💡 Premium Supporter recap + fact-based optimistic news
🚗 Waymo's robotaxi has now reached 50,000 paid trips per week. 🅾️ Blood types can become mutually compatible. 💉 Three West African countries begin vaccinating against malaria.
Share this story!
This newsletter is for you who are a Premium Supporter at Warp News. Feel free to share it with friends and acquaintances.
🤷 I have no talent!
"I suspect that Sundin himself possesses no talent for either visual arts, words, or music. It is these people who usually have this attitude."
This is what illustrator Henrik Tamm writes in Svenska Dagbladet, in his final reply in our debate about generative AI.
There is much to say about his reply, but what I find most startling is his claim that generative AI resets his talent:
"Now I and my colleagues are being reset. Our talent is supposed to belong to everyone. And I'm not on board with that."
If one refuses to evolve, then you will be overtaken by those who embrace the new. But what prevents Tamm from utilizing all the knowledge he has in this new era? His expertise is not at all reset; it can be used anew.
Generative AI provides non-experts the opportunity to reach near or expert level if they become really proficient at using AI. But it also gives experts the chance to level up. To create on a whole new level. To create something entirely new, that no one else has done before.
🦾 AI training in Canada
I'm lucky that the board and leadership team at Pet Valu haven't heard that I lack talent. Otherwise, they wouldn't have booked me to train them about AI for half a day.
Really fun to visit Toronto for the first time. There have been Sundins there before, but not me.
Pet Valu operates over 750 stores where they sell products our pets like, such as food, toys, and very cuddly dog beds.
It’s very good that not only tech companies are investing in AI. Like all such companies, Pet Valu is digitalized with a large e-commerce, but at the same time, they sell something as non-tech as dog and cat food.
I wrote a bit and shared some pictures from the visit and training.
🦾 The AI Commission brings forward final report
The Swedish AI Commission's (which I'm a member of) task was to deliver a report in July next year, but now we are bringing it forward to mid-autumn this year.
Unfortunately, there is no positive reason for this. Sweden has stumbled at the starting line and we must significantly increase the pace. Some actors seem to be waiting for the AI Commission, and for the government its difficult to act before we submit our report.
(Or is it as my friend Jonathan asked: Are you done much faster now after the release of ChatGPT 4o?)
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
Premium Supporter content
✊ The greengrocer's revolution
Nothing has done more to create human progress than democracy. There is nothing more important than achieving a fully democratic world as quickly as possible. Then even a grocer can make a difference.
🤥 We live in a lie
How can we accept this, I thought after the first day of the Copenhagen Democracy Summit. How can it be that in 2024 we still have dictatorship in the world? How can it be allowed to exist? Because we live in a lie.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🧬 AlphaFold 3 is here! Predicting structures of almost all biological molecules and their interactions
AlphaFold 3 is designed to predict the structure and interactions between biological molecules. Experimentally investigating these interactions can be time-consuming and costly. If these interactions can instead be accurately computed, biological research could be significantly expedited.
💉 Three West African countries begin vaccinating against malaria
Benin, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have started vaccinating children against malaria. The vaccine has shown a significant reduction in malaria diseases and child mortality in initial African pilot programs.
🛩️ Really large drones pave the way for long-distance freight transport
MightyFly receives FAA approval for autonomous eVTOL transport drones. The drone can carry a 45 kg load up to 100 kilometers. The range and ability to operate beyond the operator's line of sight enable long transport distances.
🅾️ Blood types can become mutually compatible
Scientists have developed a method using enzymes from gut bacteria to convert blood types A and B into the universal donor blood type O. This opens the possibility that all blood types can become universal donors.
🚗 Waymo's robotaxi has now reached 50,000 paid trips per week
Waymo's robotaxi is now performing 50,000 paid trips each week, up from 10,000 a year ago. The service is fully autonomous and available 24/7 in selected parts of Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
🎙️ AI talk or master class?
I'm giving a lot of talks and master classes on AI in several different countries. Happy to come to your organization.
Learn more at mathiassundin.org.
By becoming a premium supporter, you help in the creation and sharing of fact-based optimistic news all over the world.
