John Akers’ Post

I’m so excited to dive into the new book by my former PhD supervisor - the brilliant Francis Nyamnjoh! Our understandings of emerging technologies, like AI, is already deeply influenced by our imaginations and visions of the future. I believe that allowing academic insights and creative story-telling perspectives to blend can offer a much richer understanding about the role these technologies play in our lives. Cannot wait to explore the ideas in this book!

Daniel Kahnemann's groundbreaking book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" revolutionized our understanding of cognition as the two forms came about..."System 1" and "System 2". As GenAI evolves towards acquiring System-2 attributes, transitioning from techniques like "Chain of Thought" prompting & "System-2 distillation", to true System-2 Attention is crucial. Afterall it all began with the acknowledgment that "Attention is all you need" : https://lnkd.in/g_QwcYxN ....#AIMusings

🤯 Worth a listen.... Yuval Harari, author of a mind-bending new book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks, on the information systems that shape our world and why the AI revolution is just the beginning of a brand-new evolutionary process.

🙏 Thank you very much for editing such a timely and interesting volume, Kamil Filipek, Dariusz Brzeziński, Kuba Piwowar and Malgorzata Winiarska-Brodowska! 📔 I was fortunate enough to contribute a chapter, namely "Social Inequalities and Artificial Intelligence: How Digital Inequality Scholarship Enhances Our Understanding" (chapter 11), which is available here: https://lnkd.in/edm9AjSk 🔍 The chapter is a follow-up to my 2019 article "Digital inequalities in the age of artificial intelligence and big data" (https://lnkd.in/ecRnyn_B) but more centered on organizational contexts and AI inequality dynamics, including more recent generations of AI systems.

Curious how LLMs will change deep scientific research? At Undermind, we're building tools that radically rethink the "google search" paradigm - replacing it with deep agent-like search by LLMs that can find incredibly complex resources, solving your real problems directly. Here's a great blog post explaining how it's different, by Aaron Tay: https://lnkd.in/ddNTPMtS

A new report finds that AI matches or outperforms people at tasks such as competitive math and reading comprehension https://trib.al/aK7jEr0

None of the scientific terms/topics figure in top searched phrases/words in Google in 2024 (except the partial 'heat') !!! I was hopeful that people will take interest in scientific topics like AI, architectures like Transformer, RAG, knowledge graphs, etc... as fundamental blocks for delving into specific applications across various industrial verticals. Does this mean that the curiosity for understanding and participating in scientific and technological advancements is no longer attractive to the majority population ? Although, it is known that such ventures are restricted to select people with right aptitude and inclination. Hope the report can also be regenerated focusing on S&T developments during the last year.

Our work "Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond Theorising Society and Culture of the 21st Century", Routledge, made possible by the efforts of remarkable authors (e.g. Anthony Elliott AM, Christoph Lutz, Kieron O'Hara , Jonathan Roberge, Robert Seyfert) will soon be available on the publishing market. https://lnkd.in/dRYDFws7 You can now explore the introductory chapter, which theoretically organizes our argument and provides a preview of the other chapters. Enjoy the reading! https://lnkd.in/dPB8M2SZ

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Explore the top 10 AI books of 2024! Stay ahead in the dynamic world of tech innovation. #AIEducation