but cheaper open source LLM’s don’t or won’t which means they could be more easily abused. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Google’s core search business is feeling the heat from ChatGPT
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly people are finding using Bing and ChatGPT are better than using traditional Google search, so Google is loosing share but also fighting back. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
JPMorgan used ChatGPT to analyse decades worth of Fed speeches to find signals
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way that organisations and leaders talk can often give Wall Street subtle clues on the future of stocks, so banks are using new tools to analyse more financial data. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Bloomberg used 1.3 Million GPU hours and 600 Billion documents to train BloombergGPT
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creating even “small” AI models takes up extraordinary amounts of computer power, but as computers get more powerful and cheaper, and as AI learning algorithms get more efficient this “effort” will drop. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
ChatGPT’s creators say AI Super Intelligence is impossible to stop
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Since we haven’t created an ASI yet we could stop AI development today to prevent one from appearing so what the creators mean is that we (Humanity) won’t stop. And that’s different from can’t. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...
New brain decoding tech lets researchers see through the eyes of Mice for first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you thought that being able to see life through someone else’s eyes was impossible well not it isn’t … are humans next? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Crypto scammers are using AI to create fake CEOs to land big bucks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s ability to create increasingly photo real and authentic human-like content is great news for scammers, and bad news for trust. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Snapchat’s ChatGPT chat bot is creeping out kids and parents
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence is not controllable, the consequences are often unpredictable, and as these models get better at adapting to the user the consequences could be dire. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
NASA explores brain training to help astronauts live on the Moon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In education circles we increasingly talk about neuro diversity and neuro training, and now NASA is tapping into the potential of these to help prepare astronauts for the unknown. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
OpenAI makes it easier to create 3D objects from text prompts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In time we will move from Text to 2D image to Text to Video and Text to 3D, VR, and all kinds of other content. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Avengers director predicts AI will be able to make movies within two years
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We have already seen AI try to make movies, and it made very short awful ones, but the tech will get better quickly … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Andrew Ng launches LandingLens to democratise AI development for everyone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today AI models are hard to create, but what if there was a tool that could let anyone create one? That’s the purpose of Andrew Ng’s latest venture. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
MidJourney’s founders launch their first generative video app on iOS
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Getting an AI to generate great video is alot harder than getting it to generate great images, but Runway’s founders are up to the challenge. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...