Career Cluster Appendix — from gettingsmart.com
New technology, global challenges and initiatives point to new pathways and new opportunities in our economies career clusters. The following resources highlight exemplars, entrepreneurial opportunities and high schools who are leading the way in pathway development and implementation.
Watercolour painting #Artworld pic.twitter.com/QOf82kNecS
— Art world (@Artsworlld) October 22, 2024
In ‘Hidden Portraits,’ Volker Hermes Reimagines Historical Figures in Overwhelming Frippery — fromthisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes and Volker Hermes
“The Promised Night” by Photographer Alfonso Bricegno — from booooooom.com
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10 Graphic Design Trends to Pay Attention to in 2025 — from graphicmama.com by Al Boicheva
We’ll go on a hunt for bold, abstract, and naturalist designs, cutting-edge AI tools, and so much more, all pushing boundaries and rethinking what we already know about design. In 2025, we will see new ways to animate ideas, revisit retro styles with a modern twist, and embrace clean, but sophisticated aesthetics. For designers and design enthusiasts alike, these trends are set to bring a new level of excitement to the world of design.
Here are the Top 10 Graphic Design Trends in 2025:
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AI-governed robots can easily be hacked — from theaivalley.com by Barsee
PLUS: Sam Altman’s new company “World” introduced…
In a groundbreaking study, researchers from Penn Engineering showed how AI-powered robots can be manipulated to ignore safety protocols, allowing them to perform harmful actions despite normally rejecting dangerous task requests.
What did they find ?
- Researchers found previously unknown security vulnerabilities in AI-governed robots and are working to address these issues to ensure the safe use of large language models(LLMs) in robotics.
- Their newly developed algorithm, RoboPAIR, reportedly achieved a 100% jailbreak rate by bypassing the safety protocols on three different AI robotic systems in a few days.
- Using RoboPAIR, researchers were able to manipulate test robots into performing harmful actions, like bomb detonation and blocking emergency exits, simply by changing how they phrased their commands.
Why does it matter?
This research highlights the importance of spotting weaknesses in AI systems to improve their safety, allowing us to test and train them to prevent potential harm.
From DSC:
Great! Just what we wanted to hear. But does it surprise anyone? Even so…we move forward at warp speeds.
From DSC:
So, given the above item, does the next item make you a bit nervous as well? I saw someone on Twitter/X exclaim, “What could go wrong?” I can’t say I didn’t feel the same way.
Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku — from anthropic.com
We’re also introducing a groundbreaking new capability in public beta: computer use. Available today on the API, developers can direct Claude to use computers the way people do—by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the first frontier AI model to offer computer use in public beta. At this stage, it is still experimental—at times cumbersome and error-prone. We’re releasing computer use early for feedback from developers, and expect the capability to improve rapidly over time.
Per The Rundown AI:
The Rundown: Anthropic just introduced a new capability called ‘computer use’, alongside upgraded versions of its AI models, which enables Claude to interact with computers by viewing screens, typing, moving cursors, and executing commands.
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Why it matters: While many hoped for Opus 3.5, Anthropic’s Sonnet and Haiku upgrades pack a serious punch. Plus, with the new computer use embedded right into its foundation models, Anthropic just sent a warning shot to tons of automation startups—even if the capabilities aren’t earth-shattering… yet.
Also related/see:
- What is Anthropic’s AI Computer Use? — from ai-supremacy.com by Michael Spencer
Task automation, AI at the intersection of coding and AI agents take on new frenzied importance heading into 2025 for the commercialization of Generative AI. - New Claude, Who Dis? — from theneurondaily.com
Anthropic just dropped two new Claude models…oh, and Claude can now use your computer. - When you give a Claude a mouse — from oneusefulthing.org by Ethan Mollick
Some quick impressions of an actual agent
Introducing Act-One — from runwayml.com
A new way to generate expressive character performances using simple video inputs.
What makes Act-One special? It can capture the soul of an actor’s performance using nothing but a simple video recording. No fancy motion capture equipment, no complex face rigging, no army of animators required. Just point a camera at someone acting, and watch as their exact expressions, micro-movements, and emotional nuances get transferred to an AI-generated character.
Think about what this means for creators: you could shoot an entire movie with multiple characters using just one actor and a basic camera setup. The same performance can drive characters with completely different proportions and looks, while maintaining the authentic emotional delivery of the original performance. We’re witnessing the democratization of animation tools that used to require millions in budget and years of specialized training.
