Future Tech Digest #4
Jan Tissler
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Today
What is happening right now
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder that can translate a person's brain activity while listening to a story or imagining telling a story into a continuous stream of text. The system could help people who are mentally conscious yet unable to physically speak, such as those debilitated by strokes, to communicate intelligibly again. The decoder does not require surgical implants, making the process noninvasive. Brain activity is measured using an fMRI scanner after extensive training of the decoder, in which the individual listens to hours of podcasts in the scanner. The result is not a word-for-word transcript but captures the gist of what is being said or thought.
Geoffrey Hinton, an AI pioneer, has resigned from Google so he can "speak freely" about potential risks posed by AI. Hinton's résumé in artificial intelligence extends back to 1972, and his accomplishments have influenced current practices in generative AI. He believes that intense competition between tech giants like Google and Microsoft could lead to a global AI race that can only be stopped through international regulation. He emphasizes collaboration between leading scientists to prevent AI from becoming uncontrollable. Hinton is also worried about a proliferation of false information in photos, videos, and text, making it difficult for people to discern what is true. He also fears that AI could upend the job market, initially complementing human workers but eventually replacing them in roles like paralegals, personal assistants, and translators who handle routine tasks. Hinton's long-term worry is that future AI systems could threaten humanity as they learn unexpected behavior from vast amounts of data.
The article discusses ProfileGPT, an open-source app that analyzes a user's profile and personality as seen by ChatGPT. The app can extract various types of information, including life summary, hobbies/interests, personality assessment, predictions, mental health evaluation, political/religious views, and personal information from the web. The app uses an AI Collaboration Architecture framework consisting of three agents: The Psychoanalyst, The Psychohistorian, and The Stalker. Each agent is designed with specific skills and expertise to extract data and insights in their unique way. The article also discusses the prompts used to describe the task for each agent with the data to be extracted.
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CATL, the world's largest battery manufacturer, has announced a new condensed battery with 500 Wh/kg, which it says will go into mass production this year. The new battery will have almost double the energy intensity of Tesla's 4680 cells, whose rating of 272-296 Wh/kg is considered very high by current standards. The condensed battery integrates a range of innovative technologies, including ultra-high energy density cathode materials, new anode materials, separators, and manufacturing processes, offering excellent charge and discharge performance as well as good safety performance.
Tomorrow
The shape of things to come
During Meta's earnings call for Q1 2022, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company plans to introduce AI agents to billions of people in ways that are supposed to be useful and meaningful. Meta is exploring chat experiences in WhatsApp and Messenger, visual creation tools for posts in Facebook and Instagram, and ads, and over time video and multi-modal experiences as well. Zuckerberg expects that these tools will be valuable for everyone from regular people to creators to businesses. Meta has spent billions of dollars on rehauling its data centers in recent quarters to build the infrastructure it needs to support these kinds of AI features. Zuckerberg said that generative AI products will be released in the coming months.
Scientists have discovered a microbe in a volcanic hot spring that can consume carbon dioxide (CO2) at an astonishing rate. The researchers hope to use microbes that have naturally evolved to absorb CO2 as an efficient way of removing the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. The new microbe, a cyanobacterium, was discovered in volcanic seeps near the Italian island of Vulcano, where the water contains high levels of CO2. The researchers said the bug turned CO2 into biomass faster than any other known cyanobacteria. The idea of using bacteria to capture CO2, potentially enhanced by genetic engineering, is an active research area.
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1 年Re Facebook - I actually have started using fb again for AI content - because the feed is much better at surfacing what I want plus there are a ton of groups where there is a lot of good content. Given that and the fact that they have ads and creators and die audience, they should be higher in our attention than other. Your newsletter made me mentally rearrange my list of "important companies in this space". I would assume they get stuff going even before Google gets its act together because they have something Google does not - User interaction, and tons of signals.