Representing Swisscom Outpost, Vladimir Michalec had the pleasure of attending the #TEDAI 2024 conference in San Francisco last week. By the way, did you know that #TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design? The first conference was held in 1984 in Monterey, California, where the Compact Disc (CD) was presented as the latest technological invention. It’s great that with TEDAI, the conference returned to TED’s Californian roots. The main TED conference has been held in Vancouver since 2014, but its TEDAI branch took place in San Francisco for the first time in 2023. Thanks to the AI theme, the focus is once again on innovative technology and its impact on our lives. Unsurprisingly, Generative AI (#GenAI) is the hot topic right now. It drives innovation, investments, and life in Silicon Valley today. But it has not yet transformed our lives completely. Yes, there are promises, predictions, expectations—but there’s also a lot of work to be done by researchers, startup founders, and engineers at big enterprises. Some of their best minds gave talks this past week, giving us lots of food for thought. What are the main challenges the industry is facing? Lack of data or data processing efficiency is one of them. Or perhaps the technology we’re building GenAI with is not optimal. Quantum Neomorphic, or maybe Thermodynamic Computing may be the next evolution of AI compute platform. But even today’s GenAI can be used in novel ways to solve our problems, such as building AI agents that “play” the game of designing new drugs for personalized treatment, or creating foundational models of our physical world to give robots the ability to learn and adapt on their own, helping us with daily chores. We can also allow AI models time to “think” before answering, instead of expending more resources on training, to provide us with better solutions. There were many inspiring examples of what’s coming. But as with every new technology, it’s not all roses with GenAI. Some speakers warned us that we need to proactively work with the AI industry to avoid negative impacts on humanity—such as AI stealing our youth’s attention, making them talk to virtual AI friends more than real humans. Or the risk of GenAI models being used for malicious purposes, like attacks on nations or the development of biological weapons. People from the art industry pointed out that with GenAI being ubiquitous, a completely new approach to art and copyright is needed. In all these examples, we heard arguments from both sides, which makes TEDAI a great platform for intelligent discussion — if only this were the case everywhere in our society nowadays. With over 100 AI events in the Bay Area every month, it’s difficult to find the ones that are truly valuable and enriching. After attending TEDAI for the first time, we can definitely say this conference takes one of the top spots, if not the highest. If you can, watch the (hopefully soon) available recordings. It’s truly inspiring!
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