Trump: AI is Always Dangerous, Run LLMs Locally, and the Humanoids are Coming
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Hey y’all!
It’s the last week of August and that fact caught me a little off guard this weekend as I realized that some of the goals that I had for the year aren’t pacing as well as I had hoped. I suppose that happens so I won’t beat myself up about it. How are your goals doing for the year? Lmk!
Is AI “always” dangerous? That’s what Donald thinks:
Using “always” and “never” is something I try to avoid because usually it’s not.
Researchers from Beihang University in China have developed a new dataset called TableBench to evaluate the performance of AI models when answering complex questions about tabular data. The benchmark reveals that even advanced systems perform significantly worse than humans in this area.
Oh. That’s exciting.
Here’s a way to run open source LLMs with built-in RAG locally on your computer.
Samsung recently polled over 5,000 Gen Zers across France, Germany, Korea, the U.K. and the U.S. on their views of AI, and tech more generally and guess what? They have mixed feelings about it.
Amazon’s AI assistant has saved over 4,500 years of development time, according to the CEO of Amazon. That’s a good thing, yes?
Waymo has doubled its weekly paid robotaxi trips to 100,000 since May. Gradually and then suddenly is what I’m thinking about.
At the 2024 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Chinese companies introduced 27 humanoid robots (including Tesla’s) and it’s clear that they want to own the industry. Personalized robots for in-home help are coming — I can see it now.
IBM Research and Cornell University have launched AutoToS, a system that teaches AI to solve planning problems with — gasp — 100% accuracy. No humans required.
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And that’s it for today! Have a great Monday and start of the week!
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— Summer
