This Week in AI

1. AI in Need of Critical Thinkers

2. The AI Energy Question

3. Generative AI's Second Act

4. FT Goes AI 📰

AI in Need of Critical Thinkers

• AI Role Demand: The release of OpenAI's ChatGPT has increased the demand for AI talent, with job postings surging 20-fold from early 2023 to October.

• CIO Kyall Mai's Perspective: Chief Innovation Officer of Esquire Bank, emphasizes the importance of critical thinking over just technological expertise.

The AI Energy Question

• As generative AI has been embraced around the globe, the corresponding energy demands are skyrocketing.

  

  Projection of data centers’ energy consumption (worldwide)

• Training AI models is particularly energy-intensive. GPT-3 consumed approximately 1,300 megawatt-hours, equivalent to the annual power usage of 130 U.S. homes.

• Interesting Solutions: Crusoe

  • Crusoe Energy captures excess natural gas from operations, which would otherwise be flared (set on fire!) and uses it to power data centers on site.

AI Agents 🗺

• AI Agents are “a software program that can…interact with its environment, collect data, and use the data to perform self-determined tasks” -AWS

  • They can be assigned tasks and autonomously complete them interacting with real world environments like a human

• Google Deepmind Releases SIMA

  • SIMA operates using basic inputs like screen images and user-given natural language instructions, and it outputs keyboard and mouse commands

  • Future Significance:  Agents that can learn tasks and operate in the real world taking Knowledge from different places and applying it to their next task much like a human.

FT Goes AI

• The Race for Proprietary Data:

  • The Financial Times (FT) is giving OpenAI access to its articles to train models

  • This deal also permits ChatGPT to provide short summaries from FT articles in response to user queries, linking back to the original articles on FT.com.

• This race for high-quality training content will only intensify as model developers have already scraped the entirety of the internet.

  • It was rumored that Meta Executives were pitching an acquisition of major publisher Simon & Schuster to have access to their library of content for training.