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Should we pause giant AI experiments for 6 months?

IQ doesn’t drop based on geography. But access could. My biggest fear thence, is the lack of equitable distribution of benefits and access to AI, especially in developing countries that tend to play catch up – as we move towards AGI. Technology inherently isn’t good or bad. It is dependent on how we intend for …

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Top 5 skills for tech professionals to keep up with developments in the sector : 2022

My top 5 skills for tech professionals to keep up with developments in the sector “By 2025, 44% of the skills that employees will need to perform their roles effectively will change’, states the WEF Future of Work report. This morning, I read a The Verge report on 2023 Tech predictions that called out that …

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From Text to Image to Text to Video

X-to-X trends happening in AI is quite exciting. After text to image, here is text to video editing Stable Diffusion is a new text-to-image generator launched earlier in August, 2022. Patrick Esser, research scientist at Runway tweeted recently about Stable Diffusion coming together with Runway for text-to-video-editing soon I wonder if our rapid progress in this …

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All the images you see here are generated by an AI system

Have you seen Google‘s latest text-to-image generator Imagen? Its an AI system that creates photorealistic images from input text As the paper states, ‘ Imagen builds on the power of large transformer language models in understanding text and hinges on the strength of diffusion models in high-fidelity image generation’ ‘Human raters strongly prefer Imagen over other …

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MIT Tech Review – 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2021

Have you seen MIT Tech Reviews’ 10 breakthrough technologies of 2021? #1Messenger RNA vaccines #2GPT-3 large natural language computer models #3Lithium metal batteries that cuts the high price barriers for EVs #4Remote everything #5Multiskilled AI Twenty years ago, MIT Technology Review picked 10 emerging areas of innovation that we promised would “change the world.” This list marks 20 years …

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The Future of Self Driving Cars – the two models you should know!

The Future of Self Driving Cars you should know about – The ‘Uber model’ vs the ‘Self driving pods’ business model #Model1 Ride-sharing companies such as Uber, Lyft (partnering with Waymo) have been working on AI based autonomous tech These driver-less vehicles are considered Level 4 and Level 5 (a car that requires a human …

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Selling digital shirts, NFT’s and the virtual economy in metaverses

Selling digital shirts, NFT’s and the emergence of virtual economy in metaverses Ralph Lauren is now letting people buy digital clothing for their avatars within a virtual world in a new collaboration with Zepeto. Zepeto is the South Korean social network and its 200 million users that interact in a virtual world.  Ralph Lauren’s first …

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