New Microsoft paper claims GPT-4 shows “Sparks of AGI”

New Microsoft paper claims GPT-4 shows “Sparks of AGI”

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be world changing and maybe even world breaking and OpenAI’s GPT-4 is getting closer to becoming one …   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...

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A survey of 1.5 Million people shows a third can’t tell AI from Humans

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...

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ChatGPT’s creators say AI Super Intelligence is impossible to stop

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...

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DeepMind’s newest AI thrashes human gamers at Stratego

DeepMind’s newest AI thrashes human gamers at Stratego

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all make decisions even in the absence of data and in order for AI to “take on the real world” it has to aswell but so far that’s been tricky.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...

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This astronaut riding a horse shows AI is getting better at creating synthetic content

This astronaut riding a horse shows AI is getting better at creating synthetic content

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you told a human artist to create a picture of an astronaut riding a horse they’d be able to do it, but up until now context has been very hard for AI to grasp.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future...

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Meta’s new algorithm is teaching AI how to multi-task

Meta’s new algorithm is teaching AI how to multi-task

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans multi-task, AI’s don’t – yet. This new algorithm will help us reach AGI faster …   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 blog. If you can...

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Scientists ran an experiment to prove a super intelligent AI couldn’t be controlled

Scientists ran an experiment to prove a super intelligent AI couldn’t be controlled

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Control is an illusion, and historically the smartest species has always wiped out less capable species,  so people are worried that’s what AI could do to humanity.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...

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DeepMind’s AI learns the rules as it goes so it can conquer the real world

DeepMind’s AI learns the rules as it goes so it can conquer the real world

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The real world doesn’t always have rules, so if we want to create AGI then we need AI’s that can learn things as they go along.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....

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OpenAI debuts massive GPT-3 AI upgrade with over 175 billion parameters

OpenAI debuts massive GPT-3 AI upgrade with over 175 billion parameters

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The human brain has nearly 100 trillion synapses, OpenAI’s newest AI has 175 billion “synapses” so there’s a long way to go before the two are on parity, but it’s off to a great start.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future...

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DeepMind’s newest AI studies humans to exploit weaknesses in their strategies

DeepMind’s newest AI studies humans to exploit weaknesses in their strategies

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everyone has their weaknesses, now researchers have developed AI’s that can identify and exploit them, one day though these AI’s will be able to identify and exploit any human flaw, as well as flaws in other AI’s, for better and worse.   Interested in the Exponential...

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Our Algorithmic Society, the deadly consequences of unpredictable code

Our Algorithmic Society, the deadly consequences of unpredictable code

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With AI regulation so far behind the curve, and as our society and decision making becomes increasingly reliant on automated algorithms and not human decision making what happens when algo’s go bad?   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....

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DeepMind’s powerful AlphaZero AI makes the leap to quantum computing

DeepMind’s powerful AlphaZero AI makes the leap to quantum computing

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today’s Artificial Intelligence agents will one day evolve to run on super powerful quantum computers, and that evolution has begun.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A new study suggests Google DeepMind’s amazing game playing algorithm AlphaZero, that...

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Uber’s breakthrough problem solving AI learns by creating then solving its own problems

Uber’s breakthrough problem solving AI learns by creating then solving its own problems

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Solving problems is hard and requires a different set of skills – human skills. Now Uber’s AI is getting those same skills, but in an exponential way.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Imagine an Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

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Google gave an AI intuition, then it drove a race car without being taught

Google gave an AI intuition, then it drove a race car without being taught

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans and animals learn many things intuitively, like walking, and now researchers have found a way to embody this same trait within AI.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Animals are lucky, after all they’re born with innate...

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China unveils new neuromorphic chip as it aims for AI dominance

China unveils new neuromorphic chip as it aims for AI dominance

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of AI rests on two development tracks, the development of new software and new hardware, and both are powering ahead.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Back in the 90’s, if you remember those, seeing someone...

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An AI learned to surf and use tools after playing 500 million games of hide and seek

An AI learned to surf and use tools after playing 500 million games of hide and seek

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI researchers applied human evolutionary philosophies to train their AI, and witnessed a breakthrough that saw the AI’s create and use their own tools.   Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the early days of life on Earth,...

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Microsoft drops $1 Billion on OpenAI to fund Artificial General Intelligence development

Microsoft drops $1 Billion on OpenAI to fund Artificial General Intelligence development

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AGI is the point at which machines intelligence, and intellectual capabilities, match and exceed that of humans, bringing about the most significant change in human history.   Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Last year Google DeepMind released the world’s...

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Another AI “spontaneously evolves” and this time gains a number sense

Another AI “spontaneously evolves” and this time gains a number sense

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As we embed AI into every corner of our digital society we need to start asking hard questions about what happens when they “go beyond their programming” and “evolve” spontaneously.   Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! eXplore More. Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

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Artificial General Intelligence is here, DeepMind unveils its Impala AGI

Artificial General Intelligence is here, DeepMind unveils its Impala AGI

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The development of an AGI that can master tens, hundreds, and eventually thousands or millions of subjects is the “holy grail” of AI, and it will change every corner of society.   One of the most significant Artificial Intelligence (AI) milestones in history was quietly...

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Google has created a test to measure AI’s ability to reason

Google has created a test to measure AI’s ability to reason

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As advanced as today’s AI’s are they still can’t reason, and that’s what’s going to hold them, and us, back from realising the milestone that is Artificial General Intelligence.   Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become pretty good at completing specific tasks over the past couple...

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