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AWS Loses Top AI Exec
Matt Wood, AWS's Vice President of AI and a central figure behind products like SageMaker and Lambda, announced his departure after a 15-year tenure.
Boston Dynamics, TRI Enhance Atlas
Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) have teamed up to advance the capabilities of Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot, Atlas, by integrating AI developed by TRI.
AI for Recycling
East Lansing's AI-powered recycling program, in partnership with Prairie Robotics and The Recycling Partnership, uses camera-equipped trucks to monitor and reduce recycling contamination at the household level.
AI Boosts Federal Fraud Recovery
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has issued a warning highlighting how generative AI tools are increasingly being leveraged by fraudsters, making financial institutions—especially smaller ones—more vulnerable to sophisticated scams.
AI Demand Boosts Chip Stocks
Soaring demand for AI has added roughly $250 billion in value to chip giants like Nvidia, TSMC, and AMD, driven by tech leaders such as Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who are set to invest up to $250 billion in AI infrastructure by 2025.
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🔮 FUTURE OF AI
Meta’s AI Chief Predicts ‘World Models’ Are Key to Human-Level AI, but Still a Decade Away
The Recap: Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, believes that achieving human-level AI could be a decade away, despite growing claims about current AI capabilities. He argues that to reach this milestone, AI will need to move beyond large language models and embrace a new architecture called "world models" that allow machines to truly understand and navigate the world.
LeCun dismisses the idea that current AI systems can think, reason, or plan like humans, stating we’re still far from achieving human-level AI.
Large language models (LLMs) focus on one-dimensional predictions, lacking true comprehension of the world’s three dimensions.
World models would allow AI to understand the physical world, simulate outcomes, and make decisions based on real-world context.
Human brains naturally develop "world models," allowing us to plan complex tasks (like cleaning a room) without trial and error.
Building these world models is computationally intense, fueling competition among cloud providers to support AI research.
LeCun warns that creating functional world models poses significant challenges, and progress could take a decade or more.
Meta’s FAIR lab is dedicated to long-term AI research, focusing heavily on world models, and has shifted away from LLM-based projects.
Forward Future Takeaways: While AI advancements are impressive, LeCun’s skepticism about current capabilities highlights the complexity of achieving true human-level AI. The focus on "world models" introduces a promising direction for future AI development, but it will require solving major technical challenges. The shift towards these models will shape the next generation of AI research and applications, setting up a new phase in the AI race. Read the full article here.
👾 FORWARD FUTURE ORIGINAL
To Geek or Not to Geek: The Idea Behind Structure
This article is a Forward Future Original by guest author, Ash Stuart.
In previous articles in this series, we discussed the notion of meaning, specifically how meaning is implemented in large language models (LLMs). We also discussed the distinction between conventional software and AI, specifically that conventional software is deterministic whereas AI is just the opposite - going by terms such as stochastic, probabilistic or non-deterministic.
Let’s explore a closely related concept: data.
The notion of the deterministic behavior of conventional software is tied to the way computation is implemented. The hardware, the physical setup computers are made of is based on the transistor, which encodes the binary state - of being high or low (or one or zero), which is the core concept we started this series with.
Thus the instructions we give to the computer - the programs or code, have to be in a format that is ultimately translated to a very precise set of zeroes and ones as consumed by the hardware. This digital nature of computation is such that there is indeed the highest demand for precision on computer code. → Continue reading here.
⏺️ INTERVIEW
ASI Timeline, Open Source VS Closed Source, WorldCoin and More!
In a Forward Future first, Matthew Berman sits down with Saturnin "Sat" Pugnet, AI expert and co-founder of Worldcoin, alongside Sam Altman, for an eye-opening discussion on the future of artificial intelligence.
Sat shares bold predictions on ASI’s impact—how it could redefine industries, reshape economies, and shift global power. Amid challenges like data limitations, emerging solutions such as synthetic data and robotics push ASI closer to reality, potentially within the next 12 years. With this, Sat emphasizes the urgent need for careful oversight to safeguard society from disruption.
Watch the full interview below to learn more 👇
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