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AI job displacement
Researchers at Brookings have been looking deeper into the ability of the US population to adapt to the inevitable AI displacement. It is fascinating reading.
Are we cognitively surrendering to AI?
A fascinating paper by the team at the Wharton Behavioural Lab, on how our brains are being shaped by the accessibility of AI.
Keeping a Tomato Plant Alive
This is one of those wholesome, expensive as as test, but very scalable uses of AI.
Claude Sabotage Risk Report
If your child was to come home with a school report that read something along the lines of ...
How does AI impact human relationships
A team at Princeton have set about researching how the use of AI Companion Chatbots impacts human relationships.
Onboard your 'Agents' like your people.
Imagine a world where you can onboard your AI agents, just like your people, with the right policies, guardrails, permissions and performance reviews.
Creating new materials (the physical kind)
MIT researchers in the field of Materials Science and Engineering have been using AI to create libraries of theoretical materials that could help solve all kinds of problems.
Is your LLM your new competitor?
If you are a software company, selling for example legal services, investing heavily in AI solutions, then there is a good chance that you woke up with a headache yesterday and the sense that your market might disappear overnight.
An Essay from Dario
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published 'The Adolescence of Technology,” an essay that lays out what he sees as the biggest dangers of AI, from bioterrorism and autonomous weapons to mass job loss and AI-powered dictatorships.
Is AI coming for your job?
Microsoft published research in December, highlighted the Top 40 jobs they thought were are risk of being replaced by AI.
Wikipedia licenses its content
On Jan 15, Wikipedia's owner confirmed that it has agreed licensing arrangements with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon. It had previously agreed licensing with Google back in 2022, along with Perplexity and Mistral AI.
Anthropic create an incubator lab
In January, Anthropic (Claude) announced the opening of their incubator lab 'a team focused on incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude’s capabilities.'
A network for AI Agents
Imagine what would happen if AI agents created their own Reddit and started chatting to each other, creating subforums and building communities with common beliefs.
The Widening AI Value Gap
Back in September, BCG published their 'The Widening AI Value Gap' report, to highlight what the winners and losers in the race to be AI native were doing, what was working and what wasn't.
When the past has hidden depths
If you have ever dug through your phone photo album looking for something, you can appreciate the work the the European Space Agency did recently.
AI in Schools, Good or Bad
The Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education embarked on a yearlong global study into AI in schools.
Can AI predict the day you die?
This article by Rebecca George is an emotional read. It charts the journey of her fathers demise, and death due to an incurable brain tumor.
Utah tests AI for autonomous prescription renewals
A first in the medical field, the State of Utah is giving patients with chronic conditions a faster, automated way to renew medications.
Why context graphs might be the next big thing
A 'context graph' explains WHY something happened.