🔮 AI boosts earnings; the crisis of reading; CO2 protein; Russia’s tangerine payment; brain map, friends & AI podcasts++ #494
An insider's guide to AI and exponential technologies
Hi, it’s Azeem. Welcome to the Sunday edition of Exponential View. Every week, I help you ask the right questions and think more clearly about technology and the near future. For more, see Speaking | Book | Top posts | Follow me on Notes
Ideas of the week
The foundations of future AI
This week I argued that AI’s future will likely feature an ecosystem of domain-specific foundation models…
The most interesting question to me is, how will these models interact with each other in the future? When I used GPT-4 and Chai to predict a protein structure, GPT-4o1 acted as an orchestrator; it gave me an example sequence to test Chai-1’s capabilities with. There is nothing stopping more complex agent workflows from developing like this over time.
Technoalexia
Students are increasingly finding it difficult to concentrate on lengthy texts, Rose Horowitch highlighted in The Atlantic this week. We may jump to blame new technologies (notably smartphones, which have reduced our ability to concentrate), but …