This week’s cover represents the latest release of Anthropic’s Claude, a powerful model that competes with GPT-4.  Wharton professor Ethan Mollick tests each AI model’s context window by loading the entire text of The Great Gatsby into the prompt.  He hides a small incorrect detail to see if the AI can find it. Claude successfully scanned the entire novel and caught a single reference to an iPhone that would not have existed in the 1920s. Image created by MidJourney. The font is LTC Broadway. 

Executive Summary

• There are now four powerful AI models: This marks the first week that users have real choice when it comes to strong AI models: Anthropic’s Claude, Inflection’s Pi and Google’s Gemini can compete with Open AI’s GPT-4.   However, few people (less than 1% of OpenAI users) pay the $20/month for GPT-4.  Even fewer will pay for four subscriptions.  I’m not counting Mistral, since that’s too technical for most people to set up.
• Anthropic’s Claude is a new GPT-4 level model: A GPT-4 competitor launched this week. Claude by Antropic is similar in performance to GPT-4 but with slightly looser guardrails, making it feel more human.  Claude excels at logic as well as finding small details in huge amounts of data (needles in haystacks).  In fact, it catches you if you try to trick it, and calls you out.  Many people find these emergent nuances eerily self-aware.   Claude also drew a remarkable self-portrait that went viral (see below).
• Inflection 2.5 is close to GPT-4 performance: “Inflection just launched Inflection-2.5, a major upgrade to the model powering its Pi personal AI assistant. The empathetic, personal chatbot is now capable of delivering near GPT-4 level performance.”
• OpenAI replies effectively to Elon Musk: Regardless of who you like or dislike, OpenAI handed Elon the receipts in an effective public relations reply to his lawsuit.  “We are dedicated to the OpenAI mission and have pursued it every step of the way. We’re sharing some facts about our relationship with Elon, and we intend to move to dismiss all of his claims.”  See links to emails released by OpenAI, below.
• Apple’s Siri is going to be new and improved: Apple says to look for Siri to “become a real force in the AI arena” sometime in 2024 or 2025.
• AI continues to demonstrate medical prowess:
  • “AI predicts kidney failure six times faster than human expert analysts”
  • “A new smartphone tool accurately diagnoses ear infections”
  • “Artificial Intelligence matches or outperforms human specialists in retina and glaucoma management”
• Microsoft to launch an AI personal computer: Microsoft may debut an “AI PC” in March 2024.   
• Microsoft is pioneering small locally hosted AI: “Microsoft Research published a new paper introducing a new LLM variant breakthrough that’s just 1-bit in size, called BitNet b1.58. It’s a whopping 70x more energy efficient and 4x smaller than LLaMA. (LLaMa is Meta’s open source LLM model, that’s considered one of the top two, along with Mistral). 
• Microsoft invests in Mistral, the leading open source AI model: “Microsoft’s Mistral deal beefs up Azure without spurning OpenAI”  What a powerful portfolio.
• Driverless Taxis in California and Texas: Waymo expands self-driving robotaxis without human drivers in California and Texas.
• The Army is building AI vehicles: Palantir wins $178M Army deal for TITAN artificial intelligence-enabled ground stations, the Army’s “first AI-defined vehicle.”
• China caught stealing Google’s trade secrets: A Google employee was caught selling trade secrets to China
• Beware of chatbots from TurboTax or H&R Block: TurboTax and H&R Block’s AI chatbots have been giving bad tax advice
• ChatGPT resume discrimination: Three researchers ran 1000s of resumes through GPT 3.5 and GPT-4 screening tests and found the AIs racially discriminate based only on name.  Given identical resumes, with only the names changed, Black men were ranked lowest and Asian women highest.
• Meta’s AI video ecosystem: Meta is building a giant AI model to power its ‘entire video ecosystem,’.   
• Microsoft pokes fun at the New York Times: Microsoft compares New York Times Lawsuit to ’80s movie studios trying to ban VCRs 
• Example of a robot trained in a virtual world and effectively emerging into ours: A robot was successfully trained in virtual reality to navigate real-life confined spaces like collapsed buildings. 
• Cool trick of the week: Apple Vision Pro accurately measured a 337-yard stockpile simply by a person walking around and looking at it while wearing the goggles.
• Plot twist, Hugging Face is building robots: Leading open source repository Hugging Face is hiring AI engineers to build embodied robots. 
• Study Math, not Computer Science: A week after Jensen Huang told parents to guide kids away from studying computer science, a who’s who of AI leaders signed a letter underscoring the importance of math skills.

