Unlock 10x productivity with the top five prompt engineering frameworks

In today’s newsletter:

• ABA Podcast with Leo Jiang - EP1: Interview with Chief Data & AI Officer of Huawei.

• Tutorial: How to Harness the Power of LLMs to unlock 10X productivity

• Alibaba releases Qwen2-Math

• Hugging Face acquires XetHub

• 4 AI tools in the spotlight

Read time: 4-5 mins

Episode 1 - HUAWEI Chief AI Officer: The Decay of Cognitive Intelligence in the Age of Generative AI

Leo Jiang interviews Dr. Ashley Fernandez, Chief Data and AI Officer at Huawei, on the topics “(1) Is AI a booster or hindrance to human intelligence, and (2) how AI is profoundly changing the world today yet deeply and quietly steering the direction of our future?”. Leo and Ashley discuss how generative AI is affecting human creativity and cognitive intelligence.

One key focus is how generative AI drives a subtle dependency on AI tools, often bypassing fundamental cognitive processes like acquiring and synthesizing information. This dependency can affect our ability to discover, rationalize, and imagine, as we forgo the steps that build and append to our cognitive repositories.

Chapters:

• 00:00 Introduction and Overview

• 03:24 The Evolution of AI Tools and the Decline in Competency

• 06:42 The Importance of Fundamental Knowledge in AI

• 17:40 The Drawbacks of Over-Reliance on AI Tools

• 23:01 The Decline in Attention Span and Cognitive Perseverance

• 28:14 Balancing AI and Human Intelligence

Check out the episode here → Youtube | Spotify | Apple  | RSS 

Apps such as ChatGPT and Perplexity, powered by LLMs, will become everyday tools similar to MS Word and Excel. Therefore, what matters the most to a working professional is how we derive value from these models and how you get these apps to work for you at their best.

That comes to an essential technique that every IT professional needs to master → prompt engineering.

Unlock 10x productivity with the top five prompt engineering frameworks. Check out this article/tutorial here.

News from Asia:

• Alibaba launches Qwen2-Math LLMs, said to outperform OpenAI, Google models

• China courts have handed down a series of landmark judgments regarding IP rights in the AI context.

• Intel’s new chip, Arc Graphics for Automotive discrete GPU, is to power Chinese carmakers’ in-vehicles AI programs.

• Kylinsoft launches openKylin 2.0 - China’s 1st AI-powered PC operating system (OS), addressing a gap in edge-side inference capabilities within China’s OS industry.

News from the West:

• OpenAI released the System Card on GPT-4o which scored the model as “Medium Risk”, especially in the persuasion category - causing some concerns for potential harm towards the upcoming U.S. elections.

• Elon has agreed to (temporarily) stop using data from EU X users to train Grok after DPC sued over mishandling of personal data without consent.

• JP Morgan introduced LLM suites, a generative AI tool acting as a gateway to external LLMs such as ChatGPT, to over 60,000 employees.

• Hugging Face acquires XetHub, a U.S. startup specialising in file management for AI projects, to enhance AI infrastructure offerings.

• Following in Dell’s footsteps, Cisco plans to eliminate 4000 jobs by the end of this year to focus on cybersecurity and AI.

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