This Week in 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.

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 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.

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.