SurvAIval Insights #25_24

Good Saturday, my ro-bro fellas!

Fast weekly summary

• OpenAI appoints former National Security Agency (NSA) head to board. Nakasone, who led the NSA from 2018 to 2023, will join OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee. Interesting addition to the team, folks…

• Former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever Launches Company for Safe AI.

• Welcome the new GPT-4o competitor, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

My mini survAIval insight of the week

The enlightenment was an intellectual movement that took place in the 18th century. It was characterized by a focus on reason and science, individualism, and a belief in progress.

The intellectual response to this movement was: Humanism, Positivism, Impressionism, Realism, Darwinism, Romanticism, Modernism, Victorian era, etc. where the value and agency of human beings were the centre of attention.

Nowadays the focus is on efficiency, algorithms, and AI/automation.

I truly believe that the world will shift once again towards a more humanistic society, welcoming artists, philosophers, historians, and others with open arms.

There’s still hope for the future of humans!

The chart of the week

GenAI’s explosive growth is ‘cooling’ (Report by Lucidworks’ second annual Generative AI Global Benchmark study)

The report — which surveyed more than 2,500 business leaders around the world — found that only 63% plan to increase AI spending over the next year. Last year, that number was 93%. 

My News Picks

• Former NSA chief joins OpenAI board. OpenAI has appointed Retired US Army General Paul M. Nakasone to its board. Edward Snowden, questions the company's commitment to open and transparent AI development.

• New Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet surpasses ChatGPT and ads a new feature called artifacts. It excels at everything from visual reasoning to complex instructions.

• Indian election was awash in deepfakes – but AI was a net positive for democracy

• Microsoft’s all-knowing Recall AI feature is being delayed

• LinkedIn expands its AI job-hunting features for Premium subscribers

•  A virtual rat with an AI brain mimics real rodent movement.

My Video Picks

• Ilya Sutskever reveals his next move

•  Decoding and reconstructing brain activity through the use of AI

• She Built an AI Product Manager Bringing in Six Figures

Tools and Education

• Midjourney's new personalized image feature lets you generate images in your preferred style.

• Google Deepmind generates audio for silent videos.

• Runway just announced Gen-3 Alpha, their latest and greatest video generation model. Yes, another one.

I hope these insights, news, and tools help you prepare for the future!

Have a really nice weekend and week.

Stay kind.

Rafa TV

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