The Current State

• AI is crushing it in narrow tasks (coding, data analysis, etc.)
• It's Ph.D. smart in specific domains
• But it's still not "human smart"

Think of It Like This

Today, AI is like a savant who can multiply 10-digit numbers instantly but can't tie their shoes. Impressive? Yes. Human-level? Not quite.

The Gap

• Humans: Connect dots across domains
• AI: Stays in its lane

Here is What is Wild

Some experts think we're just years away from major breakthroughs. But general intelligence? That's the Mount Everest of AI.

The Real Talk

1. We're making progress FAST
2. But we're probably underestimating how complex human intelligence really is
3. Each breakthrough shows us how much further we have to go

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We're on an incredible journey,
but we're still in the early chapters.

The most exciting (and scary) parts are yet to come.

Did You Know?

By 2028, AI is expected to generate about 30% of all music content

By 2025, the revenue from all AI-related music applications is projected to exceed $6 billion.

Remember: Progress isn't linear. But so are the challenges.

Stay curious, Wojtek

Predictable Patterns

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The research, which focused on Escherichia coli genomes, indicates that nothing in nature is truly random; we simply lack the tools to see the underlying connections.

Scientists have linked aspects of bacterial evolution to random events, especially in gene changes.

However, advanced machine learning research has uncovered a hidden order in this genetic drift.

The study shows that genes maintain specific relationships, like species in an ecosystem, following predictable patterns of co-existence or mutual exclusion.

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This discovery centers on artificial intelligence, specifically Random Forest models, which accomplished tasks beyond human capability. The AI analyzed extensive genomic data, revealing complex patterns that traditional methods missed. This breakthrough showcases AI's power to uncover hidden relationships in chaotic systems.

What do you think?

With enough computing power and data, can we predict everything, leaving no room for randomness?

The study at The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Stay curious, Wojtek

If I had followed the university's teachings, I would have ended up in my first job using outdated practices like most employees because, in the late 2000s, web development and web standards were evolving rapidly.

And this happened:

After 15 years of formal education in my 20s, I knew nothing about anything.

But I knew something about web development.

I moved to a big city.

I was hired by a company that won the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Program award in Central Europe.

I have been questioning how they do web development since day one. It was a pretty risky start, I know.

I was sure they were going to fire me. Fast forward to my second week at the company.

The CEO, Stefan Batory, approached me in the kitchen. We discussed web standards, and he said, you are going for a weekly web development training course.

I was thinking, I need to get out of here!

Nobody understands me. (Imagine that sentence spoken in the voice of Moss from The IT Crowd.)

We chatted briefly, and he asked me how long I would need to prepare the training.

Me?

You will visit our branch in another city for a week to conduct web development training.

I could write another page about the training, but it’s time for the moral.

The Moral

If you want to stay current, forget formal education and learn. Thanks to AI and the Internet, there are no better or easier times to learn anything than it is today.

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Today, LLMs are the future of learning.

The Student-Led Curriculum

The student-led curriculum is an interesting concept - YouTube I recently came across.

I have been teaching myself using this concept throughout my entire life. I just didn't know it had a name. Most of the knowledge I was getting was from the internet.

Don't let schooling interfere with your LLM infinite learning machine.

Stay curious, Wojtek

PS

An interesting read on the topic from Anand Sanwal, and from Tine Thygesen.