Zuck, ASU, & Dutch AI

Looks like you can pre-order the Apple Vision Pro headsets now…should be a wonderful experience. If Apple can make the experience better than that of Meta’s Oculus, they should succeed.

Apple’s tech stack is completely vertically integrated, and since they own the app store, they will own all the VR apps that developers will build in the ecosystem. 

Anyways, expect a lot of the generative AI apps built over the last year to dip their toes in VR waters- if the sharks don’t bite, devs will continue to build there.

We’ve got some interesting AI things happening on the docket today.

1/ Zuck wants to open source AGI

This is definitely a better path than many of the “doomsday” experts who say that AGI will destroy humanity and “AI should therefore be slowed down”. With open source AGI, the people would have access to the code and algorithms that constitute this intelligent being.

If X’s algorithm is currently open-sourced- why not AGI?

2/ OpenAI and ASU partner- this partnership essentially allows for faculty and staff to integrate with the enterprise tier of ChatGPT to level of AI coursework, research, etc.

The University gets it- rather than banning the technology, integrate with it and learn from it.

The question is: do more university partnerships spawn from here?

3/The Dutch Government pledges a quarter of a billion investment for AI innovation.

This is great news for the nation, and their vision statement on generative AI is quite nuanced as well:

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If there was ever a time in the last 2 decades to accelerate spending on a technology, it would be right now for AI (and perhaps in 2010 for bitcoin).

This is a nice counterweight against a usually heavily regulatory EU.

4/ Some Google DeepMind Scientists in talks to leave - they are planning to form their own AI startup.

They would probably go much faster on their own, without corporate bureaucracy stifling them- and if they believe so, then why not?

Peace