The Memo - 14/Nov/2024
Alan’s ASI checklist, OpenAI Operator and more agents, FrontierMath, and much more!
To: US Govt, major govts, Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Citi, Tencent, IBM, & 10,000+ more recipients…
From: Dr Alan D. Thompson <LifeArchitect.ai>
Sent: 14/Nov/2024
Subject: The Memo - AI that matters, as it happens, in plain English
AGI: 83%
ASI: 0/50 (no expected movement until post-AGI)Contents
The BIG Stuff (Alan’s ASI checklist, Visa 500 LLM use cases, OpenAI Operator…)
The Interesting Stuff (Kling 1.5, Dario, Hollywood, Google Learn About, Osmo…)
Policy (New US administration, TSMC law, China analysis, Nusantra…)
Toys to Play With (OpenAI students, Udio album, Ollama, Gmail agent…)
Flashback (Leta AI Episode 32…)
Next (Claude 3.5 Opus, Roundtable…)
The BIG Stuff
Exclusive: Alan’s ASI checklist (Nov/2024)
I’m now in my fifth decade of watching most of humanity shrink away from intelligence. It seems that there’s been a visceral fear of smarts since the dawn of time, perhaps increasing after the first IQ test was developed 120 years ago.
In an ideal world, ASI’s milestones would be visible instantly. But we live here on Earth, with all our imperfections. Here are the first 50 things I’m looking forward to; my favourite upcoming ASI milestones. It is not exhaustive, I’ve left out animal translation and immortality and many other things. It was designed as just one lens through which to view the ASI milestones. It’s likely that they’ll be checked off differently to the order shown here, and certainly with some new ones that my unaugmented human brain can’t yet imagine…
Take a look: https://lifearchitect.ai/asi/
OpenAI Operator and more agents (Nov/2024)
Microsoft announced that it will deploy agents with at least 10 capabilities in public preview from December 2024 (21/Oct/2024).
Then Anthropic gave us Claude computer use (22/Oct/2024), the first major commercial agentic LLM.
Next up, OpenAI is set to release a new AI agent platform, codenamed ‘Operator’, in January 2025. Operator will allow users to automate tasks such as writing code or booking travel by enabling the AI to take actions on their behalf.
Read more via Bloomberg.
Visa has deployed hundreds of AI use cases. It’s not stopping (1/Nov/2024)
Visa has integrated over 500 AI use cases across its operations, focusing on areas like fraud detection, risk management, and customer experience.
Visa’s deployments include a tool that finds security bugs in code, chatbots designed to act as subject matter experts on various areas of the business and a tool that helps subscribers customize timings of their billing cycles…
[The] vision in the coming years is for Visa to have AI-generated digital employees that are overseen by human worker[s]. Any given human employee could oversee, on average, eight to 10 AI employees that are trusted with a variety of tasks…
Read more via The Wall Street Journal.
The Interesting Stuff
Kling 1.5 character consistency and AI movies (Nov/2024)
Kuaishou Kling 1.5 is one of the leading text-to-video models. The Kuaishou team are now aiming to improve character consistency in AI-generated video content, a crucial step toward the creation of full AI movies. Current AI video generation struggles with fast motion and scene continuity. Kling, which likely uses LoRA (Low-Rank Adapter) techniques, is expected to address issues like character identity retention across frames, paving the way for higher-quality AI-driven productions.
Source video: https://x.com/maxescu/status/1854987940381724746
Try Kling: https://kling.kuaishou.com/en
Argonne AuroraGPT 2T updates (Sep/2024)
Argonne has released news about its upcoming AuroraGPT 2T model via a slide deck from Euro-Par 2024, showing a lot of information presented in a decidedly scientific format (PDF, 68 pages, 9.6MB).
It looks like Argonne are still aiming to hit a multi-trillion parameter model, but they are doing it in stages using Llama:
7B ➜ 70B ➜ … ➜ 2T
Read my overview of AuroraGPT 2T and ScienceGPT: https://lifearchitect.ai/auroragpt/
Exclusive: AGI model name (6/Nov/2024)
Anthropic’s CEO recently admitted (12/Nov/2024) that Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new) ‘should have had a better name. It’s clunky to refer to it.’
I worked with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (new) to create this absurd model name. (For clarity, this is a joke.) The new model name is:
GPT-X-o10-Turbo-0112-long-Ultra-Plus-Pro-Max-Lightning-Flash-Limited-Edition-Quantum-4D-Unified-Command-Enhanced-Series-X-Next-Gen-Premium-Enterprise-Elite-Advanced-Refined-Boosted-Neural-Scaled-Omega-Extreme-Stable-Diffused-Nemotron-Extended-∞-Context-Sparse-Dense-Hybrid-MoE-Mamba-Architecture-Supreme-Developer-Preview-6-Production-Ready-Patch-3-Hotfix-11-(new)-(new)-reverted-latest-final-FINAL-V2-(new)
See 450+ real model names that inspired this one: https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
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