🤶 The Godmother of AI Has Spoken

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

• 🤶 The Godmother of AI Has Spoken

• 🧠 Decoding The Human Brain One Millimeter at a Time

• 🧑‍⚖️ F2P Friday - AI Lawyer

• 💣️ Xbox CEO got nuked

The Godmother of AI Has Spoken

And she is not too happy with everyone focusing on the AI apocalypse when other matters like AI disinformation are on our doorstep. A sidenote, Kacey did comment that’s exactly what a rogue AI would say, so some fruit for thought there…

Now who’s this Godmother of AI? Great question.

Dr. Fei Fei Li is a computer scientist who was the guiding hand at creating a massive database called, ImageNet, which laid the entire foundation for artificial intelligence as we know it. So she’s a pretty big deal.

Her words of advice?

We need to be working on the immediate repercussions and social risks of AI. You know, things like the disruption of disinformation and misinformation to our democratic process, or, giant labor market shifts and privacy issues that are hitting people right now.

And sure, we can ponder on our sci-fi fantasies of AI being an extinction level event to humanity as we know it, but Dr. Fei Fei Li believes that’s truly not gonna happen. Which I’d have to agree with.

As fun as it is to sit back and ponder what the world would look like if Terminator Jr was locked and loaded and causing mayhem, that scenario seems highly unlikely.

I do think it’s easier to think about AI and sci-fi than it is to wrap our heads around the real world changes that are happening, and going to happen, because AI colliding with the real world is still so foreign. And quite frankly, happening so fast.

But as with anything new, there’ll always be some growing pains. I mean, look at the internet. So much change happened because of a string of numbers and words that let you see the world from the comfort of your home.

We adapted though, and I truly believe we’ll adapt alongside AI.

Decoding The Human Brain One Millimeter at a Time

It shouldn’t surprise you that Google and Harvard teamed up to create a 3D map in super high nanoscale resolution of one cubic millimeter of the human brain. For such a small area, the brain holds 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses (communication lines between neurons) and 230 millimeters of blood vessels.

Did we mention these sample slices are one thousandth the thickness of human hair? Now, to put that into perspective, our brains are over a million cubic millimeters. To get such a high level of detail, a sample was cut into 5,000 slices, scanned with a special microscope and then stitched back together by a machine learning model created by Google. To transform the raw data into something usable, while piecing the slices back together, the cells and synapses were color coded depending on how deep into the brain the connections were.

We used to think ARK devoured a lot of data… if you’ve ever ran into storage problems to install your favorite game and played a bit of hard drive Tetris, imagine trying to free up 1.4 PB (petabytes) of data. Holy hell. That’s 1.4 million GB (gigabytes).

Not that any of us care, but the research was done in a neuroscience field called “connectonomics” which studies the connections between cells. I dunno about you but I suppose anything with -nomics at the end gets me going 🤣 Ergonomics being one of them… who else has adjusted their gaming chair to be the perfect height for maximum FPS efficiency while also maintaining your posture?!?

😁 F2P Friday

Where we share an up-and-coming AI freebie to keep an eye on.

Introducing… AI Lawyer

Are you sick of paying lawyers thousands of dollars just to take your call? Well AI has you covered. Maybe. Kinda. Sorta. Hopefully?

Supposedly the AI Lawyer can help with cases ranging from compliance and tax law to child support.

But hold up. We’re not lawyers and we’re definitely not giving legal advice here so don’t take our word for it.

Like almost every AI tool, it’s free, until it isn’t. That’s how they get you.

Check it out for yourself!

🤗 Daily Delight

Just something fun and interesting around the web.

Phil Spencer, the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, has officially been nuked by a player in Fallout 76. Is this vengeance for the recent closings of three gaming studios? Maybe. Who knows, but I’m sure this’ll be happening to Phil a lot more often…

What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• 🐄 Microsoft is planning to drop $3.3 billion in Wisconsin to give AI the power of the Midwest accent.

• 📱 TikTok is going to be automatically labeling AI generated content in a push to fight misinformation.

• 🛑 OpenAI is considering the possibility of generating NSFW content in the future, and if they do, oh doctor pandoras box is gonna be wide open.

• 💪 California is planning to let AI do the heavy lifting and solve the nightmare inducing traffic problem, and give a helping hand with taxes.

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

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