Tech Vision

On April 2nd - at SRM institute - on Gen AI and it's impact in research and engineering. Inaugural speech

As AI continues to evolve, its impact on all facets of society will only intensify. There, of course, remain a lot of red flags around the tech, but as the 15 companies below show, it’s also already demonstrated some incredible capabilities.

1. PERPLEXITY
For finding the answer to the web search’s problems

2. VIZ.AI
For giving doctors superpowers when diagnosing patients

3. GOOGLE DEEPMIND
For illuminating the secrets of the genome

4. SALESFORCE
For arming AI apps with secure corporate data

5. CASETEXT, PART OF THOMSON REUTERS
For assigning every attorney an AI co-counsel

6. INTERPLAY LEARNING
For helping a new generation train for the trades

7. BIDGELY
For managing utility power consumption

8. AMP
For seeing a major pain point in recycling

9. INDEED
For letting AI crank out job descriptions

10. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY
For discovering climate “tipping points”

11. FIGMA
For keeping design teams in the zone

12. METAPHYSIC.AI
For providing a safe space for actors’ digital selves

13. SEEKR
For keeping an ear out for misinformation and vitriol

14. LIVEPERSON
For replacing hold music with AI voice chat

15. NAVAN
For taking some of the pain out of filing expense reports

There’s generative AI, of course, which is being built atop the chips and platforms of this year’s No. 1 company, Nvidia, and popularized by the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft. Emerging AI companies are also making their mark, whether that’s by managing the risks around the technology (Credo AI) or creating an entirely new way to search the web (Perplexity). But the science fiction made real doesn’t stop there. Over the past year, Vertex Pharmaceuticals brought the first CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing treatment to market, KinetX helped navigate a spacecraft on a 4.4 billion-mile mission to land on an asteroid and return home, and Climeworks used direct air capture to scrub carbon from the atmosphere. Not-for-profit 4 Day Week Global, meanwhile, has done the seemingly impossible: convince companies around the world to adopt a shorter workweek. While new technologies fuel innovation, our rankings of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies—and the 58 lists that chronicle forward-looking organizations in sectors from advertising to video—showcase deeply human stories. Taylor Swift Productions, Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment, Sphere Entertainment, and Mattel have demonstrated the power of collective, in-person experiences. The National Women’s Soccer League is taking sports fandom to new levels. The United Auto Workers is pushing companies to center labor even as they pursue innovation. And everywhere, companies are finding new ways to connect to culture and delight consumers, from Taco Bell and J.M. Smucker’s embrace of playful foods to Chess.com’s efforts to turn a centuries-old game into must-see reality TV. The challenges facing business and the planet are immense, but the process of selecting these winners gave us optimism.

https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/list

The World's Most Innovative Companies of 2024 Fast Company's 2024 ranking of the World's Most Innovative Companies features Nvidia at No. 1 and covers 58 industries, from advertising, beauty, and retail to enterprise technology, design, and social impact.

Let’s begin the lecture by exploring various examples of LLM agents. While the topic is widely discussed, few are actively utilizing agents; often, what we perceive as agents are simply large language models. Let’s consider such a simple task as searching for football game results and saving them as a CSV file.

Intro to LLM Agents with Langchain: When RAG is Not Enough First-order principles of brain structure for AI assistants