AI Top-of-Mind for Nov 29
Top-of-mind, for those following Q*, ‘AI Explained’ put together a great video on the state of published research and where it is potentially heading. Well worth watching!
Some of this was also covered in an article penned by Conrad Gray in ‘Humanity Redefined.’ It provides a good introduction to the ‘Tree of Thoughts’ approach if you are not familiar. This is also covered in ‘The Pareto Investor’s’ ‘Unlocking the Power of Tree of Thoughts in Language Models.’ But the perspective in ‘A.I.: Who’s Driving’ by ‘Chief Executive’ is key:
Governing AI, like atomic energy, isn’t about the tech. It’s about the people. Whatever is happening right now in Silicon Valley deserves more attention from the whole business community. Waiting for the press release signaling that a new product launch dubbed “Trinity” promises to be “a real game changer”? That’s probably the wrong way to go.
Turning to policy, I’ve mentioned other agreements to regulate AI under consideration. ‘Guidelines for secure AI system development’ signed by 18 nations, though non-binding, is a step in the right direction. From the Reuters article:
“This is the first time that we have seen an affirmation that these capabilities should not just be about cool features and how quickly we can get them to market or how we can compete to drive down costs,” Easterly (the Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) told Reuters, saying the guidelines represent “an agreement that the most important thing that needs to be done at the design phase is security.”
Moving to the cloud, a great interview by Jon Furrier in ‘Substack’ with AWS’s CEo Adam Selipsky. I’d encourage you to read the complete article, including this observation:
“With all of the different directions that generative AI, and AI, are going to go in, the key characteristic that people need to have is adaptability,” Selipsky said in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE before AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. “AI will branch out in various directions, but when it does so simultaneously, being adaptive will be key to who wins.”
Along the same line, ‘Embedded’ looks at how the cloud is in fact democratizing Generative AI development. This despite the outsized role the likes of Microsoft and Google play in investments.