Top 38 Links of The Week

These are the must-click links, in order by topic.  Even if they look boring, click them!  I did the work, so you don’t have to worry.  All are 10/10 would recommend.   

• Anthropic Launches Claude – Highlights
  • Introducing the next generation of Claude. The three state-of-the-art models—Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku—set new industry benchmarks across reasoning, math, coding, multilingual understanding, and vision.
    • https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family 
  • Claude calls out people trying to test its ability to find items snuck into long text:  “This sentence seems very out of place and unrelated to the rest of the content in the documents, which are about programming languages, startups, and finding work you love. I suspect this pizza topping may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention, since it does not fit with the other topics at all.”
    • https://twitter.com/alexalbert__/status/1764722513014329620 
  • “This is required reading if you are interested in AI. It is the system prompt for Claude explained by an insider. Note: 1) How much Anthropic trusts the AI to know what to do – rules are common sense, not exhaustive 2) What types of nudges the AI needs to stay on track & harmless”
    •  https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1765211693045714987 
  • Claude 3 Opus just reinvented this quantum algorithm from scratch in just 2 prompts.  The paper is not on the internet yet.
    • https://twitter.com/GillVerd/status/1764901418664882327   
  • “OH MY GOD I’M LOSING MY MIND Claude is one of the only people ever to have understood the final paper of my quantum physics PhD”
    • https://twitter.com/KevinAFischer/status/1764892031233765421 
  • “Claude 3 does a good job with the needle-in-a-Great-Gatsby test, where I load the entire text of the novel with a couple alterations into the context window. Much better than Claude 2.1 (no hallucinations!), not quite as good as Gemini (not quite as insightful about content).
    • https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1765526220639440964 
  • “Post day 1 analysis of Claude 3 – it’s very good and should be considered a GPT-4 class model – safety lobotomy makes it worse than GPT-4 on some prompts – plus, it’s slightly worse than GPT-4 on the latest benchmarks from GPT-4. – manual tests have GPT-4 edging it out at…”
    https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1764984062350115106 
  • “Asked Claude 3 Opus to draw a self-portrait. The response is the following and then I rendered its code: “I would manifest as a vast, intricate, ever-shifting geometric structure composed of innumerable translucent polygons… “
    • https://twitter.com/karinanguyen_/status/1764789887071580657 
  • “This was designed to be a very hard test for AIs, and the questions were kept private, lowering the chance they were in the training data. PhDs with access to the internet got 34% of the questions right outside their specialty, 65%-75% inside. The new Claude 3 gets 60% overall.”
    https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1764741463764594812 
• Inflection Launches Inflection 2.5
  • Inflection-2.5: meet the world’s best personal AI
    • https://inflection.ai/inflection-2-5  
• Agents and CoPilots
  • “We’re so excited to introduce Zapier Central: a new workspace for building custom AI bots to tackle your tasks!”
    • https://t.co/n5eVDAsjNs
  • Wix AI Website Builder – Create A Website In Minutes | Wix –
    • https://www.wix.com/ai-website-builder   
• Augmented and Virtual Reality
  • “Can you measure a stockpile with an Apple Vision Pro?! So proud of the team for pulling this off.”
    • https://twitter.com/jonstephens85/status/1765142194393145521 
  • “Tara Meisinger, Senior Maintenance Manager at Panasonic , demonstrates the power of AIP + Mixed Reality for frontline operators: • As we inspect the broken machine, AIP surfaces an error in spatial context. • AIP accesses PENA’s ontology to connect with a real-time sensor…”
    • https://twitter.com/PalantirTech/status/1765836140563825056 
• Chips and Hardware
  • “The modern economy rests on a single road in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The road runs to the two mines that are the sole suppliers of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers. There are no alternative sources known.”  From Ed Conway’s book “Material World”
  •  https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1766504587781878196 
• Imagery
  • “Midjourney just released the new version of /describe and it’s wayyyy better than the previous version It produces longer and more detailed prompts that are specifically tuned for v6”
    • https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1765914181323129250 
