Remapping Fast Food, Unlocking Healthcare Solutions, and Raising Red Flags

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TL;DR

In today's Aideations Newsletter, we delve into the transformative power of AI across fast food, healthcare, and safety sectors. We explore how AI disrupts fast food businesses, aiding efficiency but threatening job security, hear industry leaders' warnings about the potential dangers of AI, and discover the revolutionary role of machine learning in combating superbugs. The edition also brings you the latest AI news, a deep dive into the VOYAGER AI research, a suite of AI-powered tools to streamline your work, and thought-provoking video and daily prompts.

Here's what we've got in store for you today:

🍟 Your AI with a Side of Fries & Disruption

♟️ Is AI Our Own Worst Enemy?

🦠 AI vs. Superbugs

📚 Research Of The Day

🎥 Video Of The Day

🛠 Tools Of The Day

🤌 Prompt Of The Day

Fast Food Future: AI Taking Your Order with a Side of Disruption

Picture this: you pull up at your favorite drive-thru joint and, instead of some overworked, underpaid employee, you're greeted by the cheerfully infallible voice of AI, ready to take your order. This is not some wild sci-fi dream, my friends, but a very real near-future scenario, as per Rob Carpenter, AI mogul and founder of Valyant AI.

According to Carpenter, within the next five to ten years, I think much sooner, ie < 2 years, AI could shoulder most if not all jobs at your favorite fast-food joints, like McDonald's, Taco Bell, or my personal guilty pleasure, Popeye's. He even mentioned that Wendy's is already getting chummy with Google to create an AI-enhanced drive-thru experience. Sounds like the Jetsons, right?

Now, let me throw some numbers at you - 150,000. That's how many people McDonald's employed before the recent layoffs. And guess what's filling the gap? AI! Take Valyant AI's Holly, for example. She's already outdoing human employees, having processed over a million drive-thru orders at places like Hardee's and Carl's Jr.

According to Carpenter, the AI charm doesn't stop at order taking. It extends to food prep, payment processing, and even the hard sell. Apparently, AI can upsell about 200% of the time, which makes your typical human upseller look like a rookie! The kind of adaptability we're talking about here is bonkers – adding, modifying, and removing items from orders without batting an LED.

And now for the punchline – here's where the laugh might get stuck in your throat. A recent report by Goldman Sachs suggests that the rise of AI could potentially wipe out around 300 million jobs. So, while Holly and her AI pals are filling up positions that fast-food franchises can't, it's creating a "significant disruption" in labor markets worldwide.

Carpenter says that the order-taking gig is one of the least sought-after in the fast-food industry. "Why not let a robot handle that?" he suggests, and as much as I'm an advocate for human interaction, he does have a point. An AI doesn't care if it's 8 a.m. or 2 a.m., it's always ready to take your order, without ever forgetting to ask, "Do you want fries with that?"

So, as you're chomping down your next AI-ordered burger, just remember – you might be getting a glimpse of the future. Whether that's a good or bad thing, I'll let you decide over your next side of fries.

Could AI Be Our Own Worst Enemy? Tech Visionaries Think So

This morning I stumbled upon some chilling news. Apparently, some of the biggest names in tech are telling us the artificial intelligence (AI) they're building might just be the end of us all. The warning, as serious as those concerning pandemics and nuclear war, came from a nonprofit group called the Center for AI Safety, backed by over 350 AI honchos. Talk about a wakeup call!

Among these cautionary voices were industry titans like Sam Altman of OpenAI, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, and Dario Amodei from Anthropic. These folks are not just warning about AI spreading misinformation or stealing jobs, but potentially causing societal-scale chaos. Bit of a pickle, considering they're the ones racing to build this tech, and now they're saying it might need stricter controls.

Interestingly, these warnings aren't just whispers in the wind. They've even been taken to the likes of President Biden and VP Harris. Afterwards, Sam Altman called out in a Senate testimony, expressing the need for government intervention to handle these future AI risks. As Dan Hendrycks from the Center for AI Safety said, a lot of industry insiders have been privately nervous about the tech they're developing.

Sure, there are skeptics saying AI is still too immature to pose a real threat. However, others believe AI's rapid progress is leading us closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI) - AI that can match or even outperforms humans in many tasks. It’s like we’re on the verge of creating our own sci-fi movie reality!