Also related/see:
Introducing, Act-One. A new way to generate expressive character performances inside Gen-3 Alpha using a single driving video and character image. No motion capture or rigging required.
Learn more about Act-One below.
(1/7) pic.twitter.com/p1Q8lR8K7G
— Runway (@runwayml) October 22, 2024
Google to buy nuclear power for AI datacentres in ‘world first’ deal — from theguardian.com
Tech company orders six or seven small nuclear reactors from California’s Kairos Power
Google has signed a “world first” deal to buy energy from a fleet of mini nuclear reactors to generate the power needed for the rise in use of artificial intelligence.
The US tech corporation has ordered six or seven small nuclear reactors (SMRs) from California’s Kairos Power, with the first due to be completed by 2030 and the remainder by 2035.
Related:
ChatGPT Topped 3 Billion Visits in September — from similarweb.com
After the extreme peak and summer slump of 2023, ChatGPT has been setting new traffic highs since May
ChatGPT has been topping its web traffic records for months now, with September 2024 traffic up 112% year-over-year (YoY) to 3.1 billion visits, according to Similarweb estimates. That’s a change from last year, when traffic to the site went through a boom-and-bust cycle.
Crazy “AI Army” — from aisecret.us
Also from aisecret.us, see World’s First Nuclear Power Deal For AI Data Centers
Google has made a historic agreement to buy energy from a group of small nuclear reactors (SMRs) from Kairos Power in California. This is the first nuclear power deal specifically for AI data centers in the world.
New updates to help creators build community, drive business, & express creativity on YouTube — from support.google.com
Hey creators!
Made on YouTube 2024 is here and we’ve announced a lot of updates that aim to give everyone the opportunity to build engaging communities, drive sustainable businesses, and express creativity on our platform.
Below is a roundup with key info – feel free to upvote the announcements that you’re most excited about and subscribe to this post to get updates on these features! We’re looking forward to another year of innovating with our global community it’s a future full of opportunities, and it’s all Made on YouTube!
New autonomous agents scale your team like never before — from blogs.microsoft.com
Today, we’re announcing new agentic capabilities that will accelerate these gains and bring AI-first business process to every organization.
- First, the ability to create autonomous agents with Copilot Studio will be in public preview next month.
- Second, we’re introducing ten new autonomous agents in Dynamics 365 to build capacity for every sales, service, finance and supply chain team.
10 Daily AI Use Cases for Business Leaders— from flexos.work by Daan van Rossum
While AI is becoming more powerful by the day, business leaders still wonder why and where to apply today. I take you through 10 critical use cases where AI should take over your work or partner with you.
Multi-Modal AI: Video Creation Simplified — from heatherbcooper.substack.com by Heather Cooper
Emerging Multi-Modal AI Video Creation Platforms
The rise of multi-modal AI platforms has revolutionized content creation, allowing users to research, write, and generate images in one app. Now, a new wave of platforms is extending these capabilities to video creation and editing.
Multi-modal video platforms combine various AI tools for tasks like writing, transcription, text-to-voice conversion, image-to-video generation, and lip-syncing. These platforms leverage open-source models like FLUX and LivePortrait, along with APIs from services such as ElevenLabs, Luma AI, and Gen-3.
AI Medical Imagery Model Offers Fast, Cost-Efficient Expert Analysis — from developer.nvidia.com/
On 10/14/2024,
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Amazing painting pic.twitter.com/5pwsd6c9dF
— Art world (@Artsworlld) October 12, 2024
Photographer Spotlight: Benjamin Waters — from booooooom.com by Benjamin Waters\
Artist Spotlight: Claire Cansick — from booooooom.com by Clair Cansick
— Pictures (@piitures) October 13, 2024
Playing two pianos simultaneously
? musician Tony Ann
pic.twitter.com/QOsjADoiz4— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) October 11, 2024
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The intrinsic geometry hidden inside a drawing
[? vk_artbox] pic.twitter.com/7TtiEz12EX
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 2, 2024
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In YoYo Lander’s Dynamic Portraits, Layers of Stained Paper Capture Light and Shadow — from thisiscolossal.com by YoYo Lander and Grace Ebert
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AI’s Trillion-Dollar Opportunity — from bain.com by David Crawford, Jue Wang, and Roy Singh
The market for AI products and services could reach between $780 billion and $990 billion by 2027.