  • “A visual look at the –stylize parameter in Midjourney”
    • https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1764810716073079102 
  • “The new turbo mode Midjourney released for –v 6 generated 40 prompts in 1 min 50 sec That’s 2.75 seconds per prompt, or 0.69 seconds per image Wild”
    • https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1766201773583114608  
  • “Try adding “analog photo” to the front of your photo prompts and use –style raw”
    • https://twitter.com/nickfloats/status/1764722767918715131 
• International News
  • Alibaba Backs $2.5 Billion AI Firm in Second Big 2024 Deal – Bloomberg
    • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-05/alibaba-backs-2-5-billion-ai-startup-in-second-major-2024-deal   
• Meta
  • Meta is building a giant AI model to power its ‘entire video ecosystem,’ exec says
    • https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/facebook-working-on-single-ai-model-to-power-all-video-recommendations.html 
• Microsoft
  • “Microsoft Research published a new paper introducing a new LLM variant breakthrough that’s just 1-bit in size, called BitNet b1.58. It’s a whopping 70x more energy efficient and 4x smaller than LLaMA.”
    • https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1765958909523595711
  • Microsoft’s Mistral deal beefs up Azure without spurning OpenAI
    • https://www.theverge.com/24087008/microsoft-mistral-openai-azure-europe 
  • Microsoft may debut its first ‘AI PCs’ later this month
    • https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-may-debut-its-first-ai-pcs-later-this-month-204522580.html   
  • Microsoft AI engineer says Copilot Designer creates disturbing images
    • https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/microsoft-ai-engineer-says-copilot-designer-creates-disturbing-images.html   
• OpenAI
  • “We are dedicated to the OpenAI mission and have pursued it every step of the way. We’re sharing some facts about our relationship with Elon, and we intend to move to dismiss all of his claims.”
    • https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk 
  • Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster
    • https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/technology/openai-executives-role-in-sam-altman-ouster.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a00.qm8I.UrNbQdRlYGEA&smid=url-share 
• Publishing
  • Licensing AI Means Licensing the Whole Economy
    • https://www.fromthenew.world/p/licensing-ai-means-licensing-the  
  • Microsoft compares New York Times to ’80s movie studios trying to ban VCRs
    • https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-compares-new-york-times-to-80s-movie-studios-trying-to-ban-vcrs/ 
  • “We Built a News Site Powered by LLMs and Public Data: Here’s What We Learned”
    • https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/we-built-a-news-site-powered-by-llms-and-public-data-heres-what-we-learned-aba6c52a7ee4   
• Robotics
  • Meet Punyo, TRI’s Soft Robot for Whole-Body Manipulation Research | by Toyota Research Institute
    • https://medium.com/toyotaresearch/meet-punyo-tris-soft-robot-for-whole-body-manipulation-research-949c934ac3d8   
  • Hugging Face nabs Tesla scientist for open source robotics project
    • https://venturebeat.com/ai/hugging-face-is-launching-an-open-source-robotics-project-led-by-former-tesla-scientist/ 
  • “How can we train robust policies with minimal human effort?  We propose RialTo, a system that robustifies imitation learning policies from 15 real-world demonstrations using on-the-fly reconstructed simulations of the real world.”
    • https://real-to-sim-to-real.github.io/RialTo/ 
  • “We trained ANYmal to go into confined spaces such as under collapsed buildings. To be presented at #ICRA2024 Title: Learning to walk in confined spaces using 3D representation”
    • Video: https://t.co/etJQu3YSrW     
• Science and Medicine
  • PreemptiveAI, which is developing AI models to interpret biomedical signals, emerged from stealth with $6.4 million in funding.
    •  https://twitter.com/AxiosPro/status/1765361311599177769    
  • AI tool predicts kidney failure six times faster than human expert analysts
    • https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-ai-tool-kidney-failure-faster.html 
  • New AI Smartphone Tool Accurately Diagnoses Ear Infections
    • https://www.upmc.com/media/news/030424-ai-diagnoses-infections   
  • Artificial Intelligence Matches or Outperforms Human Specialists in Retina and Glaucoma Management, Mount Sinai Study Finds
    • https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2024/artificial-intelligence-matches-or-outperforms-human-specialists-in-retina-and-glaucoma-management-mount-sinai-study-finds 

