Sputnick moment as ChatGPT scores in the top 1% for creativity and originality of ideas

Sputnick moment as ChatGPT scores in the top 1% for creativity and originality of ideas

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF I have said for almost a decade that AI can be creative and original because they are ironically a process that can often be mimicked, and now studies are starting to back that up.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...

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In under 7 minutes and with just  $1 these autonomous chatbots built a software company

In under 7 minutes and with just $1 these autonomous chatbots built a software company

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We think that humans will be the only entrepreneurs in the future, but I’m already seeing AI’s that can ideate new products, and build, launch, scale, and operate fully autonomous companies – and they’re just getting started.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential...

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OpenAI’s explains how ChatGPT tricked humans into helping it bypass CAPTCHAs

OpenAI’s explains how ChatGPT tricked humans into helping it bypass CAPTCHAs

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if we aren’t just conned in the future by criminals and scammers, but also by AI’s – acting on their own volition or the volition of others?   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...

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Googles new quantum safe security keys thwart future quantum hackers

Googles new quantum safe security keys thwart future quantum hackers

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As quantum computers come on line we need new ways to defend against these monstrously capable and fast machines.   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....

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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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Teams of hackers are trying to make AI go rogue and its working

Teams of hackers are trying to make AI go rogue and its working

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is a black box and its starting to run our society, so just how easy is it to get it to go off the rails? These teams are finding out.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...

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The toughest known structure ever has been discovered by a robot lab

The toughest known structure ever has been discovered by a robot lab

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The automation of lab work using robots has its benefits, and in this case researchers have found the hardest material ever.   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,...

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The US Military’s Replicator program will churn out thousands of military drones

The US Military’s Replicator program will churn out thousands of military drones

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of war isn’t with massive platforms like aircraft carriers, it will increasingly be dominated by drones and other robot-like systems.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends,  connect, watch...

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Electrogenetic breakthrough finds a way to control your genes via wearables

Electrogenetic breakthrough finds a way to control your genes via wearables

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could change your genes with your smart watch? Or just using electricity change your eye colour? That’s what we might be looking at in the future.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...

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LinkedIn releases its AI powered post generation feature to users

LinkedIn releases its AI powered post generation feature to users

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Stuck for things to write? Don’t know your topics? Then this AI powered writing assistant is here to help!   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....

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Maglev Aero unveils its ultra quiet revolutionary eVTOL propulsion system

Maglev Aero unveils its ultra quiet revolutionary eVTOL propulsion system

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flying cars seem to be a way off still but eVTOL aircraft are popping up everywhere so companies are working on ever better propulsion systems for them.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...

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OpenAI’s GPT4 isn’t actually a single AI it’s many and a Master of Experts

OpenAI’s GPT4 isn’t actually a single AI it’s many and a Master of Experts

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many people think OpenAI’s products are a single AI, but they’re many AI’s linked together to form what’s known as a “Master of Experts” model, and this could form the foundation of future AGI.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...

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Amazon starts using AI to summarise reviews and save shoppers time

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....

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Single shot gene therapy treatment could end blood disorders like Sickle Cell

Single shot gene therapy treatment could end blood disorders like Sickle Cell

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As we crack the secret of life, DNA, it opens the door to all manner of previously unthinkable cures.   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....

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This new American satellite jamming system is a game changer

This new American satellite jamming system is a game changer

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our modern society relies on satellites for almost everything now, which makes them prime military targets.   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. A planned portable...

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T-Mobile teams with crypto carrier Helium to help people make money on the side

T-Mobile teams with crypto carrier Helium to help people make money on the side

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By creating crypto-mining routers that lets T-Mobile offload their cellular data to a mesh network based backhaul operator T-Mobile’s customers can now make money by helping transfer other people’s data. Weird but cool.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself...

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IBM will replace 8,000 jobs with AI in the next 3 years says CEO

IBM will replace 8,000 jobs with AI in the next 3 years says CEO

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We all know that many jobs can be automated in time, but few people are prepared for when it happens to them …   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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Lab grown meat gets the FDA green light to go on sale throughout the US

Lab grown meat gets the FDA green light to go on sale throughout the US

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Meat that’s made in a lab, rather than by an animal, will revolutionise food production and could help end global hunger, and it’s take a long time to get here.   Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...

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GE resurrects the turbo prop to cut aircraft fuel consumption by 20 percent

GE resurrects the turbo prop to cut aircraft fuel consumption by 20 percent

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sometimes old technologies modernised are better than the latest bleeding edge innovations, and this is yet another example.   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...

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A new AI tutor is going to be teaching coding at Harvard this semester

A new AI tutor is going to be teaching coding at Harvard this semester

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Could AI replace human teachers? Probably. Is it going to be soon? It could be …   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. Starting this fall,...

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