Stay Up-to-Date on Humanistic Artificial Intelligence! June 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. Below is the June edition, written by Craig Gordon, founder of Don’t Count Us Out Yet and co-founder of TD Publishing.
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Hello everyone! We are almost halfway through 2024 following developments in artificial intelligence. At this point, Al is starting to risk a full power start in its development progress, but is it really the time to do this?
Gary Marcus, one of our favorite experts on where Al and generative languages really are right now, posted two brilliant pieces on the current state of AI, including thoughts on how general artificial intelligence will advance by 2027.
A second piece by Marcus questions if artificial intelligence is making significant new breakthroughs or just extensions on what exists now.
Should we really go full speed ahead in new advancements without breakthrough on issues, such as hallucinations and qualifications of data being used instead of just mimicking? These are some thoughts for all non-tech professionals to ponder, but with that in mind, let’s highlight what might be useful to you readers based on what’s happened in the last few months.
We have read over 20 artificial intelligence books in the past year, and we now have a new recommendation for you. If you are looking for just one book to read to start really understanding artificial intelligence, read “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI” by Ethan Mollick. His book provides useful information on how to live and work with Al right now. We love his four rules on using Al today, especially the assumption that the Al your are working with right now will be the worst one as more and more advancements come along. For us it was a quick read, and now for you CPAs out there, here is a real review on some general prompts you can use.
We also have some prompts for small accounting firms to use to compete with the bigger firms, as well as pieces on accounting firms sharing how they use Al. Send us a quick email to jay@tdfactfind.com if you would like us to forward these pieces to you!
For lawyers, below is a note on how Microsoft Copilot can be used in your legal workflow. This is a must-read if you want to make sure you aren’t at a competitive disadvantage to those who are already using it.
Finally, here is one note on major breakthroughs regarding general Al, which is about how Al might develop the sense of smell. Once Al can perform all human senses, such as smell, taste and touch, it will be very close to replicating human information instead of just mimicking data.
We are keeping an eye on the following.
Again, Ethan Mollick’s book is well worth reading, so here is a link. We would love your thoughts and feedback if you give it a read!
Two products we have been using more and more in our research and writing over the past month have been Perplexity and Claude. Claude in many situations has given us writing with its generative language that seems better than OpenAl’s ChatGPT or Google Gemini right now. We know many more advancements in other generative languages are coming in the rest of 2024, but if you asked us for one model to experiment with for writing, we would definitely recommend Claude. Perplexity has really improved with Perplexity Pages, which can be used for both research and writing. The two videos below break down how to use Perplexity if you want to try it out!
We are currently in the full power and big risk part of Al development. There are plenty of moves to advance forward with lots of risk, and we hope to keep you up-to-date on everything monthly. Enjoy the start of summer 2024!
Best regards,
Craig, Jay, Jeffrey and Ariana for the TD Publishing Crew