The Cognitive Revolution

The Cognitive Revolution explores the forefront of AI technology and its societal impact, through interviews with innovators in the field. It covers AI's potential in science, art, identity, ethics, and the economy, addressing both technical advancements and philosophical questions surrounding AI's role in future human endeavors.

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The hottest Substack posts of The Cognitive Revolution

And their main takeaways

Can GPT-4 Do Science?

255 implied HN points • 15 Apr 23
🔬 Science AI Research Experimentation Discovery Automation
  1. GPT-4 may not be able to do scientific experiments independently.
  2. A recent paper suggests GPT-4 can assist in scientific research like designing protocols and carrying out tasks.
  3. While AI can accelerate productivity in science, humans are still needed for innovative breakthrough ideas.
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The AI Medicine Revolution

39 implied HN points • 21 May 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Patient Care Medical Research
  1. The newsletter explores AI solutions for health systems through interviews with experts in the field.
  2. The importance of AI in transforming medicine into a more data-driven practice is highlighted.
  3. Insights are provided on how AI can better inform physician decision-making and patient care.

To Pause or Not to Pause, that is the Question.

39 implied HN points • 05 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Ethics Innovation Safety Development
  1. The Open Letter from The Future of Life Institute urges AI labs to pause for at least six months in training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 to develop safety standards.
  2. Different experts have varying perspectives on the necessity and benefits of pausing AI development, with concerns about potential risks of superhuman intelligence.
  3. There is caution and optimism regarding the deployment and potential dangers of scaling GPT-4, emphasizing the need for extreme caution and consideration of risks and benefits.

E6: BLIP/BLIP2 & E7: Perplexity

19 implied HN points • 15 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Innovation Models AGI
  1. The future of AI involves processing visual data through language models like Google's Flamingo and utilizing options such as image captioning, VQA, OCR, tagging, and aesthetics.
  2. AI can evaluate image aesthetics to improve user experience, sales, and platform aesthetics, with tools like proprietary models from Everypixel and open-source models like LAION.
  3. Established companies should prioritize user needs over building their own models, focusing on delivering the best solutions, reducing costs, and being adaptable to market changes.

E5: The Embedding Revolution w/ Anton Troynikov

19 implied HN points • 08 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Podcasts Research
  1. Anton Troynikov believes humanity won't die from AI, but worries about destabilizing effects of new media technologies
  2. Nathan Labenz discusses OpenAI's pricing drop on ChatGPT API and its implications
  3. Notable quotes from the interview with Anton Troynikov about Chroma and machine learning models

E4: The AI Moment w/ Amjad Masad, Flo Crivello, Antonio Gracia Martinez and Dan Romero

19 implied HN points • 01 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Podcasts OpenAI AI Revolution Future of work
  1. AI is rapidly advancing in various areas like text generation and language models, shaping our future.
  2. AI could revolutionize the job market with increased freelancing, entrepreneurship, and individual leverage.
  3. There are differing opinions on the implications and future of AI, from transformative impacts to skepticism about its actual productiveness.

Coming soon

0 implied HN points • 06 Feb 23
  1. The Cognitive Revolution is launching a new AI podcast and newsletter.
  2. The podcast will be hosted by Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg.
  3. Episode 6 of Moment of Zen features a preview of The Cognitive Revolution podcast.