AI Top-of-Mind for Dec 6
Now in December, it is the time for end of year summaries. The first from ‘The Information’ on web volume for the different chatbots. Big numbers, but no surprises.
Next up is a ‘CNN’ article on the top Wikipedia searches. Also, as expected. The top 5:
· ChatGPT, 49,490,406 page views
· Deaths in 2023, 42,666,860
· 2023 Cricket World Cup, 38,171,653
· Indian Premier League, 32,012,810
· Oppenheimer (film), 28,348,248
For those keeping track, the Barbie film was #13.
Speaking of chatbots, ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is said to be readying its own custom GPT tools, much like OpenAI. What I didn’t know before reading this is that OpenAI’s tools are not available in either Mainland China or Hong Kong.
More on the creative front, David Litwin in ‘Medium’ speaking to Leonardo’s new Image Guidance feature and comparing it to Midjourney. Pretty amazing stuff!
Turning to the public sector, ‘The Daily Star’ reports on advances in incorporating AI into emergency response for effectiveness. From the article:
“When a human is looking at an (ECG) tracing, we’re probably looking at several dozen different things we may recognize. … A computer is able to look at hundreds and it’s able to do that within minutes,” Martin-Gill said.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its subsets like machine learning are changing how first responders do their jobs, through robotics, speech recognition and advanced algorithms.
And lastly, on predictions, Yann LeCun, chief scientist at Meta, with a conservative view as to when AI will become more intelligent than humans. From the ‘CNBC’ article:
Meta’s chief scientist and deep learning pioneer Yann LeCun said he believes that current AI systems are decades away from reaching some semblance of sentience, equipped with common sense that can push their abilities beyond merely summarizing mountains of text in creative ways.
His point of view stands in contrast to that of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who recently said AI will be “fairly competitive” with humans in less than five years, besting people at a multitude of mentally intensive tasks.
