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...
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...
To beat Microsoft Google bakes a ton of new AI productivity tools into its app suite
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Microsoft and OpenAI have landed a body blow to Google, and the company’s now desperately trying to catch up with its rivals. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Googles newest AI can create all kinds of music from text prompts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In short if you can talk or text you can now use AI to generate everything from content to products as creativity gets democratised. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
The original company behind MidJourney has just launched its generative video Beta program
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF I’ve been talking about generative video for almost a decade, and it’s now getting better, albeit slowly. 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. Runway, the Creative...
Google launches BARD its ChatGPT rival and sees $170 Billion vanish
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the race for AI dominance Google released BARD to compete with ChatGPT but major errors in the demo caused Google’s share price to plummet. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Google steps up it’s AI text to image game to fight off the competition
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Google has a fantastic AI bench, but it’s being outgunned and out marketed by you know who and that’s freaking them out. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
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...
In a world first scientists used AI and a quantum computer to simulate an actual wormhole
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Who wouldn’t love to jump between blackholes to travel between dimensions and across time? 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. Wormholes have been a science...
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...
US Government to start giving IOT devices a cyber security rating from 2023
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most IOT connected devices have little to no security which means they can be hacked, abused and used, so this rating hopes to solve that and raise IOT security awareness. 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...
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...
Google trials new home robots that do your bidding and your housework
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI gets more robust and better at handling everyday tasks Google is setting its sights on your home as their next frontier. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Top Google AI expert goes public claiming his AI is sentient then gets fired
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What is sentience? So far AI is getting better at copying and mimicking human behaviours and skills, but to claim one is sentient is another level … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses...
Quantum computers are already becoming awesome at simulating chemistry
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Everything in our world is based on chemistry and chemicals, and quantum computers that can create new compounds and materials in seconds will revolutionise everything. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Google Earth’s new upgrade is a 37 year timelapse of the entire Earth
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our planet changes all the time, and now you can see exactly how it’s changing and the impact we’re having on our world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Satellites are doing...
A Google AI just designed a computer chip as well as a human engineer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI has come full circle – designing new types of AI computer chips that accelerate the development of new AI’s … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. AI has finally come full...
Google’s Chrome update uses AI to change privacy and the rules of the web
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to our online and offline activites privacy is at the top of most people’s minds, and now Google are embedding Federated AI to try to redress the balance. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
This AI created its own lesson plans to learn faster then smashed other AI’s out the park
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Noone learns in the same way, but optimising lesson plans for students as well as AI’s, would help all of us learn new skills faster. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The...
