What can AI learn from babies?
Plus, a mega Heyday update that embeds all your wisdom into chat.
We’re back with another edition of Machine Learnings, brought to you by the folks at Heyday.
Heyday is an AI thought partner that turns your conversations into notes, reading into quotes, and ideas into posts.
New week, new mega update to Heyday that’s been years in the making.
Today, we’ve taken another major step towards a universal AI thought partner that can take into account all your wisdom.
With Heyday’s new assistant, you can summarize recent conversations, ask for insights about a particular topic you’ve been researching, or simply ask about what your coworker’s opinions are about bagels in SF (hint: if they’re a NYer, you don’t need to ask). Take a look.
Try out these tasks to get a sense of what you can do:
Test Heyday as your thought partner free for the next two weeks. Your work deserves a helping hand.
What we're reading.
1/ Diving into techno-authoritarianism — the prevailing philosophy coming from AI’s home in San Francisco. Worth absorbing so you can make your own determination of what humans should be doing. Learn more at The Atlantic >
2/ Adolescents and Grown adults aren’t enough. We can put the machines on the children, too! Jokes aside, what can AI tools learn from how babies experience the world? Learn more at MIT Technology Review >
3/ A look inside Google Research’s UX practices, updated for AI days. How does the search giant make sure they’re being responsible when we’re dealing with unknown harms? Learn more at Google Research >
4/ Have we just found a new magnetic material? Enough of a tease for you? Learn more at The Economist >
5/ More breakthroughs in walled-off worlds. Have we just found a solution to make insulin affordable? Learn more at WIRED >
6/ Elon’s team at Neuralink has planted the first chip into a human. Now what? Learn more at Scientific American >
7/ After recent deepfake horror for Taylor Swift, AI researchers are being asked many questions they don’t have answers to. Will we find a solution? Learn more at The Economist >
Heyday is your AI-powered thought partner. Modern professionals rely on Heyday to generate meeting notes, extract insights from research, and draft content that draws from past reading and conversations.