Most Helpful Visuals of the Week

“Claude is one of the only people ever to have understood the final paper of my quantum physics PhD”
https://twitter.com/KevinAFischer/status/1764892031233765421

MidJourney

Nick Floats is the best resource out there for learning about MidJourney- https://twitter.com/nickfloats

Nick’s guide to using Style values in prompting is unbelievable! I never knew this until today. https://twitter.com/nickfloats/

Look how different the images are based on the style value (prompt and examples below):

analog color photo, closeup of a man in a cafe –stylize {0, 50, 75, 100, 250, 350, 500, 750, 1000}

https://twitter.com/nickfloats/

The Rest: AI News of The Week

Don’t let the volume overwhelm you.  Have fun and skim them. The links are organized by topic, sorted from ‘coolest’ to ‘least cool’, and each topic is clearly defined with a headline.  I’ve added a description and glossary of what the topics mean, beneath each label, in plain language.  I do the work so you don’t have to!   When you visit the pages, note that the links and descriptions are often pulled directly from tweets or articles, so it’s not always my voice.  Pause when you see something that interests you.  Reach out to me any time. I enjoy sharing and discussing these items.

Agency/Agents/Copilots News of the Week: Agency is when AI can do things for you (like Googling an actress name or fetching the latest weather forecast). An agent is one step further, when AI given autonomy to take action on your behalf (“Alexa, book a reservation for three at Peak in Hudson Yards for Friday night”). A co-pilot is an assistant (like spell check or autofill).
This weeks’s latest agent news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/agents-and-copilots-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Amazon News of The Week: Individual company products will often be placed in the categories they match (image, audio, agents, robots, etc). Occasionally, I’ll dedicate space to a company’s news if it’s broad or a major product release.
This week’s latest Amazon AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/amazon-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Anthropic News of the Week:
Anthropic is a company that builds LLMs like OpenAI, Mistral, Meta, etc. Their main AI brand is Claude. As with Amazon and Apple, individual Anthropic company posts will often be placed in the categories they match (image, audio, agents, robots, etc). Occasionally, I’ll dedicate space to a company’s news if it’s broad or a major product release.
This week’s Anthropic news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/anthropic/

