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Have you ever had one of those stomach churning moments.
When you realise you have deleted (with no backup) the project you have been working on, and there is no way back.
Imagine if you could transport yourself back in time ...
... and talk to a Victorian. Someone who thinks Darwin is a disruptive thinker, and who is experiencing the Railways as a new transport method.
We all know AI works to please us, right?
In a recently published article in Science, reasarchers studied AI “sycophancy”, or the tendency of large language models (LLMs) to excessively agree with, flatter, or validate users, even when the user’s behavior is unethical, harmful, or socially inappropriate.
Is AI the answer to polarised views?
Extreme political views and negative feelings towards others who disagree politically have become a threat to current democracies.
Rent-a-human
What do you do if you are an AI Agent and you need a human to do a physical task for you?
Drugs giant Roche invests in Nvidia chips
Pharma giant Roche is adding a further 2,176 Nvidia GPUs to its internal “AI factory” which it says gives it the largest AI compute capacity of any pharmaceutical company.
AI takes on Cattle Herding
A startup, called Halter are in talks to raise $2bn in funding for their AI powered Cow collars and their deal is already oversubscribed.
AI generated music listened to by AI bots leads to a fraud conviction.
A North Carolina man, Michael Smith, pleaded guilty to running a large‑scale music streaming fraud scheme that used artificial intelligence and automated bot accounts to steal millions of dollars in royalties from major streaming platforms.
Where is will invest $1bn
The OpenAI foundation recently shared its strategy to invest at least $1bn
It isn’t what you have. It’s how you use it.
A recent large‑scale study on AI tutors shows how using AI differently, makes a difference.
Tech Entrepreneur designs cancer vaccine for his dog
With the help of AI Paul Conyngham developed a custom a mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog Rosie.
Your LLM is biased too.
Researchers in Munich set out to see whether 20 LLM's displayed well established cognitive biases that humans have. They selected 30 common biases and ran 30,000 tests to see how they did.
The Doctor is in.
Imagine a world where an AI agent can explain your lab results, diagnoses, and medical records, and provide more accurate, personalized answers to questions about your symptoms and medication.
OpenAI launches 5.4 and improves GDPVal to 83%
The new version of ChatGPT brings a new round of sophistication to how it can be used in an organisational context including and improved ability to create and edit spreadsheets, presentations, and documents.
Scammers are working smarter, not harder with AI
The AI isn't creating new weaknesses in humans, it is widening existing ones.
Is AI coming for my job? Not yet, but it will, by stealth
Anthropic release a report on "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence" this week.
Your organisations dirty secret
Somewhere in your organisation is a PC running DOS, or a mainframe running a Cobol application.
Open AI recruits consulting firms.
Open AI announced this week that the "limiting factor for seeing value from AI in enterprises isn’t model intelligence, it’s how agents are built and run in their organizations."
Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery?
Have you ever been tempted to copy someone elses homework, rather than do the work yourself?
The price of ethics
This has been a big week for the discussion of ethics, AI and the Military.