Robots Driving Cars, AI Won't Build Your Engineering Team, and AGI in 3-5 Years
A few links and apps and news from the AI world.
Morning y’all!
We’re halfway through the week and there’s no stopping the advancement of the greatest technological innovation of… 2024.
Despite how amazing all of this really is there have been other breakthroughs that are just as impressive, if not more. I think of my iPhone and how amazing it really is to have a powerful computer in my pocket! I remember when we we’re lucky to be able to carry all of it in two loads — monitor and keyboard and tower and everything else!
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
Elon is closing out his lawsuit against OpenAI before a key court hearing. The games have begun and we’ll all get to see who knows how to play the (legal) game of chess.
Researchers from the University of Tokyo shared a new study exploring autonomous driving and using robots to control them. These bots were designed specifically to simulate and mimic human behavior.
Someone thinks we’ll have AGI in the next 3-5 years:
In summary – we’ve basically solved building world models, have 2-3 years on system 2 thinking, and 1-2 years on embodiment. The latter two can be done concurrently. Once all of the ingredients have been built, we need to integrate them together and build the cycling algorithm I described above. I’d give that another 1-2 years.
So my current estimate is 3-5 years for AGI. I’m leaning towards 3 for something that looks an awful lot like a generally intelligent, embodied agent (which I would personally call an AGI). Then a few more years to refine it to the point that we can convince the Gary Marcus’ of the world.
We’ll all get to see how close or how far this prognostication really is.
From StackOverflow:
AI is not coming to solve all our problems and write all our code for us—and even if it was, it wouldn’t matter. Writing code is but a sliver of what professional software engineers do, and arguably the easiest part. Only we have the context and the credibility to drive the changes we know form the bedrock for great teams and engineering excellence..
Their core idea is that generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you so you’ll still need the core components of team dynamics to make it all happen.
Adobe blew it recently with a TOS that offended a lot of folks, especially when it came to artist’s rights and training on customer data. They decided to fix those terms since the internet had an issue with it.
Mozilla Builders Accelerator, focusing on local AI models and applications.
Secant is an AI tutor for student support and grading assignments and more.
Afforai helps you collect, cite, and annotate papers and research with AI.
A simple tool for automating the captions for images for social posts. Simple idea that makes sense for folks who are doing this daily.
Thread is a AI-powered Jupyter Notebook built with React. That’s it.
Flexible, modern spreadsheets powered by AI to connect with your business data.
Ben Evans attempts to share some thoughts on building AI products that will actually work. There are a lot of inherent challenges though.
Apple’s artificial intelligence strategy in a nutshell. Give it a walk through.
Finally, California is taking AI legislation into its own hands. Go CA. And an open source screenshot app for you to try!
Have a great one.
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer