Stay Up-to-Date on Humanistic Artificial Intelligence! February Edition
TD Publishing’s Monthly Update on Artificial Intelligence.
TD Publishing, a company that provides artificial intelligence educational programs, offers a monthly newsletter sharing the latest advancements in artificial intelligence to keep non-tech professionals and students up-to-date.
Each monthly newsletter will provide 3-4 informative articles and podcasts, which are expected to take 30-60 minutes to read through. Below is the February edition, written by Craig Gordon, founder of Don’t Count Us Out Yet and co-founder of TD Publishing.
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Dear Readers,
If you are like me, you blinked and January 2024 was gone. And besides torrential downpours on the west coast where I live, wars are still being waged everywhere and some tech guy named Sam Altman, who is being sued by lots of creative types for stealing their written and creative data, is asking to raise $7 trillion. Evidently, life pretty much moves on with artificial intelligence still moving forward and changing reality as you read this.
Therefore, with so much new information in the AI sphere and most of us trying to make sense of what really is important and what is noise, here are our top new recent developments in AI.
1. I bet some of you have either started to create your own chatbots or at least know someone who has. Take a look at this piece below, which explains how to get the most out of your chatbot if you’re interested in building one. With this quick read, you will be much more effective in trying to make a chatbot just as interesting as a toy you talk to your friends about, just like my friends did in the early 1980s with personal computers.
2. At TD Publishing, we are currently revising the course we offer to CPAs and the alumni of universities we teach. One of the topics we discuss is about how music must be used for AI to really attain human-like intelligence.We also ask thought-provoking questions, such as “What emotions and characteristics AI needs to experience to attain human-like intelligence?” This next article, which is about how rhythm is a life chasing pattern to humans, convinced us this area needs to be worked on for advancing AI. Take a quick read and let us know if you agree.
3. A number of my associates are building their first chatbots, and one problem we often encounter when using search engines to build the chatbot is how to get current search information. Well, the Perplexity AI product is gaining momentum for this reason, including a few others as a substitute for using traditional search engines alone. Check it out below and see what you think.
4. In our previous December newsletter, we asked the question, “How is Google going to react to not being the top AI generative language product?” Well, we now know. They’ve taken action as Google Bard has turned into Google Gemini, and some people are starting to make claims that in certain areas this product is better than OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Of course OpenAI isn't just sitting around as competitors advance. With the support of Microsoft, here is its response with chatbot.
5. Finally, in January we talked about how trying to stay up-to-date on everything that is happening in the AI world is quite overwhelming. Not to mention trying to navigate through the redundancy and noise while reading hundreds of articles and listening to podcasts weekly. Therefore, we started to think about the 80/20 rule. By doing this, we could capture 80 percent of the knowledge with only 20 percent of the top pieces.
Some of you asked us what you can read to stay at the cutting edge if you want to go a bit beyond just our monthly newsletter. Well, here are our four favorite sources if you’re ready for a deeper dive on all things AI.
Andrew Ng's “The Batch” at DeepLearning
Andrew is one of the smartest in the AI profession. On his blog, he does an amazing job of staying at the cutting edge and interpreting what is going on. Although this blog may be harder to understand by non-tech professionals and students, it is really good and will give you a real pro-AI vantage point on what might come next.
On the other hand, Gary Marcus shares his views on AI and its potential dangers in his Substack newsletter, “Marcus on AI.” This is a must read for anyone trying to be impartial. He constantly gets himself and his friends in fights with the techno AI optimists and most times has really good points. Overall, this is a must-read newsletter to stay honest in what is going on in the AI world.
Our last choice is “One Useful Thing” by Ethan Mollick, who is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. I wish he was teaching at Lehigh University, because I would be buying him lunch once a month just to ask what he is currently thinking about on AI and how he is using it.
That’s it for February! Have a great rest of the month, and don’t fall for an AI-generated bot Valentine’s Day card... not even close to comprehending what romance is! We would love to hear any of your thoughts and comments.
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Best,
Craig, Jay, Jeffrey, Ariana and all our wonderful freelancers