News

Labour shortages in Japan see rise in AI Robots: the adoption of AI driven robots in Japan is moving apace. Faced with terrible demographics (too many old people, not enough young workers) many industries in Japan are turning to robots to help solve the looming crisis. Read more here.

AI creating a liars dividend in this election cycle: a report in the Washington Post has claimed that deepfakes are not only bad when they appear, but allow legitimate news feeds to fall prey to deepfake claims creating a ‘Liars Dividend’. Find out more here.

Demand for AI chips leads OpenAI chief to seek huge funding: Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI is seeking to raise in excess of $10 billion dollars to build semiconductor fabrication plants in partnership with TSMC to ensure continuity of any ever more demanding supply. Read about it here.

And so it begins: 2024 election season has had it’s first reported deepfake called out as President Biden apparently used a messaging service to call democrats and urge them not to vote in the primaries in New Hampshire this week. Find out more here.

WHO warns of dangers of AI in poorer countries: the World Health Organisation has warned that generative AI, despite having great promise for medical advances, could be dangerous in poorer countries if only trained on first world data or poorly regulated. Read about it here.

Tool

This week has seen me do some research into sustainable construction materials. I was recommended to try a GPT called Scholar AI which proved fantastic. It has been trained on over 200 million research papers and books and as such is a fantastic resource for researching absolutely anything,

Well worth a try. I managed to take myself off down some very interesting rabbit holes. All replies are cited and sourced so that you can confirm the accuracy of the response

Prompt

Carrying on the theme of Scholar AI, it seems that GPT’s are now taking the place of sophisticated prompt engineering - it’s now built into the tool. In my sustainable construction material example above, I asked the simplest of questions and got the type of response that would have taken a much more nuanced prompt to get only a few months ago. This is an encouraging trend for AI’s more widespread adoption. Here is my simple query and a small part of the answer received:

As you can see even from this snippet, the answers were full, and sources were provided with links. I will be keeping this one on my favourites list. Great for a deep dive into almost any subject.