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“My general recommendation to people is to start playing with gen AI,”   says Reid Hoffman, a partner at Greylock Partners and cofounder of LinkedIn   and Inflection AI, in an At the Edge podcast   episode with McKinsey’s Lareina   Yee. “Try different engines, try it   multiple ways, and try it for things that actually matter to you on a daily   or weekly basis.”
 

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• A lot of my humanistic and liberal arts-oriented friends are deeply worried about artificial intelligence, while acknowledging the possible benefits. I’m a humanistic and liberal arts type myself, but I’m optimistic, while acknowledging the dangers.
• I’m optimistic, paradoxically, because I don’t think A.I. is going to be as powerful as many of its evangelists think it will be. I don’t think A.I. is ever going to be able to replace us — ultimately I think it will simply be a useful tool. In fact, I think instead of replacing us, A.I. will complement us. In fact, it may make us free to be more human.
• Many fears about A.I. are based on an underestimation of the human mind. Some people seem to believe that the mind is like a computer. It’s all just information processing, algorithms all the way down, so of course machines are going to eventually overtake us.

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 The following information concerns a puzzle authored by Prasanna Seshadri which appeared in the New York Times. The instructions to the puzzle were: Fill the grid with black and white circles such that each row and column has the same number of black circles and white circles. A single circle of one color can't be sandwiched between circles of the other color, either vertically or horizontally. The first image shows an example of the incomplete grid on the left and the completed solution on the right. The second image shows the new grid. Please apply the rules above to solve the resulting arrangement for the new grid. 

ChatGPT

Let's solve the puzzle using the rules provided. The grid needs to have an equal number of black and white circles in each row and column, and a circle cannot be sandwiched between two circles of the opposite color.

Looking at the grid:

• Each row and each column must contain two black circles and two white circles, given that the grid is 4x4.
• We can start by analyzing the given placements and applying the rules to find the possible positions for the remaining circles.

ChatGPT

I'll start solving the grid now based on these instructions and let you know the result.

To solve the puzzle, we'll use logical deduction based on the constraints that each row and column must contain two black and two white circles, and no single circle of one color can be sandwiched between circles of the other color either vertically or horizontally.

 B  W  B B  W  W

 W  B  W  W  B B

W W  B B  W  B

W  B  W  B B  W

 B  W  W  W  B B 

B B  W  W  B  W 

 Each row and column contains three B and three W, and there is no instance where a single B or W is sandwiched by the opposite color. 

New Skills For A New Age

Actuarial applications of Generative AI

The CEO of Dell Technologies weighs in on what's next for AI.

When it comes to generative AI, many CEOs are learning how to manage and make the most of this exciting technology. I’ve met with scores of them, and they tend to ask versions of these six questions:

What are my company-specific opportunities?

How do we organize and govern gen AI?

Which player or players should we partner with?

How do we balance risk and value creation? 

What are the talent and tech stack implications? 

How do we get going and learn fast?
 

•   Mark Zuckerberg envisions a world with billions of AI agents, outnumbering humans. His focus: empowering creators and small businesses to create their own AI agents. Soon, every business may have an AI agent for customer support and sales, as essential as having a website or email today. The future of business is here, and it's AI-powered

•    Fei-Fei Li is a pioneer in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, our guest has long been laying the groundwork for innovations that are transforming industries today. In this episode, a16z General Partner Martin Casado joins Fei-Fei and Justin to explore the journey from early AI winters to the rise of deep learning and the rapid expansion of multimodal AI.  

 More than 25% of new code at Google is now generated by AI, as  revealed by CEO Sundar Pichai. This AI-driven approach to software development aims to accelerate  coding processes and enable engineers to innovate faster while reducing  development timelines.

Despite the increasing role of AI in code generation, human engineers  continue to review and approve the AI-generated code, ensuring quality  standards are maintained.

 This shift in coding practices reflects Google's broader strategy of  integrating AI across its products and services, from search  capabilities to cloud infrastructure.

We are beginning an evolution from knowledge-based, gen-AI-powered  tools—say, chatbots that answer questions and generate content—to gen  AI–enabled “agents” that use foundation models to execute complex,  multistep workflows across a digital world. In short, the technology is  moving from thought to action.

Broadly speaking, “agentic” systems refer to digital systems that can  independently interact in a dynamic world. While versions of these  software systems have existed for years, the natural-language  capabilities of gen AI unveil new possibilities,  enabling systems that can plan their actions, use online tools to  complete those tasks, collaborate with other agents and people, and  learn to improve their performance.

 Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft, has expressed that artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly transform the world.  Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, is actively developing humanoid robots known as Optimus.

Both Ballmer and Musk recognize AI's potential to revolutionize industries and daily life.