With the IndiaAI Application Development Initiative (IADI), startups and innovators don’t just build products; they build solutions for India’s biggest challenges. Visit https://
indiaai.gov.in/hub/indiaai-ap
plication-development-initiative
… to know more. #IndiaAI #AIForCitizens #CitizenFirst #DigitalIndia #SmartGovernance
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IndiaAI IADI Initiative Empowers Startups to Solve National Challenges
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AI Innovation Fragility and the Future of Progress
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AI and the End of Progress — Why Innovation May Be More Fragile Than We Think AI has huge potential, but the long term strength of innovation is not guaranteed — this article explores why progress may be more fragile than it appears. Read more https://
bernardmarr.com/ai-and-the-end
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AI and Geopolitics: Intelligence as the Foundation of Sovereignty
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Tell me AI isn’t about geopolitics and power? Being able to distribute Intelligence is foundational to Sovereignty because both security and economic prosperity: the two pillars of Sovereignty are downstream of Intelligence. This is the Intelligence century, and geopolitics
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AI Chatbots Yield Lower Quality Symptom Reports Than Physicians
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Symptoms reported to an AI chatbot were of lesser quality than reported to a physician, results of a randomized trial of 500 participants across multiple models https://
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AI Benefits Require Integration With Organizations Not Just Individuals
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Organizations are already superhuman intelligences. The University of Pennsylvania or Walmart or whatever is far more capable than any human. That is why the focus on AIs as individual productivity tools hits a natural limit, many benefits of AI depend on integration with firms.
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Coding Agents Breaking Containment: AGI-Pilling Knowledge Workers in 2024
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i said on @jacobeffron
's pod recently that "coding agents breaking containment" is the breakout theme of the year. i meant it – this is the year all knowledge workers, not just coders, get AGI-pilled. for the AIE EU closing note (
https://
youtube.com/watch?v=zepu8K
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Consciousness as Scene Representation and Self-Model Reactivation
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Consciousness (in some sense of the word) is organizing the current scene representation, and recording and selectively reactivating the reactions of an observing self model, in a protocol that allows the recreation of partial scenes and reactions.
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AI Labs Used Web Data Then Pulled the Ladder on Others
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I think the expression is “pulling the ladder”! All labs trained their models by distilling (at the very least distilling the web) which allowed them to become the fastest growing businesses in the history of humanity and now that they have armies of lawyers and lobbyists, they
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Smart Glasses Reduce Phone Use, User Reports Benefits
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You make a strong case against glasses. Meanwhile everyone is staring at their phones. I have been wearing @EvenRealities and I find another point of view. 1. I am less likely to pick up my phone if I know I will see anything important in them. 2. It lets me go on walks, to
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AI Therapy Chatbot Improves Mental Health Outcomes in Mexican Women Trial
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Randomized trial of an AI therapy chatbot on Mexican women found “improved mental health by 0.3 SD over 6 months with no evidence of an increase of severe cases; improved sleep, healthful behaviors, daily functioning & labor market outcomes” Big results for a cheap intervention.