Google's AlphaGeometry Breakthrough

Plus Samsung launched the AI-est phone yet

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Nathaniel Whittemore
January 18, 2024

The AI Breakdown First Five - Thursday January 18, 2024

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. Literary Prize Goes to an AI Generated Novel

  • 4. Mustafa Suleyman Says AI is Job Replacing

  • 3. A “Fair Trade” Label for AI Training

  • 2. Samsung Launches the AI-est Phone Yet

  • 1. Google’s AlphaGeometry Breakthrough

5. Literary Prize Goes to an AI Generated Novel

Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize was awarded this year to Rie Kudan for her novel “The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy.” Interestingly, she unabashedly discussed her use of ChatGPT as an assistant. She said she used ChatGPT to help mimic how “soft, fuzzy words” muddle ideas of justice, and said that about 5% of the content of the book comes verbatim from AI.

4. Mustafa Suleyman Says AI is Job Replacing

A day after Sam Altman reiterated in Davos interviews that he believes AI is more likely to augment jobs than replace them, Inflection’s Mustafa Suleyman says that, no, AI is a fundamentally job-replacing technology and policy makers need to deal with it as such. Which side of this debate are you more sympathetic to?

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a 'fundamentally labor replacing' tool

Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.

fortune.com/2024/01/17/mustafa-suleyman-deepmind-ai-a-i-labor-replacing-tool-over-the-long-term

3. A “Fair Trade” Label for AI Training

Remember when the VP of Audio at Stability AI very publicly left that company late last year? Well, he’s back with a new startup creating a copyright compliance “fair trade”-style label for AI models. The nonprofit is called “Fairly Trained.”

2. Samsung Launches the AI-est Phone Yet

Samsung’s S24 in many ways shows one of the key evolutions of the smart phone in the AI era. Rather than an app that does AI stuff, AI is being woven into the phone on a fundamental level. Example? Real time voice translation while you’re on the phone.

1. Google’s AlphaGeometry Breakthrough

Geometry has historically been an extremely difficult area for AI, but Google DeepMind has announced a major breakthrough with their AlphaGeometry model. When pervious models took the International Mathematical Olympiad — a test for top high school math students - the previous state of the art was 10 out of 30 answered correctly. AlphaGeometry scored 25 out of 30.

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