AI Research, AI Lovers, Creativity, Moore's Law, and Severance
Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 AI Research
🫨 AI Lovers
✍️ Creativity
🤖 Agents
➕ Moore’s Law
💊 Severance
🤷 Middle Class Salary
Podcast
Revolutionizing Investment Research with AI
In this episode of Prodity: Product by Design, Kyle interviews Andrew Einhorn, CEO and co-founder of LevelFields, an AI-driven fintech application that automates investment research. Andrew shares his unique background in epidemiology and data science, detailing how it led him to create LevelFields, which focuses on event-driven trading strategies. The conversation explores the importance of user feedback, the role of AI in investment analysis, and how LevelFields differentiates itself from traditional investment platforms. Andrew emphasizes the need for continuous innovation and the lessons learned from his previous ventures.
News and Useful Reads
Your A.I. Lover Will Change You
AI is taking over everything. How we think about relationships will definitely be changed as we continue down the AI path.
Is it important that your lover be a biological human instead of an A.I. or a robot, or will even asking this question soon feel like an antiquated prejudice?
OpenAI Says Their LLM Can Write Creatively
AI isn’t creative, but repackages human creativity. That, of course, raises the question “what is creativity?” And can AI ever be creative?
Is originality an illusion, a deft trick of taking in data about the world and parsing and rearranging it? Or is it rooted in some ineffable aspect of human experience? Or is it something else entirely: a subjective judgement that’s open to interpretation by whoever is interacting with the creative work?
Adobe and Zoom deploy AI agents
Adobe and Zoom are the latest enterprise players to debut generative AI systems that can perform day-to-day office tasks beyond simply summarizing or answering questions.
A Groundbreaking Trend: The "Moore’s Law" for AI Capabilities
Recent research from METR (Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks) has revealed a groundbreaking trend in AI capabilities: the length of tasks that AI agents can complete autonomously has doubled approximately every seven months since 2019. This trend, often referred to as a "Moore's Law" for AI, highlights the rapid and exponential growth in AI's ability to handle increasingly complex and time-consuming tasks. Let's delve into the implications of this trend, its underlying factors, and its potential impact on industries, the workforce, and society at large.
Other Interesting Finds
Severance brought everything together in its season 2 finale
I rarely watch a show as new episodes air, preferring to wait until I can watch the entire season. But Severance was absolutely worth breaking the rule for. If you haven’t seen it yet, put it on your list soon.
But show’s season 2 finale didn’t just show that all of its mysteries, no matter how small or weird, meant something. It did so in an elegant way — neatly connecting disparate storylines together, while also leaving just enough unclear to make for yet another great cliffhanger. And it was all while being weird and terrifying in a very specifically Severance way.
The salary you need to be considered middle class in every U.S. state
We used to talk about “making six figures” like it was a lot of money. But in most places you’re just barely getting by in the middle class with $100k.
A six-figure household income doesn’t necessarily make you rich — in many cases, it just means you’re middle class.