Collider Digest (Between Issues)
As we're working on the next issue of Collider magazine, we invite you to check the latest updates related to our main theme: better thinking.
What happened?
Elon Musk launched xAI
He said the goal with xAI is to build a good AGI (artificial general intelligence) with the purpose of understanding the universe.
There are a lot of unresolved questions and AI can help us to solve them.
Consciousness is still a mystery
25 years ago, Christof Koch and David Chalmers had a wager.
Koch's bet: By 2023, we'll unravel how the brain produces consciousness.
Obviously, he lost.
We still don't understand how consciousness emerges.
Some insights about this case in the article below.
Mariana Lenharo
Claude strengthens it’s cognitive abilities
Anthropic Claude 2 has arrived.
Claude is a direct competitor to GPT-4. It's cheaper and shows strong reasoning abilities.
Knowledge management has a bad rep
Cortex Futura observation on "Personal Knowledge Management" and "Knowledge Management" both have bad reputations but for entirely different reasons.
I find it fascinating that "Personal Knowledge Management" and "Knowledge Management" both have sorta-bad reputations among some people but for entirely different reasons.
— CortexFutura (@cortexfutura) July 14, 2023
PKM is seen as a hobbyist thing that the "real Gs" don't (need to) do. 'Eh, note-taking etc. ... many of…
Creating a personalised learning experience from notes
Dr. Philippa Hardman published a powerful essay on how to combine learning science and AI.
Dr Philippa Hardman
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