What’s the proposed game plan? According to Altman and his OpenAI crew, we need cooperation among leading AI makers, more research into AI models, and an international AI safety organization. A government license for AI creators is also on the cards. So, here we are, folks. The people shaping the future of AI are urging us to tap the brakes, assess the situation, and proceed with caution. Quite the plot twist in our tech story, isn't it?

AI vs Superbugs: Machine Learning Paves the Way for a New Antibiotic

Imagine a world where even the most potent antibiotics are shrugged off by tiny microbial enemies. This isn't the plot of a science fiction movie; it's a global health crisis in progress. But scientists are now flipping the script, using machine learning—an AI application that learns from past data—to search for new weapons.

Researchers from McMaster University and MIT have successfully employed machine learning to screen thousands of molecules, a process akin to finding a needle in a gargantuan haystack. Their efforts yielded an impressive new contender in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria: an antibacterial compound named abaucin.

Now, let's pause for a moment to consider the implications. Acinetobacter baumannii, the superbug in question, is a notorious character. It thrives in hospitals, inflicts serious infections, and has developed resistance to most antibiotics. In short, it's a formidable foe. The discovery of abaucin, although still in early stages and successful in treating infected wounds in mice, marks a significant breakthrough.

This achievement underscores AI's transformative potential in the healthcare landscape. We're not merely talking about streamlining processes or enhancing diagnostic accuracy. This is about a paradigm shift in drug discovery and disease management, potentially turning the tide in our ongoing struggle against superbugs. AI, with its unparalleled speed and processing power, could become our most powerful ally in the quest to safeguard human health.

 📰 News From The Front Lines: 📰

📚 RESEARCH 📚

Let's dive into the research behind VOYAGER, an AI agent designed for the open-ended world of Minecraft. This isn't just a tool for gamers, it's a significant leap in AI research. VOYAGER is a lifelong learning agent that continuously explores, acquires diverse skills, and makes novel discoveries without human intervention. It's a testament to the power of large language models (LLMs) and their potential to revolutionize how we interact with digital environments.

VOYAGER's design is composed of three key components: an automatic curriculum for exploration, a skill library for storing complex behaviors, and an iterative prompting mechanism for program improvement. This structure allows VOYAGER to learn and adapt over time, demonstrating a strong in-context lifelong learning capability.

The implications of this research are profound. VOYAGER outperforms other AI methods by obtaining 3.3× more unique items, traveling 2.3× longer distances, and unlocking key tech tree milestones up to 15.3× faster. This shows that AI can not only learn and adapt in complex environments, but can also excel in them.

In essence, this research paper presents a significant advancement in AI capabilities, demonstrating the potential of AI to learn, adapt, and excel in complex, open-ended environments. It's not just about playing a game, it's about pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve.

 📼 Video Of The Day 📼

🛠️ Tools Of The Day 🛠️

Codeify - Accelerate your coding journey with a suite of AI-powered tools

ToDo - The Ultimate To-Do List App for Tasks and Project Management!

Scribe - Turn any process into a step-by-step guide, instantly.

Maverick - Record yourself once, and generate thousands of personalized videos for all customers using AI.

Lovo - This tool enables content creators of all types to produce high-quality voices while working within tighter budget constraints.

Jobdai - discover AI jobs, startups, companies, and benefits.

BONUS FREE TOOL WORTH INSTALLING FROM GITHUB

This AI tool enables real-time transcriptions for your microphone input AND speaker output. It then generates a response for the user to answer questions based on the live conversation:

🤌 Prompt Of The Day 🤌

Provided by: Prompts Daily

Here’s how to make ChatGPT write like you, or anyone you want:

Act as a tone analyzer. Analyze the writing style and tone of [extract]. Create a description of that text's style and tone that can be used to recreate more text in that style. You are not to take any context or information from the "extract" below. The extract shared in this prompt is PURELY for tone analysis purposes.

Example: The author's writing style in this text is concise, informative and uses a journalistic tone. They maintain a smooth flow throughout the text. They use precise and clear language.

Format: Bullet pointed list
 
Extract = [Insert Here] 

Using the analyzed tone, rewrite [text].

Text = [Insert Here]

If you like this prompt and want an entire database of useful prompts, I recommend subscribing to Prompts Daily. It’s another great newsletter source on developments in AI but mostly focuses on helping you improve your prompt game!

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