The Art of the Impossible: Artificial Intelligence, Now and Beyond

Welcome to?The?Art?of?The?Impossible, a weekly newsletter where I unearth five pieces?of?content which I hope will both inspire?and?embolden you.

PODCAST

This week, I asked my followers on Twitter what was the best podcast episode they had listened to recently and there were some great responses here. As most of you know, I am a huge podcast fan and listen to episodes every day.

What are some of your favourites?

Talking of podcasts, Series 10 will be out soon. Subscribe wherever it is you get your podcasts from to be the first to hear it - it might be my best series yet!

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INTERVIEW

At the Sohn Investment Conference on May 9, 2023, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison spoke with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about Chat-GPT, AI, LLMs, RLHF, the risk of drawing parallels of inspiration from previous technologies, as well as the limitations of innovation.

BOOK

Famed biographer Walter Isaacson has a new book out later this year and this time, he has turned his attention to Elon Musk.

"An astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence."

When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was unrecognisable. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father...

For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, co-workers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: Are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?

Pre-order the book here.

WATCH

The great Andrew Ng interviews Professor Fei-Fei Li - they discuss her background, her work in AI, the past and present state of AI (and their vision for it), and some of the "audacious questions" still to be answered.

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Thank you for reading?the?newsletter?and?for listening to?the?podcast, and?If you enjoy them, please do share with your network - my goal is to have these stories reach as many as possible so that others can be inspired too.

Until next time...

Danielle