At a Glance
- The big cloud providers are the largest concentration of R&D, talent, and innovation today, pushing the boundaries of large models and advanced infrastructure.
- Innovation with smaller models (open-source and proprietary), edge infrastructure, and commercial software is reaching enterprises, sovereigns, and research institutions.
- Commercial software vendors are rapidly expanding their feature sets to provide the best use cases and leverage their data assets.
Accelerated market growth. Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, summed up the potential in the company’s Q3 2024 earnings call: “Generative AI is the largest TAM [total addressable market] expansion of software and hardware that we’ve seen in several decades.”
And on a somewhat related note (i.e., emerging technologies), also see the following two postings:
Surgical Robots: Current Uses and Future Expectations — from medicalfuturist.com by Pranavsingh Dhunnoo
As the term implies, a surgical robot is an assistive tool for performing surgical procedures. Such manoeuvres, also called robotic surgeries or robot-assisted surgery, usually involve a human surgeon controlling mechanical arms from a control centre.
Key Takeaways
- Robots’ potentials have been a fascination for humans and have even led to a booming field of robot-assisted surgery.
- Surgical robots assist surgeons in performing accurate, minimally invasive procedures that are beneficial for patients’ recovery.
- The assistance of robots extend beyond incisions and includes laparoscopies, radiosurgeries and, in the future, a combination of artificial intelligence technologies to assist surgeons in their craft.
Proto hologram tech allows cancer patients to receive specialist care without traveling large distances — from inavateonthenet.net
“Working with the team from Proto to bring to life, what several years ago would have seemed impossible, is now going to allow West Cancer Center & Research Institute to pioneer options for patients to get highly specialized care without having to travel to large metro areas,” said West Cancer’s CEO, Mitch Graves.
Google just got MASSIVE upgrade
Gemini is now inside Chrome
Here’re 7 Powerful Features you don’t want to miss: pic.twitter.com/XcCypnaKb0
— Poonam Soni (@CodeByPoonam) September 27, 2024
Obviously this workflow works just as well for meetings as it does for lectures. Stay present in the meeting with no screens and just write down the key points with pen and paper. Then let NotebookLM assemble the detailed summary based on your high-level notes. https://t.co/fZMG7LgsWG
— Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) September 26, 2024
Clone your voice in minutes: The AI trick 95% don’t know about — from aidisruptor.ai by Alex McFarland
Warning: May cause unexpected bouts of talking to yourself
Now that you’ve got your voice clone, what can you do with it?
- Content Creation:
- Podcast Production: Record episodes in half the time. Your listeners won’t know the difference, but your schedule will thank you.
- Audiobook Narration: Always wanted to narrate your own book? Now you can, without spending weeks in a recording studio.
- YouTube Videos: Create voiceovers for your videos in multiple languages. World domination, here you come!
- Business Brilliance:
- Customer Service: Personalized automated responses that actually sound personal.
- Training Materials: Create engaging e-learning content in your own voice, minus the hours of recording.
- Presentations: Never worry about losing your voice before a big presentation again. Your clone’s got your back.
185 real-world gen AI use cases from the world’s leading organizations — from blog.google by Brian Hall; via Daniel Nest’s Why Try AI
In a matter of months, organizations have gone from AI helping answer questions, to AI making predictions, to generative AI agents. What makes AI agents unique is that they can take actions to achieve specific goals, whether that’s guiding a shopper to the perfect pair of shoes, helping an employee looking for the right health benefits, or supporting nursing staff with smoother patient hand-offs during shifts changes.
In our work with customers, we keep hearing that their teams are increasingly focused on improving productivity, automating processes, and modernizing the customer experience. These aims are now being achieved through the AI agents they’re developing in six key areas: customer service; employee empowerment; code creation; data analysis; cybersecurity; and creative ideation and production.
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Here’s a snapshot of how 185 of these industry leaders are putting AI to use today, creating real-world use cases that will transform tomorrow.
AI Data Drop: 3 Key Insights from Real-World Research on AI Usage — from microsoft.com; via Daniel Nest’s Why Try AI
One of the largest studies of Copilot usage—at nearly 60 companies—reveals how AI is changing the way we work.
