CEO of Major AI Company Makes WILD Prediction

Hey there, Dylan Curious here with your latest AI news roundup!

This week, there were some pretty mind-blowing developments. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei said he thinks AI models could be able to "replicate and survive in the wild" as soon as next year! That's a whole new level of AI autonomy that raises some big questions.

OpenAI's GPT-4 is getting scarily capable too - it can now read security vulnerability reports and figure out how to exploit them. Not great for cybersecurity! And an AI company called Sakana is "breeding" hundreds of image models together to create the best performing ones, almost like artificial evolution. The pace of progress is wild.

In other news, a new AI chip achieved 800 tokens per second on Meta's open-source LLaMA-3 language model. And smartwatch AI can now predict atrial fibrillation 30 minutes before it happens - a potentially life-saving application.

A new AI framework can also generate realistic human motions from text prompts. According to the latest benchmarks, AI is surpassing human-level performance on almost all tasks tested. No wonder some DeepMind researchers are calling for limits on AI that mimics humans too closely.

One of the most fascinating new developments is what's being called "automated social science." Researchers are using language models to simulate social experiments and uncover new insights about human behavior. The implications are huge.

Finally, some food for thought: a new "AutoCrawler" system is using AI to read and truly understand website content as it crawls the web. Could this be a glimpse at a new era of semantic search?

The world of AI is moving at warp speed, and the societal impacts are only just beginning to take shape. We're in for a wild ride!

What developments stood out most to you? I'd love to hear your thoughts! Feel free to hit reply or leave a comment.

Warmly, Dylan Curious