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Scenario prompts 22 July 2024
Today’s prompts are: opportunity to pre-order my book about books about AI, China, magnetoelectrics, an AI bookkeeper, digital clones, space-based solar, organisational design, wearables, digital alternates and assembloids.
Structure or culture? Is culture too slow?
A book about books about AI
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
So far, taking the perspective from 22 books/authors covering intelligence (there are many forms), work, synthetic biology, transhumanism, economics, spiritualism, digital transformation, data, etc. When you go through the books again, you start to wonder if we are asking the right questions. Pre-order to stay in the loop.
China orders AI companies to align their models with socialist values
https://the-decoder.com/china-orders-ai-companies-to-align-their-models-with-socialist-values/
During testing, the language models must answer a series of questions, many related to politically sensitive topics and President Xi Jinping. The evaluation also examines training data and safety procedures.
US discovery paves way for extremely fast and compact computer memory
https://interestingengineering.com/science/strongest-magnetoelectric-material-faster-compact-memory
This finding could revolutionize the development of ultra-fast, energy-efficient devices in various fields, including quantum computing.
Docyt AI Unveils GARY, the World’s First AI Bookkeeper
Through GARY, businesses can now get real-time financials through continuous reconciliation – KPI tracking is also performed daily in real-time. This cuts the month-end close down to 45 minutes whereas it can take up to 2 weeks for a typical business
Chinese companies offer to ‘resurrect’ deceased loved ones with AI avatars
Increasingly powerful chatbots like Baidu’s Ernie or OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which have been trained on huge amounts of language data, and serious investment in computing power have enabled private companies to offer affordable digital “clones” of real people.
Will space-based solar power ever make sense?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/will-space-based-solar-power-ever-make-sense/
A 1-gigawatt power plant in space would be comparable to the top five solar farms on earth. A power plant with a capacity of 1 gigawatt could power around 875,000 households for one year.
Reinventing the Org Chart: Innovative Structures for the Modern Workforce
https://ciolook.com/reinventing-the-org-chart-innovative-structures-for-the-modern-workforce/
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/organisational-design-will-eat-culture/
This tiny patch could be the future of wearable technology
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/this-tiny-patch-could-be-future-of-wearable-technology/
When applied to the skin, it uses light from the laser to detect and measure specific chemicals or substances in the body.
The alternate ‘you’ in the metaverse
Imagine knowing the effects that a glass of wine will have on your body before taking a sip.
Lab-grown human neuron assembloids effectively model synaptic plasticity
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07-lab-grown-human-neuron-assembloids.html
Researchers figured out that if two different types of organoids fuse together, they create an “assembloid” in which the two types of neurons continue to develop, send processes toward each other, and then begin to communicate.