AI takes flight...LITERALLY!

Your meal for today includes:

• Prompt engineering: AI’s new skill!

• AI that can fly! Yes, you heard that correctly…F.L.Y. Fly!

• Can AI help with opioid addiction?

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Snacks

Prompt Engineering: The six-figure AI skill.

What is prompt engineering? Simply put, prompt engineering is the art of feeding a generative model instructions (“prompt”) in the most optimal way to get the best results.

It can sound simple, but it actually is an art. You have to know how to craft the perfect combination of words together to get exactly what you’re expecting (or close to it).

Currently, Anthropic is willing to pay 6 figures to the prompt engineer who can do this to perfection.

According to their standards, you will need to have a little bit of programming experience. Mainly in Python (which will probably be the dominant language of AI).

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Meals

Can an AI Fly?

Yes, AI indeed can fly.

Lockheed Martin’s VISTA X-62A took flight for over 17 hours.

This marked the first time AI occupied a tactical aircraft. We’re witnessing history!

Fun fact: In June 2021 VISTA was deemed by the U.S Air Force to be a..wait for it…NATIONAL ASSET! WOW! I honestly can’t say that I disagree that it’s an asset. 

How it works, in a nutshell, is that VISTA is built on top of software that “allows it to mimic the performance characteristics of other aircraft”.

This an obvious prelude to the impact that AI will have on warfare. Which is slightly terrifying, yet will be interesting to watch.

Will AI help with the opioid crisis?

America has a drug overdose crisis, enter AI.

According to this article, every year, 80,000 Americans die from overdoses.

One medical researcher believes that opioid addiction can be fought by creating medicines that block the kappa-opioid receptor. easy fix, right? Well..not quite.

Problem: Finding medicine that blocks the kappa-opioid receptor consumes a lot of resources (time and money).

Solution: Machine learning trained to identify those that are most vulnerable to opioid addiction.

Bang!

Essentially machine learning will take in data and begin to recognize patterns from that data (literally the definition of machine learning..teehee). So, what that means is that the time (and expense) from research to creation of a new (and possibly more effective) medicine will be shortened.

AI being in position to cut down on the number of opioid addictions is pretty huge. I’m excited to watch this unfold!