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, ...
This AI can tell what you’re typing just by listening
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is a new way to invade people’s privacy and hack into systems, and it’s quite innovative. 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. We’re seen...
DeepMind’s robots are learning from the internet with ChatGPT brains
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are always finding new ways to train robots in new ways, and when it comes to create general purpose robots this is one of the most effective. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Amazon starts using AI to summarise reviews and save shoppers time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF How much time do you spend reading all those reviews? Well, now AI can summarise them all for you. 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....
An AI just discovered three new anti-ageing senolytic compounds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is very good at trawling through data and modelling scenarios at speed, and that’s going to accelerate everything from drug discovery and beyond. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Anthropics Claude can now read an entire book in less than a minute
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI already ingests information fast, but now it can detect changes in that information even 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. Anthropic says it has...
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...
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...
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...
Predicting cyber attacks is the new cyber defense as Forta predicts $200 Ml Euler crypto hack
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Its’ possible to watch data on the dark web and from other sources to predict who’s going to be the next cyber victim and the tech’s getting better … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
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...
New algorithms save lives by taking seconds to calculate future Tsunami impacts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Currently it takes half an hour to calculate what regions will be worst hit by a Tsunami by which time it’s too late to evacuate people, now it takes one second. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
This new ultrasonic sensor detects gas leaks underground to make pipelines safer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Trying to find, monitor, and fix ancient pipes is hard in every industry, but it’s getting easier. 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. While it...
AI makes silicon level Trojans embedded in computer chips easy to ID
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We often think of cyber attacks as just being “software” but hardware can be infiltrated to, now we can detect hardware exploits easier. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Hackers inject Trojans and Ransomware into open source AI models to hack you
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF This is a completely new kind of attack that generally can’t be detected, and it’s only the beginning. 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. In...
Morgan Stanley starts deploying ChatGPT for 16,000 financial advisors
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By using ChatGPT to augment their human workers Morgan Stanley hopes to give its staff access to expertise and knowledge that was previously out of their reach. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
Scientists are using AI to dream up amazing new unnatural enzymes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Enzymes are crucial to all living things and to many human processes and activities, so revolutionising how we create them will change the world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Researchers used a quantum computer to invent a new cooling material
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers will one day help us invent and design new things, from materials and drugs, to entire systems, in seconds thereby rapidly accelerating the rate of global innovation and change. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
Thanks to AI your WiFi can now sense when you’re struggling to breathe
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Often some of the best breakthroughs, but also the oddest in terms of “privacy invasion” come from odd sources … 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...
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...
