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In the TED talk, AI Is Turning into Something Totally New , Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman proposes that a more apt metaphor for AI is a new digital species .  I predict that we'll come to see them as digital companions, new partners in the journeys of all our lives. ...waves of history are clearly speeding up, as each one is amplified and accelerated by the last. And if you look back, it's clear that we are in the fastest and most consequential wave ever. The journeys of humanity and technology are now deeply intertwined.  ...today, the most advanced AIs consume more than eight trillion words in a single month of training. And all of this is set to continue.  ...just as the internet gave us the browser and the smartphone gave us apps, the cloud-based supercomputer is ushering in a new era of ubiquitous AIs. Everything will soon be represented by a conversational interface. Or, to put it another way, a personal AI. And these AIs will be infinitely knowledgeable, and soon the

This Week I Learned -  * Meta Llama 3 is out. Built on Meta Llama 3 is Meta AI , an intelligent assistant that is capable of complex reasoning, following instructions, visualizing ideas, and solving nuanced problems. *  How IBM trained Granite LLMs  (PDF, last updated April 4th, 2024, 19 pages) *  The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants  (PDF, April 2024, 274 pages) -  General-purpose foundation models are paving the way for increasingly advanced AI assistants. Capable of planning and performing a wide range of actions in line with a person’s aims, they could add immense value to people’s lives and to society, serving as creative partners, research analysts, educational tutors, life planners and more. * watsonx.ai supports Bring Your Own Model capability. *  There's An AI For That is an AI aggregator site (TAAFT) is the leading AI aggregator, with over 2 million monthly active users and the largest database of AI tools . *  Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis – A Case-Based

The AWS PartyRock app MindMap Party  by Mario M won first prize in the Freestyle Category of the AWS PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon that was hosted on DevPost. The app lets you visualize AI-generated content created in PartyRock. The LLM produces markdowns on a topic and simultaneously a link that renders the markdown as a mind map. A static HTML file  deployed separately, receives the payload in the link and uses JavaScript to create the mind map. It uses the open-source   Markmap  project to build mindmaps from text.  The app creates four mind maps with varying level of detail. Read more about it in the creator's article . I've highlighted the parts in the prompts targeting the Claude model that I found interesting - 1) As a renowned authority on <topic>[Topic] </topic>, your expertise and comprehensive knowledge of mind maps related to this area are unmatched. Your task is to craft a meticulously structured Markdown mind map that captures the essence of <