Two articles that caught my attention today
Marcelo Salup
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There's a lesson here... and it's not linear
AI is learning what it means to be alive
A huge amount of people in LinkedIn deride or even hate higher education and degrees. Think about this:
In 1889, a French doctor named Francois-Gilbert Viault ?discovered a mysterious power of the human body: When it needs more of some crucial cells, it can make them on demand. 70 years later researchers found actual erythropoietin after filtering 670 gallons of urine. 50 years after that, biologists in Israel announced they had found a rare kidney cell that does exactly that. It’s called the Norn cell.
It took humans 134 years to discover Norn cells.
Last summer, computers in California discovered them on their own in just six weeks.
AI will be the most significant medical advancement of this decade, maybe century. The software used is one of several new A.I.-powered programs, known as foundation models, that are setting their sights on the fundamentals of biology. The models are not simply tidying up the information that biologists are collecting. They are making discoveries about how genes work and how cells develop.
This is true AI, written by true engineers and will help true doctors finally discover a cure for cancer or even, who knows, the common cold.
Higher education makes all of this possible. It gives people not only a vision but, more importantly, the means to carry out this vision.
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Stop being against higher education and AI. It’s dumb.
Xi Sticks to His Vision for China’s Rise Even as Growth Slows
I was a kid when the US “opened” China to the West. Nixon and Kissinger (Republicans, by the way) saw China as not only a huge market for the US, they had a vision of this huge dragon moving forward and thought it would be better to keep your finger on that pulse than fire breathing down your neck.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, believes his vision for technological dominance will keep powering the country’s ascent while the West recedes. Xi he told People’s Liberation Army officers to build up “strategic capabilities in emerging areas,” which, the officers indicated, included artificial intelligence, cyberoperations and space technology.
Since taking office in 2012, Mr. Xi has tightened the hold of the Communist Party on Chinese society. He has extended state management of the economy, expanded the security apparatus to extinguish potential challenges to party rule, and confronted Washington over technology, Taiwan and other disputes.
The Chinese leadership’s “mantra seems to be that ‘We’re not going to grow as fast as we used to, but we’re going to gain more leverage over trade partners by controlling critical parts of the global economy’”
Chinese leaders seem to believe that, whatever their problems, their Western rivals face worsening ones that will ultimately humble and fracture them.
Recent reports from institutes under China’s ruling party, military and state security ministry point to the rancorous polarization in the United States ahead of the next election. Regardless of who wins, Chinese analysts argue, American power is likely to remain troubled by political dysfunction.
Underestimate the power of China’s will at your own risk. And notice where they’re going: AI, cyber-security, space, and tech.
Stop being an isolationist. It's dumb.