“‘What you really want,’ he told MIT Technology Review, ‘is just this thing that is off helping you.’ Altman, who was visiting Cambridge for a series of events hosted by Harvard and the venture capital firm Xfund, described the killer app for AI as a ‘super-competent colleague that knows absolutely everything about my whole life, every…
China’s Alipay tests AI assistance within its shopping app
“China-based Ant Group’s Alipay mobile app has launched a pilot of an AI-powered user interface, the Alipay Smart Assistant, that aims to direct Alipay users to more than 30 different types of services available within the app, according to a press release. The assistant, built on Ant Group’s Bailing large language AI model that aims to promote…
Inside the Autonomous Racing League event that pitted a self-driving car against a Formula 1 driver
“A2RL put four cars on track, competing simultaneously for the first time. And, perhaps more significantly, it pitted the top-performing autonomous car against a human being, former Formula 1 pilot Daniil Kvyat, who drove for various teams between 2014 and 2020.” Read Full Article >>
AI wants a communication-first design paradigm
“Communication-first design Our approach to the design of LLMs and generative AI should be communication-first. Traditional design principles such as relevance, accuracy, and ease of use should be re-contextualized within a paradigm of communication and interaction, not search and information retrieval. I make this distinction because the design of any interactive technology should follow the…
Meta Llama & Smart Glasses
Meta’s Release Of Llama3 Changes Everything “Making highly capable Llama tools free on its messengers will likely demonetize most of the offerings by other LLM vendors. And since most of the other tools are based on models that are not open source, the level of public trust to Meta’s tools should be significantly higher. Open…