🍎 Apple Stealth Drops MM1

Hello, fellow nerds 🧙

Elon Musk finally pulled the trigger after xAI’s big announcement last week, and they’ve officially made Grok open-source.

This is great news 1) There’s nothing better than when someone talks the talk and walks the walk 2) The AI community at large can finally start playing with Grok at a deeper level to truly unlock its capabilities. This is a big win in the world of AI, and we’re definitely holding our breath for how OpenAI responds.

Here’s the daily quests in AI to complete today:

• 🍎 Apple Stealth Drops MM1

• 🧑‍🏫 Teachers Found a New Support Player

• ❓️ What Is Long, Short, and Sounds Too Good to Be True?

• 🎒 Backpacks Will Never Be the Same

Apple Stealth Drops The MM1 Model

Say it with me: Let. 👏 Tim. 👏 Cook. 👏 

Hot damn, Apple is not afraid of the kitchen. They totally cooked up the MM1 and stealth-dropped it out of nowhere. And now suddenly, Apple is kinda back in the AI race.

What the hell is MM1?
Ok, so it doesn’t sound as spooky as it looks. Here are the most important things to know about MM1:

• A brand new type of AI system

• Combines visual and language understanding

• Very good at learning new things quickly

• Can look at multiple images and tell how they’re connected

So, what does this all sound like to us?
A primed AI system for Siri 2.0. Conversation and learning information about the user, in our eyes, seem to be the key focus of this new AI system. Through using your phone or, any Apple device for that matter, Siri is just going to get to know you better and better. Think of an AI that is completely personalized to you.

We’re sounding like a broken record about Apple, but they’re so gonna change the AI landscape. And soon.

Teachers Might Have Found Their New Support Player

…Finally.

And not a moment too soon. This knight in shining armor goes by “YourWai” (pronounced your way) and is an AI app to make teachers’ lives much easier. Hopefully 🤞 

The problem worth solving

So currently teachers create a daily lesson plan for their class, which could range from 15-30 kids. That doesn’t seem that hard, right? Well, wrong. A lesson plan has to take into account each student’s needs, and how best to teach the entire classroom effectively. Depending on the classroom size and the scope of each student’s needs, this process could take well over an hour every day.

Now imagine if that could all be automated.

That’s the dream that some Brooklyn high school teachers are trying to achieve, at least.

And with YourWai, that may be entirely possible.

They’ve been giving the app a test run, and apparently, the app works pretty simple. Just plug in your student’s needs and standards, and boom. Looks like you’ve got yourself a bonafide lesson plan.

If it’s truly that easy, what an absolute game-changer.

As a cherry on top, here are some additional feats YourWai brings to the table:

• Email parents

• Create rubrics

• Give assessments

• Give students feedback

To be honest, YourWai sounds like a damn fine support player, and could certainly be a benefit to teachers everywhere. If there’s a world where a teaching assistant can fit in the palm of your hand, well, we’re living in it right now.

🌎 Macro Monday

A deep dive into a topic with the big picture in mind…

What is long, short, and sounds too good to be true?

The 32-hour, 4-day workweek.

Bernie just did us a solid.
He reintroduced the idea via a bill he's sent to Congress. It's not a new concept but let's face it, the economy has changed.

Back in 1926, Henry Ford paved the road to better labor standards. He doubled workers’ pay and standardized the 5-day, 40-hour workweek to encourage a society that made time for leisure.

But it wasn't until the 1940s when the Fair Labor Standards Act was put into effect and the 40-hour workweek was adopted as a society. And even then, it didn’t happen overnight. It took years.

Since the Industrial Revolution, we've largely valued ourselves based on our productivity. And as a "productive" member of society, we're primarily judged by our contributions to the workforce. After all, as a country, productivity equals wealth and power aka GDP (Gross Domestic Product - the value of goods and services produced in a year).

How then, with the prevalence of Artificial Intelligence, are we supposed to value ourselves? We're at a crossroads, which to some degree is similar to a mid-life crisis, where we have to ask ourselves... if our job as we know it can be replaced, where does that leave me? Who am I? What is my value?

If the 40-hour workweek is antiquated and with the emergence of AI, we're more intelligent, productive, and efficient than ever, where does that leave us and our value to society?

Daily Delight

Just something fun and interesting around the web.

When inventions come out like this, I think to myself….duh. How has no one ever thought about this before? A floating backpack, of course, that totally makes sense. If you’re a hiking fan, boy oh boy, Christmas just came early.

What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• LinkedIn has announced that they’re adding games to their site and the biggest question is why?

• Animating character models in games just got easier with the new ability to use only text prompts

• The FCC has finally tried using the internet on 25mbps while a family member watches Netflix and declared it actually sucks

• India decided to revise its regulations on AI models to only have “unreliable models” be approved first

That’s all the quests we have for today. Check back tomorrow for more!

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