Week 39, mid week episode
AI & Consciousness by Tommy Jakobsen
Episode notes
The AI landscape is marked by a geopolitical hardware rivalry between Nvidia's DGX SuperPOD and Huawei's Ascend SuperPoD clusters. We will talk about that in the end of the week.
AI is rapidly expanding its societal footprint, transforming newsrooms (CNA) and classrooms (SchoolAI) while also raising ethical concerns about job displacement and data privacy. In healthcare, AI is leveraging genetic data for rare disease diagnosis.
Major technical advancements include Google's Gemini pushing multimodal reasoning and Meta's Code World Model (CWM) focusing on sophisticated code generation. Furthermore, an NVIDIA-OpenAI partnership will depl ...