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TLDR;

🥰 Chollet’s New AGI Start-Up

🥸 One for the Books

🧐 Your New AI Video game Teammate

🕢 OpenAI’s “Tasks” Feature

🤔 In Love with ChatGPT

[TREND OF THE WEEK] Reversible Computing, Finally Real?

NEWSREEL

Chollet’s new AGI Start-Up

François Chollet, one of the best-recognized names in AI, ex-Google star researcher, and creator of the ARC benchmarks, which have proven to be some of the most complex benchmarks for AI to solve, has announced the creation of Ndea, a new start-up working on building AGI.

TheWhiteBox’s takeaway:

In TheWhiteBox, we are big fans of Chollet. How he simplifies extremely complex stuff into words anyone can understand proves how insightful and clever he is. If Chollet talks, you simply listen.

As for this project, the entire idea revolves around program synthesis, aka AIs that can generate novel programs “on the fly” given unknown tasks, instead of “fetching” them from their memory, as most LLMs do (meaning LLMs aren’t that intelligent, but similar to databases).

It’s a similar approach to what OpenAI is doing with o-type models, but I believe that Chollet will aim for much more “intelligence efficient” systems, one of the things we have covered in our predictions as critical to the “devenir” (French for future) of the industry.

EDUCATION

One For the Books

I World Bank research highlighted by Ethan Mollick’s post on X discusses the controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria.

Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring resulted in typical learning gains of around two years, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions. Importantly, it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.

TheWhiteBox’s takeaway:

You can pretend all you want that AI isn’t going to affect your job, but I can’t think of a single job that, eventually, won’t be disrupted by AI.

It is particularly relevant for educational purposes, as AIs are patient, always willing to help, and, crucially, very creative, allowing them to generate as many examples as needed so that the student can interiorize the key insights to learn.

I use AI to help me shape my understanding of things every day. This particular use case accounts for easily 90% of my interactions with these models, and they work tremendously well for this (although a word of caution: you should always use them in situations where you can verify whether what they are saying is true; they make mistakes every once in a while).

VIDEO GAMES

Your New AI Teammate

NVIDIA has announced AI-controlled avatars for popular games like PUBG. As the video in the link shows, players can cooperate with AIs as part of the missions.

TheWhiteBox’s takeaway:

As explained in the technical deep dive, these avatars are controlled by Small Language Models (SLMs) embedded into your hardware (you need an RTX GPU to make this work). This is interesting because it prevents you from having to connect to Internet-based models, which could seriously affect latency. Instead, the AI resides in your own computer.

However, as the…

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