Intelligent Automation Newsletter #175

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This week’s 5 top stories you can't miss:

1?? [Artificial?General?Intelligence] OpenAI's boss Sam Altman thinks we'll have super-smart AI (called AGI) by 2025, which is way sooner than most people think possible. Here's what you need to know:

• Most AI experts think Altman is being too optimistic - they say we probably won't have AGI until around 2060. They point out there are still big problems to solve, like teaching AI common sense and how to learn from experience like humans do.
• OpenAI just got a huge amount of money - $6.6 billion - from big tech companies like Microsoft and Nvidia. This shows that even though Altman's timeline seems ambitious, major companies believe in what OpenAI is doing.
• Here's something weird: Even though AGI would be a huge deal (it's basically AI that can think like humans), Altman says it won't change society much at first. A lot of people disagree with him on this, since an AI that can think like humans could change everything.

2?? [Screening] A team in Japan has created a cool new AI tool that can check if you have high blood pressure or diabetes just by taking a quick video of your face and hands - no needles or pressure cuffs needed!

Here are the key points:

• It's super accurate - gets blood pressure right 94% of the time, which is about as good as regular blood pressure cuffs
• It's fast - even a 5-second video works pretty well, getting it right 81% of the time
• It's easy to use - they want to put it in phones and mirrors someday so people can check their health at home without going to the doctor

3??[AI Music] There's a big debate happening in music right now about AI-created songs and awards. Two different cases show how complicated this is getting:

• On one side, The Beatles' "Now and Then" made history by becoming the first AI-helped song to get Grammy nominations. The AI was used to clean up John Lennon's old recording - kind of like super-powered noise cancellation.
• On the flip side, an AI-made Drake song called "Heart on My Sleeve" was rejected by the Grammys because it used fake Drake vocals that weren't legally approved, even though a real person wrote the song.
• This is creating new rules in music: you can use AI to help clean up or restore real recordings (like The Beatles did), but you can't use AI to copy someone's voice without permission.

4?? [Simulation] MIT has created a new AI system called LucidSim that's changing how we train robot dogs. Instead of learning in the real world, these robots learn in computer-generated environments - kind of like a very advanced video game - and they're doing amazingly well!

Here are the key points:

• The robots learned to do tricky tasks like jumping over obstacles and chasing balls with 88% success - way better than the old way of training (which only worked 15% of the time)
• The system uses ChatGPT to create thousands of different training scenarios with different weather and lighting
• The really impressive part? These robots never saw the real world during training, but they can still perform great in it using just a regular camera

5?? [Agents] OpenAI is getting ready to release something pretty exciting - an AI that can use a computer by itself to get things done. Think of it like a virtual assistant that can actually click around and complete tasks for you, not just chat about them.

Here are the key points:

• OpenAI is calling this AI "Operator" and plans to let developers test it first, possibly starting in January
• They're not alone - Anthropic (with 'Computer Use') and Google (with 'Jarvis') are working on similar AI agents
• This could be the next big jump in AI tech, especially since making language models better is getting harder and more expensive

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