Stay Up-to-Date on Humanistic Artificial Intelligence! April 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 January 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,
Last night, right before I went to bed, I had the best customer support phone call I have ever had in my life. What a surprise! But why was it so good? Well, I can tell you some reasons, such as the ease of talking to the person handling the call, or the ability to quickly recognize what the problem was and provide a solution, but that doesn’t give you the full answer. In other ways, he felt like he was connected to me and wanted to solve that problem as much as I did. What a great way to go to bed!
This morning, I woke up and turned on some music. The song “April in Paris” began playing. Right away it brought me a big smile thinking of Paris, romance and spring. I wanted to go out, get coffee and conquer the world!
Now what does this have to do with artificial intelligence? Honestly, not very much. And out of the hundreds of articles about AI we read last month, I can’t really tell you there was one that might help me answer that question. At least until AI can touch my morality and soul like these two pieces did, as well as help with rational thinking. Can AI build the same connection I had with a customer support person or the “April in Paris” song? Not even close. But being an optimist, hopefully with help from non-tech professionals and students, it can move toward it.
Here are our top articles from last month, which we think you might enjoy!
Progress of Open-Source LLMs
First, we have talked about open-source generative AI large language models (LLM) versus closed-source LLMs, which are owned by governments and profitable companies where we don’t really know what is “under the hood” and worry about it. And, to date, open-source LLMs have materially lagged development in comparison closed-source LLMs. However, last month, there seemed to be some closing of this gap. The following piece is worth a read as it explains how open-source LLMs can develop trust and be verified much easier. Do you hear this CPAs? This is a natural way to get involved and give a seal of approval. One note of importance here: China seems to have jumped ahead of our for-profit approach in the western world in regards to open-source LLMs.
Workflow of Generative AI Languages
Next, generative languages were invented to learn by looking at realms of data and mimicking that data. It’s hard to have real creative or scientific breakthroughs this way. For example, AI is great at creating a piece of music, but far from creating a new genre, such as hip-hop music. Therefore, we either have to create new ways to use the existing process or use a new process. As expected, both of these methods showed up in articles we read last month. Take a look at Andrew Ng’s thoughts on agent workflow… Similar to how science and math problems can be cut down to more manageable issues to solve, agent workflow seems to do that for AI.
The Race to AI: Apple and Walmart
Keep those two previous ideas in the back of your mind as they need more work, but meta learning neural networks and alpha geometry using synthetic data are two potential next generation languages for AI. Like we said, no rush here, but remember the concepts.
Enough of the theory stuff! Here are two applications that have real world impacts. First, does Walmart really present a challenge to Google and Amazon? We never thought it did, until we read this article…
Everyone has been focusing on Apple and its products becoming mature, as well as how it’s starting to lose share in one of its biggest markets, China. However, Tim Cook keeps talking about AI and Apple’s approach being announced soon. Here is a possible way Siri by Apple might leap to the front of the AI products soon.
That’s it for this month! Whether you are reading this in Paris or anywhere else, may you have a great April 2024! Please help us get non-tech professionals and students involved in AI thinking and development by passing this along to any associates or friends who might be interested.
Our very best,
Craig, Jay, Jeffrey, Ariana and the TD Publishing Staff
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