⚙️ 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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⚙️ 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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⚙️ Poolside is chasing AGI through software and new architectures

AI for Good: Canadian reforestation  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Over the past 10,000 years, the world has lost more than a third of its forests. Half of that loss occurred in the last century.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Roughly 10 million hectares (25 million acres) of forest is cut down each year, and that doesn’t count the more than three million hectares of tree cover that is burned in wildfires each year.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-h...
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⚙️ CoreWeave picked a bad time to IPO

AI for Good: Treating preemie babies p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } In a new study, researchers at Stanford Medicine designed a deep learning algorithm — specifically, a variational neural network — to improve intravenous nutrition and treatment for premature babies.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: Trained on data from nearly 80,000 intravenous preemie prescriptions, which included information about the results of those prescriptions, the algo...
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⚙️ Inside IBM's cutting-edge Albany research center

The realities of AI in medicine p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } We’ve been hearing, almost from day one (and every day since), that AI will ‘cure’ cancer. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } It’s been several years since Mr. Altman started talking about that, and such a phenomenon has yet to occur. See, the realities of AI technologies — by which I mean generative AI, language models and machine learning models — in healthcare are both highly nuanced and extre...
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⚙️ Amazon’s new model release highlights the fuzzy applicability of LLMs

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. There are always so, so many things going on in this field. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But, perhaps more importantly, Mumford and Sons dropped a new album after a seven-year hiatus (and it’s good!). That, my friends, is big news. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Also, OpenAI officially closed a $40 billion funding round at a $300 billion valuation, the largest private funding round ever. Th...
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⚙️ OpenAI raises record $40 billion — don’t call it a bubble

🎙️ Podcast: Tools, not gods: IBM VP on AI, neuroscience and the nature of intelligence p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The latest episode of The Deep View: Conversations — an exploration into neuroscience and AI with IBM VP Dr. David Cox — is out. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Give it a listen here, or check it out on YouTube above. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } “That arc of we build tools, we pass on knowledge — we built machines th...
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⚙️ LLMs, The Imitation Game and the complex history of the Turing Test

AI for Good: AI drug for ALS enters early clinical trials p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Those drug repurposing efforts that we were talking about the other day have led to the AI-assisted discovery of FB1006, a drug intended to treat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that, currently, has no cure.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } 4B Technologies, the company leading the development of the drug, announced in February of...
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⚙️ What Trump’s tariffs mean for AI

AI for Good: Flexible robots p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Researchers at MIT, collaborating with researchers at the University of Notre Dame, have developed a soft, flexible robot intended to aid first responders in the ‘search’ part of search and rescue operations. It’s called Sprout (Soft Pathfinding Robotic Observation Unit).  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The robot was specifically designed to enable teams to quickly and easily understa...
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⚙️ UN says countries must take measures to prevent global AI inequality

AI for Good: Assessing carbon sequestration  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Part of the battle against climate change involves immediately ceasing our ongoing production of carbon emissions. The other part involves removing existing carbon from the atmosphere.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Nature happens to be really good at the second part. Natural carbon sinks — forests, plankton in the oceans, general plant life and vegetation — absorb carbon as a par...
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