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24 April 2025
Pope Francis’ hopes and fears for technology and AI
The Pope’s last monthly prayer intention encourages everyone to “place technology at the service of the human person” – as a means of uniting people, helping those in need, improving the lives of the sick, fostering a culture of encounter, and protecting the planet.
Read more | VATICAN NEWS
The great AI Lock-In has begun
OpenAI is coming of age — it’s building an ecosystem of connected services. It is reportedly working on a social network and considering an expansion into hardware, and offers the new ability to “reference” past chats to provide personalized responses.
Read more | THE ATLANTIC
How AI can help supercharge creativity
Inject human creativity back into the process - the aim is to develop AI tools that augment our creativity rather than strip it from us — pushing us to be better at composing music, developing games, designing toys, and much more — and lay the groundwork for a future in which humans and machines create things together.
Read more | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Films made with AI can win Oscars, Academy says
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued new rules on Monday which said the use of AI and other digital tools would "neither help nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination".
But the Academy said it would still consider human involvement when selecting its winners.
Read more | BBC NEWS
“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery
MIT researchers have created a periodic table that shows how more than 20 classical machine-learning algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse strategies from different methods to improve existing AI models or come up with new ones.
Read more | MIT NEWS
AI is paving the way for a new type of organization - a Frontier Firm
In the Frontier Firm, on-demand intelligence requirements are managed by hybrid teams of AI agents and humans. The traditional organizational chart could be replaced by a Work Chart, which Microsoft describes as an "outcome-driven model where teams form around goals, not functions, powered by agents."
Read more | ZD NET
Nvidia thinks it has a better way of building AI agents
Nvidia is betting on open-source, or open-weight, AI technologies because they tend to offer businesses more flexibility and control than proprietary models.
By selling software for agents, Nvidia continues a tactic it started with its popular Compute Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA, a programming language that lets developers write applications for graphics processing units.
Read more | WALL STREET JOURNAL
Yale expert weighs in on how might AI affect architects
There are platforms in development that can help translate design data into construction data. They take a BIM and convert it into what are called construction means and methods — the strategy for building a building: What’s the labor force? How many crews do I need? How much is this going to cost? How long is it going to take?
Read more | YALE NEWS
AI employees with ‘memories’ and company passwords are a year away, says Anthropic Chief Information Security Officer
Virtual employees represent a whole new class of AI: intelligent systems with broader responsibilities, deeper integration into daily workflows, and the ability to make decisions independently. However, the introduction of AI agents would bring with it a host of cybersecurity concerns, such as complications around securing the AI employee’s user accounts and mitigating the risk of them going rogue.
Read more | FORTUNE
Pedestrians hear AI-generated messages from billionaires at hacked crosswalks
A string of protests has targeted tech billionaires in several West Coast cities but not the kind with large signs and marches. Instead, crosswalk speakers have been hacked with what appears to be satirical impressions of billionaires such as Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
Read more | NPR