Economist asks what happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution? “In time, businesses may wake up to the true potential of AI. Most technological waves, from the tractor and electricity to the personal computer, take a while to spread across the economy. Indeed, on the assumption that big tech’s AI revenues grow by an average of 20% a year, investors expect that almost all of big tech’s earnings from AI will arrive after 2032, according to our analysis. If an AI bonanza does eventually materialise, expect the share prices of the users of AI, not only the providers, to soar. But if worries about ai grow, big tech’s capex plans will start to look as extravagant as its valuations.”
Gagan Biyani: “Prediction: Over the next decade there will be a revenge of the generalist. Generalists will be rewarded as organizations shrink and employees are asked to do more with less. AI will accelerate this trend as specialized tasks become more and more automated.”
NYTimes: “What the companies are creating is technology that makes human judgment about targeting and firing increasingly tangential. The widespread availability of off-the-shelf devices, easy-to-design software, powerful automation algorithms and specialized artificial intelligence microchips has pushed a deadly innovation race into uncharted territory, fueling a potential new era of killer robots. The most advanced versions of the technology that allows drones and other machines to act autonomously have been made possible by deep learning, a form of A.I. that uses large amounts of data to identify patterns and make decisions. Deep learning has helped generate popular large language models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4, but it also helps make models interpret and respond in real time to video and camera footage. That means software that once helped a drone follow a snowboarder down a mountain can now become a deadly tool.”
WSJ: “The path to becoming more enterprise-grade has been a focus of the browser industry for a few years now, said Robert Shield, director of engineering for Google’s Chrome Enterprise unit. Chrome Enterprise Core, which has been around since late 2020, is a cloud management service that sits on top of Google Chrome and provides security capabilities. A combination of factors, including remote work and the continued rise of cloud-based software-as-a-service applications have led to a reimagining of what the browser’s role should be, according to Shield. “What we’re really seeing is this shift in how people think about browsers as not just the thing that allows them to use the applications, but also the thing that allows them to secure their data and secure their employees,” Shield said.”
