⚙️ 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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⚙️ Nvidia beats expectations, but Wall Street wanted more

AI for Good: Precision medicine p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } One of the most significant promises of machine learning technology is something called precision medicine, a medicinal approach that centers around treatments targeted to the biological quirks of a given individual. Since the basis of precision medicine involves finding patterns in massive quantities of data, machine learning is something of an ideal tool, here.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; }...
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⚙️ Mercury: A new breed of LLM

AI for Good: Rare diseases p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Rare diseases, by their very nature, don’t get too much clinical attention.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The problem is that, in aggregate, rare diseases impact a lot of people.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The numbers: For a disease to be considered “rare,” it must affect fewer than 200,000 Americans. But, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there ar...
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⚙️ Report: The ‘skillful plagiarism’ of LLM research

AI for Good: Coral reefs p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Though they only cover about 1% of the world’s oceans, coral reefs are a vital component of our global ecosystem, according to NOAA. Home to at least 25% of all marine life, the reefs protect shorelines from storms, provide food to fishermen, are a potential source of new medicines and a massive economic boon through tourism (Australia’s Great Barrier Reef injects more than $6 billion to the economy each year).  p span...
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⚙️ Apple is slow-playing a generative AI-enhanced Siri

AI for Good: Saving the whale sharks p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Whale sharks, those massive — though harmless — bus-sized sharks, are, like many marine species, endangered. Though exact population numbers for whale sharks aren’t known, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, due to the impact of ship strikes, pollution and fishing, has declared the species endangered.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } And, like many conservation efforts, the...
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⚙️ Anthropic offers policy suggestions to US government

AI for Good: Artificial touch  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a prosthetic hand that, loaded up with sensors and sensing algorithms, is able to automatically adjust its grip force to grasp different kinds of objects.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The hand is made up of multiple, rubber-like polymer “fingers” built around a rigid, 3D-printed skeleton. Forearm muscles control the finger jo...
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⚙️ What the trade war might mean for AI

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. I do not think I have experienced what you might describe as a ‘slow news day’ in months. Anyway. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Yesterday marked the beginning of a global trade war, one perhaps accentuated by Ontario’s decision to rip up a $68 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } There will be many victims in this war. How AI will fare in this environmen...
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⚙️ Scale AI secures military contract in major step toward the era of ‘agentic warfare’

AI for Good: A better kind of drug delivery p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The method by which chemotherapy doses are calculated dates back more than a century to a formula based on body surface area (BSA). It’s a formula that only takes into account a patient’s height and weight, and further, can only be estimated; it can’t be accurately measured. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But it has remained in operation due, according to this paper, to a lack of “a...
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⚙️ Ringing the DeepSeek alarm bells: What we're missing

AI for Good: Life beyond Earth p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } It is perhaps unsurprising that, in the search for intelligent, extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned to machine learning.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Here’s what’s going on: Project Galaxia, launched by an anonymous scientist and now supported by a coalition of scientific institutions, aims to leverage both machine learning and quantum cognition to “analyze vast amounts of astronomi...
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⚙️ Interview: MapQuest, but for business decisions

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. We’re a little longer than normal today, because there are just a few things that we need to talk about. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Yesterday, I happened to run into one of the first startup CEOs I ever interviewed after jumping on the AI beat — Suman Kunaganti, of Personal.ai — and he asked me what I think is the single biggest story in AI right now. And my answer had to do with poor economic signals and the...
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⚙️ Interview: Making AI for code generation actually work

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. Sam Altman says OpenAI has trained up a model that’s good at creative writing, another model that he’s not sure “how/when” it will get released. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But creative writing, unlike math or code, is more than the final product, and is far less measurable than something that is either right or wrong. Storytelling is about how it makes a reader feel. Storytelling is a soulful practice. p s...
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⚙️ How Big Tech is using the AI ‘race’ and the specter of AGI to cement its power

AI for Good: Landmine removal p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } War leaves many things behind. One of them is unexploded ordinance.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The HALO Trust recently began a pilot program that would combine its expertise in landmine removal with drones and specifically trained machine learning algorithms to accelerate its review of mine zones and aid its effort to get rid of the explosives.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1....
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⚙️ Artificial intelligence is fast approaching a major inflection point

AI for Good: Archaeology from space p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } In 2020, Dr. Iris Kramer launched ArchAI, a startup that leverages a combination of satellite imagery, historic maps and deep learning algorithms to detect archaeological sites.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The company has since expanded beyond simple archaeology, leveraging its same approach to study the ways in which the land has changed over time, something it is achieving in part by...
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⚙️ Interview: How new tech is making digital trust complicated

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. On my way back to Jersey today after a whirlwind of a conference here at HumanX in Vegas. Will have some major takeaways for you tomorrow, but I can tell you right now that an increasing focus across the industry seems to be around trust; how it can be earned and how it can be leveraged to drive adoption. p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } With that in mind, the ethical challenges, the security challenges and the rel...
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⚙️ The sustainability problem of Jevons’ Paradox

AI for Good: Shark Eye  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Sharks — with a history predating that of the dinosaurs (by about 200 million years) — have survived five mass extinction events, spending the past 450 million years at the top of the oceanic food chain.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But over the past 50 years, their population has declined severely, with some 30% of shark species threatened with extinction, according to the Save Our Seas Foundation....
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⚙️ IBM teases a future of artificial reasoning

AI for Good: Ocean planning p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Though commercial whaling has largely stalled out, whale populations around the world remain threatened by a number of human activities, most prominently, shipping collisions, a crisis that has some scientists calling for better marine management.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } What happened: Researchers at Rutgers have developed a tool — powered, of course, by machine learning — that is designed...
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⚙️ South Korea stakes a claim in the AI Race

p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Good morning. In reading Ed Zitron’s latest newsletter on the “con” that is generative AI, I’ve got a lot of thoughts. I think I can sum them up in a simple idea, that we need to collectively think hard/harder about why certain actors/companies/governments are saying and doing what they are when it comes to generative AI, what their motivations are and why they should be trusted, both in their statements and their actions. p span[style*="font-s...
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⚙️ Musk releases Grok 3, a slightly better version of the competition

AI for Good: Autonomous science p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Science in space is hard.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Bethany Theiling, a planetary research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is an ocean worlds geochemist; she, alongside research teams at NASA, studies oceans not just here on Earth, but across the solar system.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } But studying those oceans that reside on other planets is a m...
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⚙️ Humane’s devolution and a retreat from ‘revolution’

AI for Good: Plastic management  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } There are a lot of different types of plastic, a reality that makes plastic recycling both time-consuming and expensive. See, the plastic needs to get sorted first, something that requires both people and time.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } What happened: The National Institute of Standards and Technology has been developing a plastic-sorting method that combines machine learning with lasers...
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⚙️ Humanoid robots for the home

AI for Good: Generating DNA p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The news: A team of scientists last week released Evo 2, an open-source generative AI model that they say is the largest-ever AI model for biology.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } The details: The model was trained on data that, according to Stanford, “includes all known living species,” ranging from humans to plants, animals, bacteria and extinct species. The dataset includes around nine trillion...
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⚙️ Figure AI announces robotics breakthrough

AI for Good: Viral discoveries p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } Last year, researchers at the University of Sydney used machine learning to discover a batch of more than 160,000 new virus species.  p span[style*="font-size"] { line-height: 1.6; } What happened: The researchers built a deep learning algorithm called LucaProt, which they used to compute vast quantities of genetic sequence data, including virus genomes. That computation process enabled the discovery of 160,000 n...
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