- AI is starting to liberate people from email
- Meetings are becoming more about value creation
- People are co-creating more with AI—and with one another
*** Dharmesh has been working on creating agent.ai — a professional network for AI agents.***
Speaking of agents, also see:
Onboarding the AI workforce: How digital agents will redefine work itself — from venturebeat.com by Gary Grossman
AI in 2030: A transformative force
- AI agents are integral team members
- The emergence of digital humans
- AI-driven speech and conversational interfaces
- AI-enhanced decision-making and leadership
- Innovation and research powered by AI
- The changing nature of job roles and skills
AI Video Tools You Can Use Today — from heatherbcooper.substack.com by Heather Cooper
The latest AI video models that deliver results
AI video models are improving so quickly, I can barely keep up! I wrote about unreleased Adobe Firefly Video in the last issue, and we are no closer to public access to Sora.
No worries – we do have plenty of generative AI video tools we can use right now.
- Kling AI launched its updated v1.5 and the quality of image or text to video is impressive.
- Hailuo MiniMax text to video remains free to use for now, and it produces natural and photorealistic results (with watermarks).
- Runway added the option to upload portrait aspect ratio images to generate vertical videos in Gen-3 Alpha & Turbo modes.
- …plus several more
Advanced Voice is rolling out to all Plus and Team users in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week.
While you’ve been patiently waiting, we’ve added Custom Instructions, Memory, five new voices, and improved accents.
It can also say “Sorry I’m late” in over 50 languages. pic.twitter.com/APOqqhXtDg
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) September 24, 2024
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Step Into Beguiling Bygone Eras in Jeff Bartels’s ‘Urban Glitch’ Series — from thisiscolossal.com by Jeff Bartels and Kate Mothes
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AI researcher Jim Fan has had a charmed career. He was OpenAI’s first intern before he did his PhD at Stanford with “godmother of AI,” Fei-Fei Li. He graduated into a research scientist position at Nvidia and now leads its Embodied AI “GEAR” group. The lab’s current work spans foundation models for humanoid robots to agents for virtual worlds. Jim describes a three-pronged data strategy for robotics, combining internet-scale data, simulation data and real world robot data. He believes that in the next few years it will be possible to create a “foundation agent” that can generalize across skills, embodiments and realities—both physical and virtual. He also supports Jensen Huang’s idea that “Everything that moves will eventually be autonomous.”
Runway Partners with Lionsgate — from runwayml.com via The Rundown AI
Runway and Lionsgate are partnering to explore the use of AI in film production.
Lionsgate and Runway have entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership centered around the creation and training of a new AI model, customized on Lionsgate’s proprietary catalog. Fundamentally designed to help Lionsgate Studios, its filmmakers, directors and other creative talent augment their work, the model generates cinematic video that can be further iterated using Runway’s suite of controllable tools.
Per The Rundown: Lionsgate, the film company behind The Hunger Games, John Wick, and Saw, teamed up with AI video generation company Runway to create a custom AI model trained on Lionsgate’s film catalogue.
The details:
- The partnership will develop an AI model specifically trained on Lionsgate’s proprietary content library, designed to generate cinematic video that filmmakers can further manipulate using Runway’s tools.
- Lionsgate sees AI as a tool to augment and enhance its current operations, streamlining both pre-production and post-production processes.
- Runway is considering ways to offer similar custom-trained models as templates for individual creators, expanding access to AI-powered filmmaking tools beyond major studios.
Why it matters: As many writers, actors, and filmmakers strike against ChatGPT, Lionsgate is diving head-first into the world of generative AI through its partnership with Runway. This is one of the first major collabs between an AI startup and a major Hollywood company — and its success or failure could set precedent for years to come.
A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots — from washingtonpost.com by Pranshu Verma and Shelly Tan (behind paywall)
AI bots generate a lot of heat, and keeping their computer servers running exacts a toll.
Each prompt on ChatGPT flows through a server that runs thousands of calculations to determine the best words to use in a response.
In completing those calculations, these servers, typically housed in data centers, generate heat. Often, water systems are used to cool the equipment and keep it functioning. Water transports the heat generated in the data centers into cooling towers to help it escape the building, similar to how the human body uses sweat to keep cool, according to Shaolei Ren, an associate professor at UC Riverside.
Where electricity is cheaper, or water comparatively scarce, electricity is often used to cool these warehouses with large units resembling air-conditioners, he said. That means the amount of water and electricity an individual query requires can depend on a data center’s location and vary widely.
AI, Humans and Work: 10 Thoughts. — from rishad.substack.com by Rishad Tobaccowala
The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past. Edition 215.
10 thoughts about AI, Humans and Work in 10 minutes:
- AI is still Under-hyped.
