Humanity Redefined - Weekly News Roundup - Issue #471
Weekly News Roundup - Issue #471Plus: Elon Musk withdraws the lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman; how nanopore sequencers were invented; a tooth-regrowing drug to be trialled in Japan; Mistral AI reaches $6B valuation; and more!Hello and welcome to Weekly News Roundup Issue #471! After WWDC 2024, the only thing the tech world is talking about is Apple Intelligence and what Apple brings to the generative AI revolution (or bubble, depending on your views). Apple Intelligence was supposed to be the topic for this week’s write-up, but the text about it grew to the point it needed its own article. It will go out a couple of hours after this week’s news roundup. In other news, Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman. Meanwhile, Mistral AI reached a $6B valuation, and François Chollet launched a $1 million contest to help create AGI. In robotics, a humanoid robot learned how to drive in Japan, and NATO funded a German startup building autonomous war robots. We will finish this week’s roundup with the story of how nanopore sequencers came to be and with the creation of the most detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain. I hope you enjoy this week’s selection! If you enjoy this post, please click the ❤️ button or share it. Do you like my work? Consider becoming a paying subscriber to support it For those who prefer to make a one-off donation, you can 'buy me a coffee' via Ko-fi. Every coffee bought is a generous support towards the work put into this newsletter. Your support, in any form, is deeply appreciated and goes a long way in keeping this newsletter alive and thriving. 🦾 More than a humanHumans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 6 Years 🔮 Future visions▶️ 12 Predictions for the Future of Technology | Vinod Khosla (9:31) Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, founder of Khosla Ventures, and self-proclaimed techno-optimist, shares his predictions for the future. He envisions a future of abundance where expertise and labour are nearly free, preventive medicine detects diseases much sooner, and we live in car-free cities, all powered by clean energy. 🧠 Artificial IntelligenceAI Will Become Mathematicians’ ‘Co-Pilot’ Elon Musk abruptly withdraws lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI raises $640M ▶️ Francois Chollet - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution (1:34:39) This is a fascinating conversation. François Chollet, an AI researcher at Google and the creator of Keras, a popular deep learning framework, introduces ARC—a memorisation-resistant benchmark designed to test AI models—and the ARC Prize, a $1 million competition to solve Chollet’s so far unbeaten test, launched to help in creating AGI. It is also a conversation about what intelligence and reasoning are, and the difference between generalisation and memorisation. Chollet also comments on the state of AI research, saying that OpenAI has pushed back AGI by 5-10 years due to closing down frontier research publishing. ▶️ Geoffrey Hinton - "Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?” (36:53) In this lecture, Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI and currently a strong advocate for AI safety, explains why he thinks large language models are intelligent. He claims that these models understand language just as humans do, citing the similarities between how large language models work and our current understanding of how the human mind functions. Hinton then goes on to discuss the dangers of AI and how to ensure it does not take control of humans and, consequently, wipe out humanity. ▶️ I Made a Neural Network with just Redstone! (17:22) Minecraft redstone engineers are crazy talented. They have built functioning calculators, displays, and even full computers within the game. This video documents one redstone engineer’s quest to build a compact neural network in Minecraft that can recognise handwritten digits, a task equivalent to writing a "Hello, world!" program. If you're enjoying the insights and perspectives shared in the Humanity Redefined newsletter, why not spread the word? 🤖 RoboticsNATO funds German startup building autonomous war robots This humanoid robot can drive cars — sort of New robotic gripper for automated apple picking developed 🧬 BiotechnologyDriving Toward Nanopores 💡TangentsGoogle helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of the human brain Thanks for reading. If you enjoyed this post, please click the ❤️ button or share it. Humanity Redefined sheds light on the bleeding edge of technology and how advancements in AI, robotics, and biotech can usher in abundance, expand humanity's horizons, and redefine what it means to be human. 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