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episode seventeen

• Businesses Demand: Job candidates know how to use ChatGPT!!! 💢

• Bill Gates: AI will revolutionize healthcare like the internet, and mobile phones 🏥

• Zoom Unleashes New Features: Will it be enough to Outshine Tech Rivals 🚀

Pause AI For 6 months?: The Never-Ending Sitcom of Technological Fear 🛑 

Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak recently made headlines by signing an open letter from the Future of Life Institute, an organization Musk donated $10 million, calling for a six-month pause on AI development. This has led to a familiar sense of déjà vu as past technological advancements, such as when electrifying homes was as terrifying as a Black Mirror episode. Or when trains supposedly sent uteruses flying faster than Quidditch players?

Genevieve Bell, the director of Intel's Interaction and Experience Research, notes that panic ensues when technology alters our relationships with time, space, and people. Like TV and the internet, AI ticks all those boxes, so moral panic: unlocked!

However, cultural norms often change more slowly than technology, leading to a continuous cycle of fear and panic. It's important to approach AI cautiously, recognizing that society has always adapted to technological changes.

As for that 2022 survey predicting AI doomsday? Low response rates and sketchy sampling methods make it as reliable as a horoscope. So, let's face AI with caution but also with perspective. Moral panic is older than your grandma's flip phone, and society continually adapts. And that survey? It's the punchline in technology's never-ending sitcom.

[HIGHLIGHTS]

• Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak join Future of Life Institute's open letter, advocating a six-month AI development pause

• Past moral panics: Electrifying homes and high-speed trains once sparked similar fears

• 2022 AI doomsday survey: Unreliable due to low response rates and questionable sampling methods

• Embrace AI cautiously, but with perspective, as society has always adapted to new technology

• Nvidia Omniverse showcased at GDC conference, demonstrating a wide range of AI applications in various fields including gaming, 3D modeling, sound processing, and research.

• AI-driven environment creation allows for more fluid and faster content generation, automatically adapting and arranging assets as needed.

• MetaHuman tool enables creation of highly detailed 3D characters from just three photos and a smartphone video, offering realistic facial movements and easy adjustments.

• Moonlander.ai has released a software development kit integrating generative AI designed to work alongside ChatGPT, StableDiffusion/ControlNet and other similar tools.

  • The new SDK offers multiple AI options for developers to take advantage of built on a procedural reasoning framework, serving as a single platform.

  • CEO Kasem Challiou stated that their vision is to democratize the game development landscape by providing creators unparalleled access to ShapeShifter.

AI Legal Eagles: Chatbots to the Rescue or Courtroom Nightmares?

In an astonishing move, an Indian judge turned to ChatGPT, the AI chatbot, to decide whether a suspect charged with assault and murder should post bail. I mean, who needs a law degree when you've got AI, right?

Judge Anoop Chitkara asked ChatGPT about bail jurisprudence, and the AI responded with cautionary advice on granting bail in violent crime cases. Bail denied! The case underscores how AI chatbots might save the day for India's swamped legal system, which faces a tsunami of new cases daily.

While some legal pundits imagine AI chatbots as the heroic caped crusaders of future courtrooms, others are less enthused, citing concerns about bias and discrimination. So, are AI chatbots the next legal eagles, or will they turn courtrooms into a dystopian sci-fi nightmare?

[HIGHLIGHTS]

• Indian judge consults ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, to decide on bail for assault and murder suspect

• ChatGPT provides cautious advice on granting bail in violent crime cases, leading to bail denial

• AI chatbots could potentially alleviate India's overwhelmed legal system, inundated with new cases daily

• Legal experts divided: AI chatbots as courtroom saviors or harbingers of bias and discrimination?

Northwestern Mutual: Leverages AI for Underwriting and Advising

Step right up, folks! Behold Northwestern Mutual, the 166-year-old financial services dinosaur, taking a shot at being hip by diving headfirst into the AI pool. Led by their Chief Data Wizard Don Vu, they're cooking up magical formulas to transform the underwriting process into a high-speed, data-driven rollercoaster.

But wait, there's more! They're also conjuring up a "next best action" system for advisers, like a financial psychic hotline, guiding clients toward financial nirvana. It's almost like having your own personal money Yoda whispering wisdom in your ear.

And, as if that's not enough, they're dabbling in generative AI too. Picture an all-knowing AI oracle ready to spew out summaries of training materials or crucial info at the drop of a hat – or rather, a search query.

So, brace yourselves for Northwestern Mutual's AI-powered, data-fueled revolution, saving clients from the clutches of financial anxiety and making the customer experience so dazzling it'll leave you starstruck!

[HIGHLIGHTS]

• Northwestern Mutual is prioritizing AI and data science to improve its underwriting process and adviser recommendations.

• Led by chief data officer Don Vu, it uses digital data such as lab results and medical records to accelerate underwriting decisions.

• Next best action (NBA) system for advisers to recommend financial products that can help clients achieve greater financial security.

• Experimenting with generative AI to assist advisers in getting information and summarizing training and other internal materials.

• Northwestern Mutual's commitment to AI and data science is aligned with its purpose-driven mission to alleviate financial anxiety for Americans and enhance overall customer experience.

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