Ready for Holiday Cocktail Convos? Use These Artificial Intelligence Pointers
A few "cocktail tidbits" for holiday season small talk.
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If you are like us at Don’t Count Us Out Yet, it seems we just blinked a couple times and here we are at the end of 2022… wow!
We launched our Don’t Count Us Out Yet newsletter in March to help the millions of non-tech professionals and students out there start to understand the huge changes in science, technology and medicine. We don’t want to leave this information to “experts” alone to make decisions for all of us, and we promised to do this in an easy to understand, sometimes humorous, way.
Well, soon we will begin the holiday season with Thanksgiving and parties and dinners, so we want to make sure our readers are ready to talk about these trends in ways many others aren’t even aware of.
Artificial Intelligence, being one of the six areas we cover, is changing very fast. So we created a few “cocktail tidbits” that might keep some of your guests interested in the topic and perhaps more up-to-date on what is happening.
1. If your friends haven’t heard the terms Generative Artificial Intelligence, Dall-E-2, MidJourney or Stable Diffusion, they will soon… especially if they work in the interior design or architecture business world.
Artificial Intelligence processes can now do for images what they have done with text. Soon mathematical principles will be applied to both text and images just like they are with numbers now. Think about how that opens up a huge new way of thinking. Wondering what Sequoia, one of the largest venture capital firms, thinks about this? Take a look.
2. Recent advantages in Quantum Computers mean we will probably see the first few marketed to the world in 2025 and be in the mainstream by 2030, much faster than most expect. Now imagine applying that hardware power, which can process what it takes the best supercomputer today thousands of man years to do in less than an hour with AI processes that learn by themselves. The era of super AI intelligent learning is very close.
3. The biggest fear of most humans concerning AI processes is that the smarter machines will take over as it becomes harder and harder to compete with them. But what if we got this reasoning all wrong? What if AI is really more of a collaborative effort with humans?
Usually it takes us 2-3 reads of the Stanford’s Human Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute articles to understand it. However, this article was simple enough for us to get right away, and the benefits will be enormous if this is true. Thank you Hope Reese!
4. Finally, people in many different industries are using AI-powered text approaches to help them write, research and present ideas in new ways. GPT-3 has been on of the big leaders opening this area.
Rumors are starting to service that GPT-4, which is expected to be 500 times more powerful than GPT-3, will be released in the not too distant future (six months or less). Will it be 500 times more usable?
We hope we have given you enough food for thought on AI to make you a big hit in the 2022 holiday circuit and perhaps you learned a bit yourself. If not, you can always go back to asking if the turkey is pasture-raised instead of factory produced, which leads to less cooking time, more flavor and is better for the environment. We will be trying our first one this year!
Best,
Craig for the Don’t Count Us Out Yet Team