Transforming Manufacturing with AI

AI Video is Now Telling Full Stories, A Robotics Revolution, Business Through an AI Lens, Small & Powerful AI, Anthropic to Unveil Advanced AI Assistants (plus an AI comic!)

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Brad Reynolds
February 19, 2025

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Welcome to Crawl Walk Run AI, curated by Brad Reynolds. I hope you're enjoying this weekly newsletter focused on keeping you informed about the AI world. Let me know if there are any topics you'd like to read about!

Anthropic to Unveil Advanced AI Assistants
The Decoder

  • Anthropic plans "virtual collaborators" to autonomously learn and perform tasks .

  • New language model with enhanced reasoning skills launching within six months.

  • Anthropic's agent expected to compete with OpenAI's upcoming "Operator."

  • Anthropic CEO sees AI eventually surpassing human capabilities in multiple tasks..

Very Small, Yet Powerful, AI
SiliconANGLE

  • Hugging Face launches a compact vision language model for limited hardware.

  • It works on laptops and browsers using WebGPU, enhancing accessibility.

  • Performs well on tasks like document analysis and image captioning.

  • Offers better performance with suitable memory efficiency for demanding jobs..

Transforming Manufacturing with AI
World Economic Forum

  • AI Mfg. investments may grow 57% by 2026, boosting revenue and efficiency.

  • AI Predictive testing reduces product testing time/improves work cycles by 23%.

  • AI quality control cuts production downtime 51%, enhancing customer response.

  • "Lights-out factory" uses AI for automated testing, increasing productivity 33%..

  • CEOs will soon manage both human and digital workers, says Salesforce's Benioff.

  • AI integration boosts productivity, not the size of human workforces.

  • World Economic Forum predicts 41% workforce reduction by 2030 due to AI.

  • Human-machine collaboration aims to enhance skills rather than replace jobs..

  • Yann LeCun predicts a new AI architecture paradigm within 3 to 5 years.

  • Current LLMs fall short due to limitations in reasoning and planning.

  • "World models" aim to enhance AI with memory, common sense, and intuition.

  • Robotics may play a central role in future AI applications during the next decade..

  • Google Labs shares a short, AI animated film, KITSUNE.

  • Written, created and directed by @henrydaubrez.

  • All shots generated with Veo 2 using VideoFX.

  • Finally starting to see stories being told, moving beyond psychedelic shorts..

If you have any data or AI topics you'd like us to cover, or if you have questions about implementing Artificial Intelligence in your organization, please reach out!  It's a pleasure exploring this new world of technology with you all.

Sincerely,
Brad

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