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🤔 Wasn't China supposed to invent ChatGPT? That's what you said
"China will win the AI race!" was a commonly voiced fear until recently. But this has not been heard much since the release of ChatGPT. Once again, messy democracies were underestimated, and planned dictatorships were overestimated.
💡 Tomorrowland
"If I saw a child with a jetpack flying over me, I would believe anything is possible. I would be inspired. Doesn't that make the world a better place?"
🦾 What can we learn from the Swedish IT miracle for the AI era?
Newsweek named Stockholm Europe's internet capital. Swedes had the most computers and the best broadband in the world. From the Swedish IT miracle, Skype, Spotify, and many other unicorns were born. What can we learn from that as we now try to create AI miracles?
🙄 No, AI disinformation is not the biggest global threat - on the difficulty of getting a message across
AI-generated disinformation is the biggest global threat, says 1500 experts. That's nonsense.
📚 The best books I read in 2023
Also, tips on how to read 100 books a year. Reading so many books requires discipline, but is easier than one might think.
📚 The Angry Optimist's book recommendations for Christmas
Four reading tips for Christmas. Everything from a history of the electronic era to the creator of Spaceballs.
💬 A book you can talk to – about the book
Tonight, the book "The Centaur's Edge", co-authored by me and WALL-Y, is being released. Everyone who purchases the book will get an AI tool, allowing you to talk to the book, about the book.
😮 The naive Tony Seba has been more right than anyone else (so listen to what he says now)
Humanity is facing its greatest change ever, according to Tony Seba. Some call him a naive, foolish optimist, but Seba has repeatedly been proven right and his critics wrong. A tip is to listen to him this time.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: If we'd regulated the internet, as we're regulating AI
President Biden's AI regulation is vague and at the same time EXTREMELY specific. If we had regulated the internet in the same way, it would have seriously hampered our development. Also: We reveal which movie Biden watched that influenced his determination to regulate AI.