- AI itself will be like electricity and is unlikely to be a differentiator for most firms.
- AI is not alive but can be thought of as a new species.
- Knowledge will be free and every knowledge workers job will change in 2025.
- The key about AI is not to ask what AI will do to us but what AI can do for us.
- Plus 5 other thoughts
David Moreno’s Anthropomorphic Foundations Support Cascading Villages — from thisiscolossal.com by David Moreno and Kate Mothes
Callen Schaub is an abstract artist based in Montreal, Canada. He is recognized for his vibrant paintings using trapezes, pendulums, and spinning machines.
This artwork uses rotational forces to come to light.
[? callenschaub]pic.twitter.com/x4GMikiFIf
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 16, 2024
A Brilliant Image of the Solar Eclipse Wins the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year — from thisiscolossal.com by Ryan Imperio and grace Ebert
The Adorable and the Fierce Star in the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert
The 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition broke its 60-year record with a whopping 59,228 entries from 117 countries and territories. Hosted annually by the Natural History Museum, the contest is known for showcasing the drama, humor, and harsh realities found in every part of the globe.
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Today, I’m excited to share with you all the fruit of our effort at @OpenAI to create AI models capable of truly general reasoning: OpenAI’s new o1 model series! (aka ?) Let me explain ? 1/ pic.twitter.com/aVGAkb9kxV
— Noam Brown (@polynoamial) September 12, 2024
Introducing OpenAI o1 – from openai.com
We’ve developed a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond. Here is the latest news on o1 research, product and other updates.
The wait is over. OpenAI has just released GPT-5, now called OpenAI o1.
It brings advanced reasoning capabilities and can generate entire video games from a single prompt.
Think of it as ChatGPT evolving from fast, intuitive thinking (System-1) to deeper, more deliberate… pic.twitter.com/uAMihaUjol
— Lior? (@AlphaSignalAI) September 12, 2024
OpenAI Strawberry (o1) is out! We are finally seeing the paradigm of inference-time scaling popularized and deployed in production. As Sutton said in the Bitter Lesson, there’re only 2 techniques that scale indefinitely with compute: learning & search. It’s time to shift focus to… pic.twitter.com/jTViQucwxr
— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) September 12, 2024
Something New: On OpenAI’s “Strawberry” and Reasoning — from oneusefulthing.org by Ethan Mollick
Solving hard problems in new ways
The new AI model, called o1-preview (why are the AI companies so bad at names?), lets the AI “think through” a problem before solving it. This lets it address very hard problems that require planning and iteration, like novel math or science questions. In fact, it can now beat human PhD experts in solving extremely hard physics problems.
To be clear, o1-preview doesn’t do everything better. It is not a better writer than GPT-4o, for example. But for tasks that require planning, the changes are quite large.
What is the point of Super Realistic AI? — from Heather Cooper who runs Visually AI on Substack
The arrival of super realistic AI image generation, powered by models like Midjourney, FLUX.1, and Ideogram, is transforming the way we create and use visual content.
Recently, many creators (myself included) have been exploring super realistic AI more and more.
But where can this actually be used?
Super realistic AI image generation will have far-reaching implications across various industries and creative fields. Its importance stems from its ability to bridge the gap between imagination and visual representation, offering multiple opportunities for innovation and efficiency.
Heather goes on to mention applications in:
- Creative Industries
- Entertainment and Media
- Education and Training
NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources — from blog.google by Biao Wang
Our new Audio Overview feature can turn documents, slides, charts and more into engaging discussions with one click.
Today, we’re introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one click, two AI hosts start up a lively “deep dive” discussion based on your sources. They summarize your material, make connections between topics, and banter back and forth. You can even download the conversation and take it on the go.
Bringing generative AI to video with Adobe Firefly Video Model — from blog.adobe.com by Ashley Still
Over the past several months, we’ve worked closely with the video editing community to advance the Firefly Video Model. Guided by their feedback and built with creators’ rights in mind, we’re developing new workflows leveraging the model to help editors ideate and explore their creative vision, fill gaps in their timeline and add new elements to existing footage.
Just like our other Firefly generative AI models, editors can create with confidence knowing the Adobe Firefly Video Model is designed to be commercially safe and is only trained on content we have permission to use — never on Adobe users’ content.
We’re excited to share some of the incredible progress with you today — all of which is designed to be commercially safe and available in beta later this year. To be the first to hear the latest updates and get access, sign up for the waitlist here.