⚙️ Progress & Predictions 2025: Robots, AVs and technical advancements

The past 12 months saw a lot of improvements in autonomous vehicles, robotics and the AI models that make them possible. But it also affirmed certain limitations, which grounds the technology in a rather interesting way. Essentially, my big AGI marker is simple; if someone can develop a — transparent — system, with very little training data, that is able to apply its “knowledge” reliably across novel situations, then I would say we might have a general intelligence on our hands. Because machine...
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⚙️ IBM is trying to lock up the enterprise AI market

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning (or afternoon, now). Today marks exactly one year since I started at The Deep View. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } It also marks my last day with the company. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Whether you’ve been a part of this journey from the beginning, or you just joined us, I can’t thank you enough for being a part of this community, reading in every morning, engaging with philosophically cha...
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⚙️ The big gap between AI and the real world

AI for Good: Ocean topography p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } In its mission to map our oceans by the end of the decade, Seabed 2030 — a collaboration between the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO — last year partnered with SeaDeep, a company that’s developing an AI-powered platform for oceanic exploration and monitoring.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The company’s platform delivers highly accurate information regarding the goings-on beneath the wa...
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⚙️ Yes-man syndrome; ChatGPT’s got a sycophancy problem

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. Members of the ‘change my view’ subreddit recently found out they were subjects in a secret experiment conducted by researchers at the University of Zurich. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The intention? See how generative AI bots could be used to change people’s perspective on things. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } "Our sub is a decidedly human space that rejects undisclosed AI as a core valu...
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⚙️ Fuzzy narratives and platform shifts: Duolingo goes ‘AI-first’

The first piece of US AI legislation hits Trump’s desk – it’s anything but clear-cut p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The U.S. House of Representatives this week passed (409-2) what could amount to the country’s first official foray into AI-related legislation. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The “Take It Down” Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in January by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), covers two main areas: first, it would crimi...
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⚙️ Despite it all, Meta and Microsoft have a surprisingly good night

AI for Good: Soil health p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } There is a significant link between climate change and soil health.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Healthy soil — rich in a diverse array of nutrients and minerals — better sequesters carbon dioxide, helps reduce the impact of flooding and produces better, more nutrient-rich crops.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Unhealthy soil can’t hold onto compounds nearly as well as its healt...
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⚙️ A reminder of the motivations that drive AI companies

AI for Good: Air quality p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } It was just two short years ago that wildfires razed 30,000 square miles of Canadian forests, pouring billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and blanketing most of the East Coast in an apocalyptic blanket of smoke.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The sky, hundreds of miles from the fires, was orange. And the air — filled with particulate matter of all sorts — was poison.  p span[styl...
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⚙️ IBM is trying to lock up the enterprise AI market

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning (or afternoon, now). Today marks exactly one year since I started at The Deep View. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } It also marks my last day with the company. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Whether you’ve been a part of this journey from the beginning, or you just joined us, I can’t thank you enough for being a part of this community, reading in every morning, engaging with philosophically cha...
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⚙️ AI legal battles: Even for Meta, it’s all about fair use

AI for Good: Conformal classification p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The application of machine learning and AI techniques in high-stakes environments, like healthcare, for instance, presents a massive challenge considering the persistent unreliability of the models and systems in question.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Whether we’re talking about vision models or language models, we’re talking about predicted output; those predictions aren’t always accu...
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⚙️ A description, prediction and prescription: AI as a normal technology

AI for Good: Are we alone in the universe?  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Spoiler alert: I have no idea.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But scientists are ardently trying to find out.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The challenge is sorting through all the data. To us, the Earth is a pretty sizeable object. But against the scale of constantly expanding space, it’s hardly more than a dust mote. Within the Milky Way galaxy alone, there...
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⚙️ DeepSeek unmasked: A ‘weapon’ in China’s arsenal

AI for Good: Cystic Fibrosis  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Years before ChatGPT came out, researchers at the Cambridge Center for AI in Medicine (CCAIM) were building machine learning tools designed to enable precision medicine.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } One of their earlier targets, way back in 2020, was Cystic Fibrosis. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: A genetic disorder that primarily impacts the lungs, Cystic Fibr...
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⚙️ How Microsoft is justifying its new AI-centric 365 evolution

