Work continues on the YES! children's series. Volume 2 is around half done with a working title of YES! Touching Dot, Touching People. This volume tackles the troubling issue of why people hurt each other. The science aspect, this time, is sociobiology and evolutionary psychology rather than quantum physics—a more challenging subject than the first volume. Additionally, an adult book around "balance the triangle" issues is in thought development around climate change and sustainability challenges. Staying busy.
- AI avatars for many different purposes: Scholar Creates AI-Powered Simulated Child (
futurism.com
)
- The continuing quest to advance robotic human analogs, in this case, expressive behaviors DeepMind’s GenEM uses LLMs to generate expressive behaviors for robots | VentureBeat
- As well in continuing hyper-speed AI development Google Deepmind proposes ‘self-discover’ framework for LLMs, improves GPT-4 performance | VentureBeat
- And here Creating Synthetic Consciousness Prompts: A Guide to Bridging AI with Human Cognition | LinkedIn
- Here Groq AI chip system goes viral and rivals ChatGPT, challenges Elon Musk’s Grok (
cointelegraph.com
)
- One of the more popular subjects this month was again exploring the idea of AI as a mirror of our collective consciousness The Medium of Generative AI as Collective Consciousness | by Michael Filimowicz, PhD | AI Filmmaking | Feb, 2024 | Medium
- "Applying a recent hypothesis about how the brain operates during sleep could improve the lifelong learning abilities of artificial intelligence." Human brain’s ‘temporal scaffolding’ inspires new AI approaches (
rochester.edu
)
- Text-to-video generative AI explodes on the scene OpenAI Sora Model Generates Photo Realistic Video from Text and Google Gemini Pro 1.5 Has 1+ Million Context Length |
NextBigFuture.com
- And mystifies OpenAI’s Sora Is a Total Mystery - The Atlantic
- And while lost in the general dazzle of AI, biotechnology remains enormously significant, is developing quickly, and is not to be ignored Multiomics Are The Next Step In Biotechnology -
Securities.io
- And here The Quest for a DNA Data Drive - IEEE Spectrum
- Here What does the future of bio-friendly materials look like? · TechNode
- And here Partially Synthetic Moss Paves the Way for Plants With Designer Genomes (
singularityhub.com
)
- This month's most popular discussion was about life as a new theory rose to be tested. "An MIT physicist has proposed the provocative idea that life exists because the law of increasing entropy drives matter to acquire lifelike physical properties." A New Physics Theory of Life | Quanta Magazine
- It's not often we get an Apple/Steve Jobs moment like the introduction of the iPhone. But Brain.ai
's ) interface promises just such a moment if they can pull it off. Be sure to watch the video at www.brain.ai
. I'll be surprised if you're disappointed. AI phone: Deutsche Telekom wants to free smartphones from apps | Deutsche Telekom.
And more in-depth here. With
Brain.ai
, generative AI is the OS | TechCrunch
- So, LLMs coming soon to a phone near you H2O AI releases Danube, a super-tiny LLM for mobile applications | VentureBeat
- Perplexity AI, one of the better flavors, has launched a decent daily news update podcast generated by its AI. Worth a review and listen. Discover Daily by Perplexity
AI, quantum computing, and robotics are the three great technology challenges and blessings of this current dizzying paradigm shift. Yes, there are so many others, but at least two of these three will certainly underlie much of the progress in so many of those others. This month also brought a fair amount of quantum-related news.
And so much more. Overall, another frenzied tech-tsunami month. Promise AND challenge.
Remember, we see threats before anything else. So, take deep breaths, consider the risks, and let's manage our threat responses. It goes a long way in this era of competing "culture wars." Groups worldwide are trying to thwart what "bad actors' intend. Find one and help if you're so inclined. We have hope, but I won't say it isn't tough.
Our challenge remains to balance that triangle of wired human behavior, evolving institutions, and godlike technologies. It's the only way I know that can take us into a human-successful future...
President Foundation for Sustainable Communitiesare
8 个月Thank you for your continuing "thought leadership" on these critical issues and remind us we make a difference in the choices we make. I read the article that effectively details a better future through a new economic and social manifesto! Excellent recognition of the human values and the balance you point out is essential! Great start to the new year!