Hsieh Forbes Column: Inactivity Is Bad For Your Brain Health

My latest Forbes column is out: "Inactivity Is Bad For Your Brain Health"

Business Implications Of The Definition of AGI

"OpenAI's Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations". 

Basically, the definition of "AGI" in the contract between OpenAI and Microsoft could have important implications in which portions of OpenAI IP would (or would not be) available to Microsoft.

New Organelle

"Scientists discover unknown organelle inside our cells"

AI Résumés

"Employers Are Buried in AI-Generated Résumés"

AI Painting Restoration

"MIT student prints AI polymer masks to restore paintings in hours". (Via H.R.)

New Jobs Because Of AI

NYT: "AI Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You."

"Satellite" Map Of Middle-Earth

"A 'Satellite' Map Of Middle-Earth"

Robotic Heart Surgery

"US surgeons perform first full robotic heart transplant without chest incision". (Via H.R.)

Book Pointer

A friend recently pointed me towards this book: "Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism: Essays in Memory of Paul A. Cantor" edited by Jo Ann Cavallo.  

Dr. Cavallo is a libertarian professor of literature at Columbia, which sounds like a pretty unique combination!

A brief description:

The volume’s contributors apply libertarian philosophy and Austrian economics to both literature and media, from early modern drama to novels to comic books, cinema, and television series. Several chapters contrast capitalism with statism, focusing on the market economy versus central planning, freedom versus government coercion. Not surprisingly, the economic theories of Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, and F.A. Hayek run through several essays. Contributors also engage with other theorists and writers as diverse as Thomas Hobbes, Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leo Strauss, and Judith Butler.

 I'm putting it on my list!

Cephalopod Oddities

"The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system". (Via H.R.)

No Bar Tabs For Gen Z

"Gen Z Doesn't Want to Start a Bar Tab"

Sphere Tricks

"Cool Physics Feat Makes a Sphere Roll Down a Vertical Wall". 

Update: Link fixed!

Tesla Robotaxi Questions

"Tesla's make-or-break robotaxi moment is here. Can Elon Musk deliver?"

AI And Radiologists

"Real-world use of generative AI boosts radiologist productivity by up to 40%"

Apple On The Illusion Of Thinking

Apple paper: "The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity".

This paper is getting lots of press/controversy over the bold claim that LLMs aren't really thinking, but rather just very good at advanced pattern matching.

Robot Moves

"MIT's new tech enables robots to act in real time, plan thousands of moves in seconds". (Via H.R.)

AI And Math

"What's next for AI and math"

Light Posting

Admin note: Posting may be light this week due to external obligations.