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AI’s Paradox: Tyler Cowen on Individual Empowerment, National Dependence & Exploring the New Economic Order

If you want another look at how the world is currently changing with the introduction of #GenerativeAI in our daily lives, and the national-level decisions for countries that may not build foundational #LLMs but are conscious that the future of #work, #education, #productivity, and research depends on AI, its cultural modeling, and the reliance on superpowers and mega-corporations/hyperscalers, this talk is worth watching.

This presentation by Tyler Cowen at George Mason University  offers some truly worldview-shifting insights that could directly impact you:

Your Skills vs. AI: Is “being the smartest person in the room” still your best asset, or is learning to guide AI now more valuable for your career?

  • Expert Help on Demand: What if you, or your local doctor, could instantly tap into top-tier specialist knowledge for complex problems, all through AI?
  • Your Job, Radically Changed, Soon: How will your day-to-day tasks and professional identity shift when AI starts handling significant parts of your current workload – potentially within the next 24 months?
  • Launching Big Ideas, Leaner Than Ever: Could you, or a small, agile team, realistically build and scale a major project or business that once required a large corporation, thanks to AI?

Tyler Cowen discusses #artificialintelligence from an economist perspective and its potential impact on various aspects of life and society. He highlights how AI is not just about knowledge recall but is outperforming humans in complex tasks and even nuanced interactions.

In this context, here is quote from the first episode Navigating the Future with Generative AI: Part  1, Digital Augmentation  of my series published in April 2023:

“It raises the responsibility of Managers and the Human Resources department in the whole equation. Colleagues require to be upskilled to stay ahead, not only for the sake of the company but also to help them to keep building their personal value with respect to the market. Thus, leaders and HR have to set things in motion by organizing the next steps, while their own jobs are being reshaped and augmented…”


Invest a few minutes of your life to make decisions, not just undergo them.

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Yannick HUCHARD

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Update on Tesla’s Optimus #Robot – it is progressing fast

Tesla’s Optimus Robot learning from humans

The most impressive part is the technique employed by the Tesla team for accelerating the robot’s dexterity: the robot physically learns from human actions. 

Now, let’s step back and analyse Tesla’s master plan here:

(Putting on my business tech strategy goggles) 

1. Tesla builds electric cars augmented with software programmability.

2. Tesla provides an electric grid as a service.

3. Tesla builds gigafactories that maximize the automation of car manufacturing. Almost every single part of the pipeline is robotized and optimized for speed of production.

4. Tesla builds Powerwalls (by providing energy storage, it also creates a decentralized power station network).

5. Tesla brings autonomous driving (FSD) to Tesla cars. Essentially, cars are now transportation robots governed by the most advanced AI fleet management system.

6. Tesla builds its own chips (FSD Chip and Dojo Chip)

7. Tesla builds its own supercomputers.

8. Tesla launches Optimus, which aims to replace the human workforce in factories and warehouses.

9. X.ai, which has recently raised $6 billion, X’s supposedly “child” AI company, brings the Grok AI model trained on X/Twitter data. While you may say X data is not the best, X has a algorithm balanced with human judgment (community notes), AND the company regroups the largest set of news publishing companies. Basically, it automates curation and accuracy.

10. A version of the Grok AI model will likely power Optimus’s human-to-robot conversational interface.

11. Tesla cars will be turned into robotaxis, disrupting not only taxi companies but also Uber (the Uber/Tesla partnership may not be a coincidence), and eating into the shares of Lyft and BlaBlaCar.

12. Tesla will enter the general services business, and retail industries to offer multi-purpose usage robots – cleaning services for business offices, grocery stores, filling the workforce shortage in the catering (hotel-restaurant-bar…) industry, etc.

Tesla is not the only one moving in the “Robot Fleet Management” business. Chinese companies like BYD (EV) offer strong competition, and there are several robot startups (like Boston Dynamics and Agility Robotics) racing for the pole position.

#AI #artificialintelligence #Robotics #Optimus #EV #software #EnergyStorage #Automation #powerwall #AutonomousVehicles #FSD #chips #HighPerformanceComputing #Robots #GrokAI #NLP #robotaxis #innovation #WorkforceAutomation

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Apple Vision Pro – I Thought I Knew What The Metaverse Would Feel Like. I Couldn’t Be Further From The Truth.

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A couple of weeks ago, I received an unusual meeting invite. It said “Test Apple Vision Pro.” I read it twice and jumped at the opportunity. I had been longing to get my hands on an AR/VR device that could make my dream idea – an augmented world (project Vmess platform) – a reality. That day was finally coming.

What better way to cap off an amazing work week at Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) than by getting up close and personal with Apple’s groundbreaking #mixedreality marvel – the #VisionPro? Last Friday, I had the immense privilege of taking this pioneering device for a spin.

Let me be blunt: before trying the Vision Pro, I thought I had a decent idea of what the metaverse experience would be like. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. This isn’t just the future – it’s a portal to parallel universes that shattered my expectations.

The Vision Pro isn’t a smartphone replacement; it represents an entirely new frontier, a mind-bending window into the so call #metaverse. Furthermore, everything is at hands: you pinch to interact. like every Apple creation, it exudes sophistication down to the finest detail. 

The display resolution? Words fail to capture its otherworldly crispness and depth. And we’re not merely talking apps here; these are full-fledged, multi-sensory experiences that transport you to realms you thought only existed in science fiction.

Mark Zuckerberg was certainly onto something with his metaverse vision, but Apple seems poised to leapfrog everyone with this staggering delivery that must be witnessed firsthand. 

My rendezvous with the Vision Pro was more than a tech spectacle, though. It was also a heartwarming reunion with the brilliant minds at Virtual Rangers. Their #VR app portfolio is impressive, but what moved me most was “Roudy’s World” – an experience lovingly crafted to inspire hope and joy in children facing unimaginable adversity.

Immense gratitude to Matthieu Bracchetti and the entire Virtual Rangers crew, along with François Giotto, for making this future-altering experience possible. The metaverse future we yearned for? It’s already here, and it’s far grander than we ever conceived.

#augmentedreality #virtualreality #artificialintelligence #ai #digital #innovation #tech2check #digitalaugmentation