Apple News of the Week: As with Amazon, individual Apple company products will often be placed in the categories they match (image, audio, agents, robots, etc). Occasionally, I’ll dedicate space to a company’s news if it’s broad or a major product release.
This weeks’ latest Apple AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/apple-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) News of the Week: Artificial General Intelligence, in a nutshell, is when artificial intelligence is able to beat humans at everything (including embodying physical forms and completing physical tasks).  It’s usually a thought catalyst for predictions, like when AGI will occur. 10 years? 25 years? 100? AGI is an event horizon that is tough to define, tough to imagine, and tough to predict. OpenAI defined AGI in its charter as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work”. OpenAI has a section of its website dedicated to AGI. Google’s DeepMind published my favorite report on the five levels of artificial intelligence on the way to AGI (see also here).
This week’s latest Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/artificial-general-intelligence-agi-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) News of the Week: Augmented reality is when you see images or information on top of the real world.  A car windshield with a heads-up display of the speed. Or glasses that have facial recognition and overlay the names of everyone in view. Virtual reality is when you are transported into another place, usually wearing goggles, but a flight simulator could also be considered virtual reality.
This weeks’s latest AR/VR news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/augmented-and-virtual-reality-ar-vr-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Autonomous Vehicles/Driverless Cars News of the Week: Driverless car news doesn’t always get its own category, because it’s so close to robot embodiment. I go with my gut each week around what to place in each category. My recommendation would be to follow Robotics/Embodiment also, as the two fields are converging.
This week’s autonomous vehicle news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/autonomous-vehicles-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

AI Audio News of the Week: In this case, AI audio can mean a few things. The first is “generative audio” which refers to creating sounds with AI, much like ChatGPT writes words or MidJourney creates images. For example, asking for the “sound of waves crashing on the beach” would be text to sound. Another example would be an AI ‘watching’ a video and adding sound to it, like a foley artist would add footsteps or a creaking door to a movie scene. Lastly, AI audio can refer to microphones that only pick up certain speaker’s voices or headsets that cancel out all voices but your friends. This week’s latest AI audio news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/ai-audio-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Business/EnterpriseAI News of the Week: This broad category is for stories that impact corporations and large scale AI implementation. Enterprise refers to a type of AI that is often custom built for a business or leverage an API to connect secure data to an AI model. 
This weeks’s latest enterprise AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/business-and-enterprise-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Chips and Hardware AI News of the Week: Most of the chip news is NVIDA usually, yet more and more Meta, Google, and OpenAI are starting toward their own manufacturing. I have to make the call whether to put Meta, Google, and OpenAI’s chip news under this section or their company sections. Lately, I’m putting each company’s chips news into the company category, rather than the chips category. This is the rest of the chips headlines.
This weeks’s latest chips and hardware news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/chips-and-hardware-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Consumer Electronics AI News of the Week: This is a broad category meant to capture end user tools and products that incorporate artificial into their feature, from high-end grills to smartphones.
This weeks’s latest consumer AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/consumer-products-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Education AI News of the Week: There is a lot of buzz around the impact of AI in education. This section focuses both on the risks and rewards of how AI can impact learning. It’s broader than just K-12 and includes things like skills, trade, professional, and higher education. This is not about how to learn AI, it’s about AI’s impact on learning.
This weeks’s latest education news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/education-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Ethics/Legal/Security AI News of the Week: This section focuses on the impact AI is having on ethics (deep fakes, war, trust, false information, plagiarism, job loss, income), legal (rights, laws, regulations), and security (hacking, phishing, national interests, safety). For huge news stories like the NY Times suing OpenAI, I usually put them under the main section or give them their own page.
This weeks’s latest AI ethics/legal/security news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/ethics-legal-security-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Google AI News of the Week: Individual company products will often be placed in the categories they match (image, audio, agents, robots, etc). Occasionally, I’ll dedicate space to a company’s news if it’s broad
This weeks’s latest Google AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/google-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Imagery News of the Week: AI imagery covers “generative AI” image tools. This usually text-to-image, where a user enters a prompt (“a polar bear walking through NYC”) and a tool like Dalle or MidJourney generates an image in the likeness of the description. This is different than AI vision, where an AI “looks at” an image and can derive context, details, and contents. AI vision is a subset of AI called multimodality. Imagery, in this case, is for image creation and modification/editing. Adobe Photoshop’s AI tools would fall into this category. I’ll also include things like automatic masking and object removal, even though that’s in between imagery and vision… but practically speaking it fits into editing.
This weeks’s latest AI image news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/ai-imagery-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Inflection News of The Week: Inflection is an AI company that builds LLMs like OpenAI, Mistral, Meta, Anthropic, etc. Their main AI brand is Inflection through the interface assistant called Pi. As with Amazon and Apple, individual Inflection company posts will often be placed in the categories they match (image, audio, agents, robots, etc). Occasionally, I’ll dedicate space to a company’s news if it’s broad or a major product release.
This week’s latest Inflection news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/22/inflection/

