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08/08/2024

GLOBAL INVESTMENT CONFERENCE for AFRICA 2024

Vision for a Smart, Integrated First-world Africa

Date: 28-30 October 2024
Venue: Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand, South Africa

Reserve your spot at the biggest Global Investment Conference for Africa 2024!

THE FUTURE IS AFRICA!

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Edith Chibhamu, Jacques Ludik, Charles Nyabaya, BLUEFIN GOLD GROUP, CORTEX AI GROUP, Vive Teens

Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa | MIIA, FairPlanet, SwissCognitive | AI Ventures, Advisory & Research, Cirrus AI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, AI at Meta, AICE Africa, DSNai - Data Science Nigeria, Intelliverse.ai, Compu-Connect Education, Cirrus AI, Ai Kenya, Technology Innovation Institute, G42, Core42 Gulf General Investment Co PSC, Al Mazrouei Investments, Ghobash Group, Emirates National Investment, Century Financial, AIX Investment Group, IBG International Business Group, Rasameel Investment Company شركة رساميل للاستثمار, AI at Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google DeepMind, Inflection AI, Mistral AI, NVIDIA Anthropic, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, Intel Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Baidu Venture, Khosla Ventures,
Sustainable Technology Venture Capital (STVC) Fund of funds

Democratizing Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone: Shaping a Better Future in the Smart Technology Era (jacquesludik.com)

Democratizing AI Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eK8AxHG2

08/03/2024

Excellent conversation between Lex Fridman and Yann LeCun about AI at Meta, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI and the Future of AI.

Good background for some of the technical discussion on Yann's proposals and work can be found in some of his papers such as "A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence" https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf

See also my article on “Intelligent Agents, AGI, Active inference and the Free Energy Principle” and questions about reasoning, understanding, goals, planning, agency etc. to make real progress in AI. https://lnkd.in/d4WebpXs and https://lnkd.in/gE_5m9vC.

See also other articles in the "Democratizing AI" Newsletter https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/democratizing-ai-6906521507938258944/

Some of the key topics addressed in Lex's latest discussion with Yann:

🎾 Importance of open source AI in countering concentration of power and shaping a positive future for humanity.

See also my book on "Democratizing Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone: Shaping a Better Future in the Smart Technology Era" jacquesludik.com that shares similar sentiments.

🎾 The process of language generation involves auto regressive prediction, distinct from pre-planning speech regardless of language.

🎾 Training joint embedding predictive architecture (JEPA) requires contrastive learning to avoid collapse and produce meaningful representations.

🎾 Innovative AI techniques: I-JEPA and V-JEPA for image and video masking, improving video representation prediction.

🎾 Self-supervised learning in AR LLMs.

🎾 Uncovering the depth of human communication beyond language through implicit cues and humor.

🎾 Development of a new AI system for complex problem-solving using internal world models.

🎾 Recommendations to shift from generative models to joint embedding architectures for improved image representation.

🎾 Utilizing open source platforms to enhance AI systems for diverse applications and industries.

🎾 Ethical considerations in AI development, including defining hate speech and dangerous content, and the limitations of large language models.

🎾 Intelligence is multidimensional, making it impossible to compare entities based on skills. AI doomers' catastrophic scenarios are based on false assumptions.

🎾 Fear of new technology's societal impact is rooted in human psychology and resistance to change.

🎾 Challenges in training world models, planning in non-physical systems, and scaling up innovative work in AI learning world models, reasoning, understanding, goals, planning, agency, etc., that are all key to making real progress in AI.

https://youtu.be/5t1vTLU7s40?si=yWRBDMdP6E7R6vzV

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the most influential researchers in the history of AI. Please...

21/07/2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Web3 are two of the most transformative technologies of our time. AI has already become a central building block of the world’s software, with PwC estimating that by 2030, AI will contribute a staggering $15.7 trillion to the global economy, resulting in a 14% increase in global GDP. As we transition to Web3, the decentralized web, AI will play an increasingly important role in shaping the landscape of our digital world.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-web3-next-generation-internet-decentralized-world-jacques-ludik

"Democratizing Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone: Shaping a Better Future in the Smart Technology Era" jacquesludik.com

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Web3 are two of the most transformative technologies of our time. AI has already become a central building block of the world’s software, with PwC estimating that by 2030, AI will contribute a staggering $15.

19/07/2023

We welcome Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa - MIIA as a Strategic Partner of the Conference 2023 .

Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa - MIIA is an that builds an -powered Africa through an innovative & collaborative , AI & community.

Find out more: http://miiafrica.org

19/07/2023

It is an honour to have Dr Jacques Ludik Ludik again selected as a Global AI Ambassador of SwissCognitive, World-Leading AI Network. He has been involved with this prestigious and fast-growing international AI network, wonderfully led by DALITH Steiger-Gablinger💃🏻 and THE AI ANDY FITZE 🧠⛵, for a number of years and speaking at a number of events. This organisation has the shared passion and mission of combining human and artificial intelligence and paving the path to a future that is filled with high-performing businesses and equitable economic advancement for societies globally.

The Global AI Ambassador program unites selected leading AI experts and thought leaders from various industries worldwide with the shared mission of promoting responsible and equitable AI adoption for the benefit of all. This also aligns with Dr Jacques Ludik's recent book "Democratizing Artificial Intelligence to Benefit Everyone: Shaping a Better Future in the Smart Technology Era" (see jacquesludik.com for links to paperback, audio and PDF versions). See also the Democratizing AI Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/democratizing-ai-6906521507938258944/

The 31 Global AI Ambassadors from from 6 continents and 18 countries will collaborate, share knowledge and best practices, and communicate openly and transparently about the opportunities and challenges presented by AI.

The 2023 Global AI Ambassadors include Aurelie Jacquet, Andrea Iorio, Alisha Arora, Romaric REDON, Dr. rer.nat. Corina Apachițe, Daniela Rittmeier, Charlette Desirée N'Guessan, Cristian Randieri PhD, Reema Diab, Christophe Zoghbi, Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji, Simon See, Jacques Ludik, Eloy Sasot, Jair Ribeiro, Linda Leopold, Andrea Latino, Isabelle Flückiger, Dr. Ebrahim Al Alkeem Al Zaabi, Ph.D., David Wood, Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos, PhD, Andreas Welsch, Jarrod Anderson, Jeff Winter, Katia Walsh, Ph.D., Okezue Bell, Pascal BORNET, Patrick Bangert, Stacie Konan, Semih Kumluk, Ph.D. (abd), Uri Eliabayev.

They will all empower the adoption of AI in a responsible way that benefits society as a whole.

AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we work and live, but we must approach this new era with caution and responsibility. By working together, we can ensure that AI is integrated in a way that benefits all and helps to create a brighter future for everyone.

Livia Spiesz

19/07/2023

Dr Jacques Ludik is one of the 31 Global AI Ambassadors of the SwissCognitive, World-Leading AI Network selected from 6 continents and 18 countries who will collaborate, share knowledge and best practices, and communicate openly and transparently about the opportunities and challenges presented by , and promoting responsible and equitable adoption for the benefit of all.

, , DALITH Steiger-Gablinger💃🏻 THE AI ANDY FITZE 🧠⛵ Livia Spiesz