{"id":93700,"date":"2024-11-25T13:38:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=93700"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:41:35","slug":"using-ai-to-develop-soft-skills-plus-the-s-and-s-of-ai-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/11\/25\/using-ai-to-develop-soft-skills-plus-the-s-and-s-of-ai-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AI to develop soft skills. Plus the +&#8217;s and -&#8216;s of AI in general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emergentbehavior.co\/p\/the-race-to-the-top-dario-amodei-on-agi-risks-and-the-future-of-anthropic-f85f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2024-11-22: The Race to the TopDario Amodei on AGI, Risks, and the Future of Anthropic<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from emergentbehavior.co by Prakash (Ate-a-Pi)<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Risks on the Horizon: ASL Levels<br \/>\n<\/b>The two key risks Dario is concerned about are:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">a) cyber, bio, radiological, nuclear (CBRN)<br \/>\nb) model autonomy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p>These risks are captured in Anthropic\u2019s framework for understanding AI Safety Levels (ASL):<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1.\u00a0<b>ASL-1:<\/b> Narrow-task AI like Deep Blue (no autonomy, minimal risk).<br \/>\n2.\u00a0<b>ASL-2:<\/b> Current systems like ChatGPT\/Claude, which lack autonomy and don\u2019t pose significant risks beyond information already accessible via search engines.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0<b>ASL-3:<\/b> Agents arriving soon (potentially next year) that can meaningfully assist non-state actors in dangerous activities like cyber or CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) attacks. Security and filtering are critical at this stage to prevent misuse.<br \/>\n4.\u00a0<b>ASL-4:<\/b> AI smart enough to evade detection, deceive testers, and assist state actors with dangerous projects. AI will be strong enough that you would want to use the model to do anything dangerous. Mechanistic interpretability becomes crucial for verifying AI behavior.<br \/>\n5.\u00a0<b>ASL-5:<\/b> AGI surpassing human intelligence in all domains, posing unprecedented challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Anthropic\u2019s\u00a0<b>if\/then framework<\/b>\u00a0ensures proactive responses: if a model demonstrates danger, the team clamps down hard, enforcing strict controls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embedded post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:7265705627333648385\" width=\"504\" height=\"804\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/24\/business\/computer-coding-boot-camps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Should You Still Learn to Code in an A.I. World?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from nytimes.com by<br \/>\n<em>Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Compared with five years ago, the number of active job postings for software developers has dropped 56 percent, according to data compiled by CompTIA. For inexperienced developers, the plunge is an even worse 67 percent.<br \/>\n\u201cI would say this is the worst environment for entry-level jobs in tech, period, that I\u2019ve seen in 25 years,\u201d said Venky Ganesan, a partner at the venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For years, the career advice from everyone who mattered \u2014 the Apple chief executive Tim Cook, your mother \u2014 was \u201clearn to code.\u201d It felt like an immutable equation: Coding skills + hard work = job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Now the math doesn\u2019t look so simple.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theneurondaily.com\/p\/ai-builds-apps-in-2-mins-flat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI builds apps in 2 mins flat<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; where the Neuron mentions this excerpt about Lovable:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There\u2019s a new coding startup in town, and it just MIGHT have everybody else shaking in their boots (we\u2019ll qualify that in a sec, don\u2019t worry).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It\u2019s called\u00a0Lovable, the \u201cworld\u2019s first AI fullstack engineer.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Lovable does all of that by itself.<\/strong> Tell it what you want to build in plain English, and it creates everything you need. Want users to be able to log in? One click. Need to store data? One click. Want to accept payments? You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Early users are backing up these claims. One person even launched a startup that made Product Hunt&#8217;s top 10 using just Lovable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As for us, we made a\u00a0Wordle clone in 2 minutes\u00a0with one prompt. Only edit needed? More words in the dictionary.\u00a0It\u2019s like, really easy y\u2019all.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aiwithallie.beehiiv.com\/p\/when-to-chat-with-ai-and-when-to-let-it-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>When to chat with AI (and when to let it work)<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from aiwithallie.beehiiv.com by Allie K. Miller<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Re: some ideas on how to use Notebook LM:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn your company&#8217;s annual report into an engaging podcast<\/li>\n<li>Create an interactive FAQ for your product manual<\/li>\n<li>Generate a timeline of your industry&#8217;s history from multiple sources<\/li>\n<li>Produce a study guide for your online course content<\/li>\n<li>Develop a Q&amp;A system for your company&#8217;s knowledge base<\/li>\n<li>Synthesize research papers into digestible summaries<\/li>\n<li>Create an executive content briefing from multiple competitor blog posts<\/li>\n<li>Generate a podcast discussing the key points of a long-form research paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/codesignal.com\/blog\/codesignal-updates\/introducing-conversation-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Introducing conversation practice: AI-powered simulations to build soft skills<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from codesignal.com by Albert Sahakyan<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I have to admit I&#8217;m a bit suspicious here, as the &#8220;conversation practice&#8221; product seems a bit too scripted at times, but I post it because the idea of using AI to practice soft skills development makes a great deal of sense:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lUXIC3MUj24?si=wGBNAosAMySYqS0Z\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is mind-blowing!<\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA has introduced Edify 3D, a 3D AI generator that lets us create high-quality 3D scenes using just a simple prompt. And all the assets are fully editable!<\/p>\n<p>This is going to revolutionise the way we create!<\/p>\n<p>5 Examples: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5yWlvL1cWD\">pic.twitter.com\/5yWlvL1cWD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 el.cine (@EHuanglu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EHuanglu\/status\/1860718399611113835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-11-22: The Race to the TopDario Amodei on AGI, Risks, and the Future of Anthropic &#8212; from emergentbehavior.co by Prakash (Ate-a-Pi) Risks on the Horizon: ASL Levels The two key risks Dario is concerned about are: a) cyber, bio, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) b) model autonomy These risks are captured in Anthropic\u2019s framework for understanding AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,26,356,817,45,533,37,35,178,63,391,419,23,860,869,309,204,855,480,454,195,206,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-3d","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-bots","category-computer-science","category-experimentation","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-google","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-multimedia","category-nvidia","category-open-ai","category-platforms","category-programming","category-skills","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-trends","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93700"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93707,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93700\/revisions\/93707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}