Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica

For years, Apple has perfected the art of making technology accessible to the point of it becoming invisible—if you’re using an iPhone or a Mac, everything just works. They offer a similar vision for AI with Apple Intelligence which will improve apps and OS features in small yet meaningful ways. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

Shortly after appearing on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast, Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI safety researcher, posted a chart on X arguing that, given the current pace of progress with AI, we will have AGI by 2027 and maybe even “superintelligence” beyond 2030 thanks to millions of GPUs concentrated in 10 GW data centers. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

The generative AI race welcomed another important contender last week when Meta released two pre-trained and fine-tuned Llama 3 language models with 8B and 70B parameters, respectively. Just in the past three months, Microsoft, Google, Databricks, Cohere and Mistral have all made foundational models available for broad use, creating a growing trend among technology companies. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment Ltd

Consumer AI devices are having a difficult time lately. With global shipments of smart home devices declining in 2023, it seemed only natural that the market would look to generative AI to breathe new life into existing devices or expand with a host of new, mobile AI-powered gadgets. However, a different story is playing out, with a string of recent releases failing to capitalize on the potential of generative AI. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight Entertainment

Ever since Kodak introduced the first camera for amateur photographers in 1888, people have preserved precious memories by carefully curating photo albums—initially as physical books and more recently as digital collections stored in the cloud with services such as Google Photos, Dropbox or Flickr. But thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI, the century-old concept of a photo album is about to get a radical upgrade. Learn more at https://www.computerspeak.co/ © 2024 Black Knight

On July 9, the CEO of Lattice, a software company offering performance management and employee engagement solutions, published a blog article that began like this: “Today Lattice is making AI history. We will be the first to give digital workers official employee records in Lattice. Digital workers will be securely onboarded, trained, and assigned goals, performance metrics, appropriate systems access, and even a manager. Just as any person would be.” After getting dogpiled on social media for

Yann LeCun said we’re still years away from AI achieving the level of intelligence of a house cat. But can today’s AI be as smart as a worm? Liquid AI, a startup spun out of MIT, believes so. Inspired by the brain of the Caenorhabditis elegans roundworms found in soil environments, Liquid AI’s founders have built a new generation of multimodal AI models designed to be more efficient and capable than traditional LLMs, especially those based on the transformer architecture. Learn more at

It was earnings week for the Magnificent 7 and, despite record-breaking profits, investors had just one question on their minds: what is $200 billion of investment going to deliver in revenue when the next generation of AI arrives?