AI Top-of-Mind for Nov 30
Top-of-mind is the latest on the chatbot scene, with Amazon releasing their ‘Q’ for AWS. Notably, it is focused on customization and corporate users, and is positioned as a rival to Microsoft’s Copilot or Google’s Duet AI with integrations that include Salesforce and Jira. Also from AWS, the release of Titan ‘multimodal’ AI image models and generators.
On policy, from ‘Bloomberg,’ more about the recent AI executive order and the requirement to address the following areas: hiring of AI and STEM workers, worker displacement, workplace monitoring, and employee well-being. From the order:
One significant concern of AI use is the potential to replace work tasks currently performed by humans. The EO requires that, by April 27, 2024, the DOL will issue a report evaluating how federal agencies could support workers displaced by technology advancements.
A positive impact of AI on creativity. ‘The new nature of creativity + AI: Bring it’ looks at how the technology cuts down on the time spent on menial tasks, leaving time for true creativity. From the article:
But AI can do more than just prepare pictures — it can help us surface new ideas. No matter how wide our own individual frames of reference, our personal knowledge will never be able to compete with what is available to a large language model. Because of this, one of the things AI does well is help find ever more ways to connect our ideas, concepts and goals, creating an ever-widening funnel of opportunities to achieve our creative goals.
Also the artistic front, better ways to alter parts of images with a ‘lasso’ like feature, this time from Midjourney. From the article:
And a good sizzle reel covering Pika 1.0 capabilities and a take on the decline of Stack Overflow. Was AI to blame?