AI for Good: Underwater rescue bots p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } A team of researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer IOSB's Institute for Applied Systems Technology (AST) is designing an underwater autonomous life-saving robot.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The idea — when dealing with drowning victims in a pool — is relatively straightforward: surveillance cameras pick up patterns of movement associated with a drowning victim, then send those...
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⚙️ When the glitter of an economic boom clashes with the environment

🎙️ Podcast: Programmable plants p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } For the latest episode of The Deep View: Conversations, I sat down with Brad Zamft, the co-founder and CEO of Heritable Agriculture, a startup that’s leveraging machine learning technology to program plants. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } This is a special one, to me — I don’t often get an in to talk about regenerative agriculture and the importance of sustainable farming practices (but when...
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⚙️ Trump seeks to bring AI to classrooms with latest executive order

Google beats earnings, says AI is ‘central’ to growth p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Shares of Google-parent Alphabet rose nearly 5% in extended trading Thursday night after the tech giant reported a healthy earnings beat.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Here’s how they did: Alphabet reported earnings of $2.81 per share, well above expectations of $2.01 per share, on revenue of $90.23 billion, above expectations of $89.12 billion. Google Cloud — a key AI-r...
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⚙️ Nvidia has a lot to prove at GTC

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. March Madness brackets are finally open, so I thought it’d be fun to see if a GenAI model could make The Perfect Bracket, thus winning me the ESPN sweepstakes. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Grok 3 and ChatGPT both outputted plausible-looking brackets, except for the fact that many of the matchups weren’t real and several of the proposed teams simply do not exist. So. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height:...
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⚙️ All the details from Nvidia’s GTC — enough to make a difference?

AI for Good: Google’s wildfire satellite p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } We’ve talked a lot about the ways machine learning algorithms are being leveraged to advance the early detection of wildfires. But these efforts mature slowly, and were unable to prevent the recent, and devastating, L.A. wildfires from getting out of control.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Still, researchers and companies are pushing hard to make early wildfire detection a reality....
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⚙️ Nvidia’s pinned its hopes on scaling — Here’s what researchers think

AI for Good: Biodegradable plastic p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } That we are living through a plastic crisis is obvious. Cheap and easy to produce, plastic has been proliferating for decades. The problem is it doesn’t break down.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } That has led to plastic pollution in larger forms (think of all the water bottles you’ve seen in the woods), as well as smaller forms (microplastics that get in our food, and then in us).  p span...
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⚙️ A crisis of hallucination: ChatGPT tells a father that he killed two of his sons

AI for Good: Traumatic brain injuries p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often described as “the silent epidemic” for a simple confluence of reasons: a steady lack of awareness of and research into it, its widespread reach — impacting nearly 70 million people each year — and its damaging, sometimes lethal, impact to its victims.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The causes of TBI are varied: car accidents, falls or, generally, blo...
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⚙️ The challenges of making AI for mental health care work

AI for Good: Dealing with tuberculosis p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } India, home to more than a quarter of the world’s tuberculosis infections, is at the center of a global battle against the disease. In an effort to meet its target of total TB elimination by 2025, the country has turned to AI-powered technological innovations.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: Prominent among these is something called DeepCXR, an AI tool developed by the Insti...
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⚙️ AI powers massive escalation of cyber attacks

AI for Good: Sustainable buildings p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } “The buildings where we work, shop and live,” according to Inger Andersen, the executive director of the United Nations Environmental Program, “account for a third of global emissions and a third of global waste.” p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But a new report from the UNEP found that, for the first time since 2020, building emissions have stopped rising. It’s a step in the right direction,...
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⚙️ ARC launches new AGI benchmark focused on efficiency

🎙️ Podcast: The five taboos that Silicon Valley broke p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } I had the pleasure of connecting with Igor Jablokov, the founder and chairman of Pryon, to talk about the ways in which the field of AI has evolved over time.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Igor worked as a program director at IBM, where he developed an early version of IBM Watson, before striking out on his own. His first startup was acquired by Amazon, where it evolved...
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