Maximilian Kannen

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The Future is Now

Author: Maximilian Kannen

Leaked Info reveals GPT-4 context window

OpenAI has privately announced a new developer product called Foundry, which enables customers to run OpenAI model inference at scale with dedicated capacity. It also reveals that DV (Davinci; likely GPT-4) will have up to 32k max context length in the public version. This is a huge improvement over the 8k window of GPT-3.5 which… — read more

Feb 22, 2023
New Brain-computer-interface tested successfully for safety in humans

Synchron has published peer-reviewed, long-term safety results from a clinical study in four patients for their brain-computer interface. The company is backed by Bezos and Gates and uses blood vessels to insert sensors into the brain which is less invasive and safer than inserting sensors directly into the brain like neuralink. — read more

Feb 21, 2023
Github Copilot update

Github copilot got a huge upgrade. They announced a new model, copilot for enterprises, and filtering of security vulnerabilities. Read more [here]. — read more

Feb 15, 2023
AI learns to use APIs

Meta released the paper Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools which presents an LLM specially trained in using APIs to call and incorporate returned results. This allows the model to get relevant and accurate information to generate better output. — read more

Feb 9, 2023
A Book Review of “A World Without Work” by Daniel Susskind

The Book “A World Without Work” by Daniel Susskind from 2020 is a thought-provoking book that explores the technological changes happening in today’s workforce and the potential impacts on society. Dr. Daniel Susskind, a Research Professor in Economics at King’s College London and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at… — read more

Jan 21, 2023
Looking Back On 2022 And Predictions For 2023

2022 was an eventful year with lots of ups and downs. While the global economy is struggling, and problems like climate change and social instability continue to grow, there have also been some significant technological and scientific breakthroughs. The most prominent developments probably happened in deep learning with the appearance of generative models that are… — read more

Dec 26, 2022
The Future of Personal AI: Opportunities and Challenges

Personal AI, or artificial intelligence designed to assist individuals in their daily lives, is becoming increasingly common and advanced. From virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, to smart home devices like thermostats and security cameras, AI is changing the way we interact with the world around us. As technology continues to evolve, it is important… — read more

Dec 9, 2022
AI Art Generation: A Prime Example for Exponential Growth

I wanted to make this post for a while, as I am deeply invested in the development of AI image models, but things happened so fast. It all started in January 2021 when OpenAi presented DALL-E, an AI model that was able to generate images based on a text prompt. It did not get a… — read more

Oct 6, 2022
The Metaverse part 2: AR Hardware

After we discussed Virtual Reality (VR) and its implications let’s take a closer look at Augmented Reality (AR). While AR is currently not as present in the news or as developed as VR, it has the potential to be the more disruptive technology. Let us start with the current state of AR, its problems, and… — read more

Oct 1, 2022
The Metaverse part 1: VR Hardware

I decided to split the metaverse blog post into a mini-series since the topic is so broad, that when I tried to put everything into one post I simply failed. We start with the currently most relevant part: VR Hardware. VR is one of the two technologies that will be the platforms for the metaverse… — read more

Aug 30, 2022
Singularity: My Predictions

I was going to write about the Metaverse next, but the recent acceleration of technological progress convinced me to write about the singularity immediately before it is too late. The technological singularity is the event or the process when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, and the speed of progress becomes so fast that no human… — read more

Jul 27, 2022
Longevity escape velocity. Die slow, die slower, don’t die at all.

Dying is overrated, so let’s talk about longevity escape velocity. LEV is the moment when the speed with which the life expectancy grows becomes greater than one year per year. This means that your anticipated remaining life span stays the same at every point in time, and you theoretically achieved immortality. I will give a… — read more

Jul 12, 2022
Human-Machine Merging

I want to take a look into the relationship between the human body and technology.I am a huge fan of the symbiotic relationship between us and machines, but whenever I talk to my mother or someone who is not into technology, they get alienated by the idea of letting electronics into their body.This is understandable,… — read more

Jun 30, 2022