OpenAI’s conversational ChatGPT AI is over confident but otherwise brilliant
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly people can type text into an AI and the AI will auto-generate all kinds of content, from articles and scientific papers to code and even drugs … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Google now sees a time when coding will be automated, rolls out AlphaCode
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Google can now see a time when coding is automated and human programmers “solve harder challenges.” 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. As I’ve been...
Inspired by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 biotech labs are now using generative AI to create new drugs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting better at creating and innovating all manner of things – and now it’s proteins and drug treatments. 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...
Scientists built the largest AI supercomputer yet to create brain scale AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We’re conditioned to think that computer chips should be small, but a supercomputer made from chips the size of dinner plates is breaking records. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
From AI lawyers to AI judges courts are embracing tech for better and worse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What would happen if your AI lawyers case was heard by a biased AI judge? And other questions noone has answers to yet … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
The US Navy asks for massive drone swarms to overcome future adversaries
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine trying to stop thousands of kamikaze drones – it’d be difficult to impossible which is why the US military wants them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Creators used AI to generate endless podcasts of Herzog and Zizek talking together
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What happens when AI generates most of our content – including podcasts? It changes entertainment, society, and our ability to 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,...
Shutterstock to start selling AI-generated art and compensate human artists
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If AI can create the images, videos, and content you need then why do you, or Shutterstock, need human artists and photographers? Clue… you don’t, and that’s freaking people out. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Google’s democratic AI re-distributes wealth better than politicians
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There’s alot of conversation about the best way to reduce global wealth inequality and it looks like AI might be better at it than humans … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
Scientists have created a new smart material that’s more AI than material
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ability to use algorithms to create “Architectural Materials” that behave like and mimic artificial intelligence, but in physical form, could revolutionise materials. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
The White House publishes its first Bill of AI Rights
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Decades after AI became a “thing” no government has any real idea of how to regulate its development and that’s an issue. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Privacy advocates cry foul after WEF publishes plans for personal carbon tracking
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Some people want to know what their carbon footprint is, and we have the technology to track it, but the initiative’s seen as another major privacy invasion by some. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Google’s Text-to-Image AI comes out swinging to create great synthetic images
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Synthetic content made by AI will put many creators out of jobs, but it will also democratise access to content creation for everyone … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
First of a kind study shows humans and AI are better together when it comes to work
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We hear all the time how AI and robots will replace all our jobs but not how it will help us become super humans at work, this is a great experiment … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with...
Meta’s AudioGen AI generates convincing sounds from just text
WHY THIS MATTERS OM BRIEF Within the decade alot more of the content you consume will be made by AI, and after that it could be almost all of it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Fake Joe Rogan interviews fake Steve Jobs in this new AI generated podcast
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The creation of content is increasingly being automated using advanced AI and this is just another example of how in the future creators will have to compete with the machines. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Soon you’ll be able to measure blood pressure with just a selfie
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are getting closer to the time when our smartphones become tricorders and this is just another step in that direction. 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,...
AI generated games are starting to appear on Steam
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting better at creating all kinds of content, whether it be from text or audio inputs, or whether it’s from scratch and this is just another example gaining momentum. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
AI finally aces motion capture without all the mocap gadgets
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Motion capture is going to be even more important in the future, just think content creation, healthcare, sports tracking, Metaverse avatars, and this breakthrough makes it much easier. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
An AI just aced a university maths course for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s often said that “maths” underpins everything in the known universe and AI is getting better and better at mastering it. 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,...
