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Hello and welcome back to Five Things AI, where the machine still hasn’t taken over. This week we will take a look at a opinion piece Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek penned for The Economist, advocating for more focus on Open Source when it comes to AI development. I do think that this is the way forward, as Open Source powers the backbone of the internet with all the server infrastructure. I’ve been an Open Source advocate since the mid-90s and when I look at AI, I think Open Source is more important than ever. We will also look at the wonderful world of science, where AI is now being used to create new experiments that weren’t possible before. And from science we will head over to consumer apps that you can test over the weekend, before we get a better understanding of what AI means for small businesses and then we will talk about sparkles as a design choice. Let’s dig right in! Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on why Europe should embrace open-source AI
“The internet largely runs on open-source technologies, and so do most leading tech companies. We believe the next generation of ideas and startups will be built with open-source ai, because it lets developers incorporate the latest innovations at low cost and gives institutions more control over their data. It is the best shot at harnessing ai to drive progress and create economic opportunity and security for everyone.” Mark and Daniel advocate for more Open Source and different regulation in Europe. I think we need to revise the EU AI regulation constantly as we get a better understanding of the regulatory challenges. An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments
This is fascinating: AI can come up with new ideas and methods for experiments. This is still in the early stages and the AI is still a bit limited, but there are enormous possibilities. Also, some of the stuff could be totally made up right now, which is probably not too helpful in a scientific setting. The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps
and now for something different, and even practical: take some time and play around with these apps. There are some gems in this list. Oh, btw, I stumbled across Napkin.ai recently and found it very cool. It creates visuals from text, something that takes me a lot of time. So much fun to use! How A.I. Can Help Start Small Businesses
I think there’s too much talk about how AI will make jobs obsolete. There is so much potential out there when people use AI for tasks that they could not be doing before or that required too much time or money. AI can enable people to do lots of things, for instance running their company more efficiently. How the Sparkles Emoji Became the Symbol of Our AI Future
So why are sparkles being used when designers want to point out that AI is being used? Is it because we connect sparkles with magic? Will this last for decades, just like the floppy disc icon for saving something? If you missed last week’s edition of Five Things AI, you can read it here: That’s it for Five Things AI this week! 🤖 — Nico You're currently a free subscriber to Five Things. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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