International AI News of the Week: A lot of international news will get cross listed in the chips, security, or open-source categories, however it’s nice to have a separate category for worldwide AI news.
This week’s latest international AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/international-ai-news-china-france-india-korea-2/

Locally Run AI Models News of the Week: This is a niche mostly for serious AI followers. It refers to AI that can be privately downloaded and run on a device without an internet connection. These have an array of powerful implications, from ethics of rogue users with untethered agents, to practical uses like Apple running a full AI on your phone, to corporate installations for security, to embodied robots with AI running in their virtual brain.
This weeks’s latest locally run AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/locally-run-ai-models-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Meta AI News of the Week: This is a space dedicated for Meta specific AI advancements and news stories.
This weeks Meta AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/meta-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Microsoft AI News of the Week: This is a space dedicated for Microsoft specific AI advancements and news stories.
This weeks Microsoft AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/microsoft-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Multimodal AI News of the Week: This is a broad topic for an single AI model that demonstrates an ability to interact with more than one modality (imagery, video, audio, text). Often multimodal news will end up in one of these categories. I’m playing it by ear on a case by case basis. Please be patient with my organizational challenges.
This week’s multimodal AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/ai-multimodality-vision-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

OpenAI: OpenAI is the leading force in the AI boom of 2023 and now 2024. This section focuses on news that is specific to OpenAI. This section will compete with all of the other sections (imagery, vision, ethics, etc) because OpenAI is so broad. I won’t be able to consistently pick when to put things under OpenAI or other sections, so bear with me.
This weeks’s latest OpenAI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/openai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Open Source Models: An open source AI model refers to a class of artificial intelligence models with public source code. They can be inspected, copied, installed, and customized on private computers. In contrast, a closed source model is proprietary and owned by a company that you pay to use (like PowerPoint or Photoshop). One of the most famous open source language models is a French model called Mistral. Its code is completely publicly available, and anyone can download it and customize it. On one hand, open source is a transparent and powerful way to democratize AI, but on the other hand, open source models circumvent the guard rails and copyright protections that private companies implement. Open source models are the wild west of artificial intelligence, but also the potential saving grace (depending on who you ask). It’s a bit like gun control debates but for computing power.
This weeks’s latest open source news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/open-source-ai-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Podcast/YouTube Clips of the Week: This is for more general interviews and explainer videos and podcasts that provide access to leadership, demos of new products, and walkthroughs and tutorials. Videos focused on specific topics will live in the topic category (i.e. images), but broader videos will live here.
This weeks’s latest podcasts and YouTube clips: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/ai-podcasts-youtube-op-eds-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Publishing AI News of the Week: These are stories about AI’s impact on the publishing industry. From copyright and crawling to the death of page views or even the end of browsers.
This weeks’s latest publishing AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/ai-publishing-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Robotics/Embodiment News of the Week: This is the most intense area of AI. Embodiment refers to putting an AI inside of a machine. It’s “embodying” the object and therefore giving a robot agency in the real world. An example would be using a large language model as an interface to a complex coding task. Just as you ask “Alexa, play Bad Blood by Taylor Swift on Spotify” using plain language, with embodiment you could ask a robot to “Go to the laundry basket and bring me all of the red shirts”. The language model in the robot would translate your request into the proper code to go get the red shirts. The robot was never trained on the task. Another type of embodiment would be training a robot using virtual reality simulations. Using an simulation, a robot could be trained on thousands of scenarios until the real world can be swapped out and the robot doesn’t “notice”. This section also includes factory automation and human prosthetics. There will be some overlap with other categories like autonomous vehicles. I first learned about embodiment from Alan Thompson. I highly recommend his video explainer: https://youtu.be/peLqYP9BAUg?si=2FzrvDlw-qaQFaCx.
This week’s latest robot and embodiment AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/robotics-and-embodiment-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Science/Medicine AI News of the Week: AI’s strength is learning patterns. This applies nicely to medical diagnosis and identifying trends. When combined with data and AI vision, this means AI is good at looking at x-rays. Language models are helping with patient interface, and robotics and augmented reality are advancing surgery. Powerful enterprise models like Google’s Alphafold can master protein folding. Other models can read ancient scrolls without opening them.
This weeks’s latest AI science and medicine news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/ai-science-and-medicine-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

