AI isn’t just changing how we work and play, but it’s also helping us rethink our underlying reality itself.

Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, the company behind the wildly popular Fortnite and Unreal Engine, recently delved into a philosophical discussion sparked by the rapid advancements in AI. His musings touch upon the age-old simulation hypothesis, questioning not just the nature of our own reality, but also the reality of our potential creators. What’s particularly intriguing is how Sweeney links the increasing sophistication of AI with the growing plausibility of such thought experiments.

“I don’t know,” Sweeney pondered on the Lex Fridman podcast, “The question of whether we are living in a simulation ourselves always boils down to: if we are living in a simulation, where are *they* living? Because at some point there has to be some base reality.”

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Nvidia and ServiceNow have created an AI model that can help companies create learning AI agents to automate corporate workloads.

The open-source Apriel model, available generally in the second quarter on HuggingFace, will help create AI agents that can make decisions around IT, human resources and customer-service functions.

“If you look at the foundation models, they’re very big, very slow,” Dorit Zilbershot, ServiceNow’s group vice president of AI experiences and innovation, said in an interview. “This is only a 15-billion-parameters model, it’s highly trained on reasoning. We expect the reasoning to be very, very important.

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IN A NUTSHELL The Three Gorges Dam in China is the largest hydroelectric dam globally, symbolizing China’s engineering prowess. NASA suggests that the dam’s massive water displacement might influence Earth’s rotation, affecting the planet’s natural balance. The dam’s reservoir, when full, could lengthen the day by 0.06 microseconds and alter Earth’s shape.

Executive Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing from a tool that assists in data analysis, simulations, and idea generation to more autonomous systems, still on the horizon, capable of generating their own unique inventions.

AI is slated to disrupt traditional jobs, but could also give all people previously unthinkable leverage.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, has shared some compelling thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence. On a podcast, he posited that AI will eventually surpass individual human intelligence, but, interestingly, argued that this is already happening in a certain sense. His core idea revolves around the combined intelligence of large organizations already functioning as a form of “superintelligence” that individuals can tap into, a power he believes AI will democratize.

“I think that we’re going to get general intelligence,” Zuckerberg stated. “We’re going to have systems that are smarter than any individual, and I think it’s mostly going to be very empowering for people.”

Xiaomi Corp. unveiled its own open-source AI model, joining the growing ranks of Chinese tech leaders hoping to make a splash in a burgeoning field endorsed by Beijing.