Issue #88 - Attention Farmers

January 14, 2025
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In This Issue

  • What Caught My Attention This Week
    • John Deere claims its self-driving tractors and trucks will help address labor shortages.
    • First real-world test shows AI increases the chances of detecting breast cancer.
    • Wall Street Job Losses May Top 200,000 as AI Replaces Roles.
    • Sam Altman: in 2025 we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce.”
  • What’s AI Doing for Companies Like Mine?
    • Learn what Bloomberg News and Jumbo are doing with AI.
  • The Tools of the Trade
    • HeyGen avatar models are now “outperforming real actors in many scenarios” says the CEO.
  • The Way We Work Now
    • NASA took decades to develop a new rocket engine that AI designed in just 3 weeks.
    • YouTubers Are Selling Their Unused Video Footage to AI Companies.
    • AI financial advisers upsell better than their human counterparts.
  • How Do You Feel?
    • Shockingly, people dislike Meta AI bots.

PSA

Happy New Year, dear readers.

If you were wondering about my absence, you should know that the period between mid-Dec 2024 and mid-Jan 2025 will be forever remembered in my house as “The Pestilence.”

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