AI Video News of the Week: AI video in this case refers to generative video. Much like imagery meant generative imagery. This usually text-to-video, where a user enters a prompt (“a wizard walking out of a flaming building”) and a tool like Pika or Runway generates an video in the likeness of the description. It also covers animation of still images, where an image is given motion (like a photo of a waterfall appearing to have flowing water). As with images, this is different than AI vision, where an AI “looks at” an image or video and can derive context, details, and contents. Video, in this case, is video creation and modification/editing.
This weeks’s latest AI video news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/ai-video-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Technical and AI Developer News of the Week: Everything that is too technical for general consumption goes here. These are stories I think are important, but might be inaccessible and confusing. It’s also a space for developer news and deep dives into how AI works, under the hood.
This weeks technical and dev AI news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/08/ai-tech-and-development-news-week-ending-03-08-2024/

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/

Previous Issues

• AI News: Week Ending 03/01/2024:
  • https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/05/ai-news-22-week-ending-03-01-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-25-links/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 02/23/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/03/03/ai-news-21-week-ending-02-23-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-36-links/
• AI News: Week Ending 02/16/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/02/27/ai-news-20-week-ending-02-16-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-39-links/
• AI News: Week Ending 02/09/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/02/25/ai-news-19-week-ending-02-09-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-18-links/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 02/02/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/02/17/ai-news-18-week-ending-02-02-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-18-stories/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 01/26/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/02/06/ai-news-17-week-ending-01-26-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-12-stories/
• AI News: Week Ending 01/19/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/02/04/ai-news-16-week-ending-01-19-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-16-stories/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 01/12/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/01/15/ai-news-15-week-ending-01-012-2024-with-executive-summary-and-top-13-stories/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 01/05/2024: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/01/14/ai-news-14-week-ending-01-05-2023-with-executive-summary-and-top-16-stories/  
• AI News: Week Ending 12/29/2023: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/01/07/ai-news-12-week-ending-12-29-2023-with-executive-summary-and-top-9-stories/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 12/22/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-12222023-executive-summary-top-links-holland-frx4e 
• AI News: Week Ending 12/15/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-12152023-ethan-holland-elmee 
• AI News: Week Ending 12/08/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-12082023-ethan-holland-zabve 
• AI News: Week Ending 12/01/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-12012023-ethan-holland-rglve  
• AI News: Week Ending 11/24/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-11242023-ethan-holland-jqvre 
• AI News: Week Ending 11/17/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-11172023-ethan-holland-ad6le  
• AI News: Week Ending 11/10/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-11102023-executive-summary-top-three-holland-yjdef/ 
• AI News: Week Ending 11/03/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ethanholland_aiebh-ai-generativeai-activity-7131396231678844928-3U8M
• AI News: Week Ending 10/27/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ethanholland_aiebh-ai-generativeai-activity-7127139342321356800-uBPD
• AI News: Week Ending 10/20/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-10202023-ethan-holland-eocpe 
• AI News: Week Ending 10/13/2023:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-10132023-executive-summary-ethan-holland-nq9bf 
• AI News: Week Ending 10/6/2023: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-news-week-ending-1062023-ethan-holland-b6uhe