🏥AI Robots Now Performing Surgeries After Watching YouTube

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This week, Sam Altman hints that AGI might be just around the corner, AI robots are surprisingly pulling off doctor-level surgeries from YouTube tutorials, and Google DeepMind made AlphaFold open source for all. Plus, don’t miss Khe Hy’s eye-opening blog, “Do You Fall to the Level of Your Systems?”

Let’s dive in!

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🖥️ Tech Bytes

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Sam Altman claims AGI is coming in 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has boldly predicted that artificial general intelligence (AGI) could arrive as early as 2025, In an interview with Y Combinator founder Gary Tan, Altman said that the pathway to AGI now seems "basically clear" and primarily demands engineering advancements rather than scientific breakthroughs. At the same time, reports on OpenAI’s rumored "Orion" model suggest only modest improvements over GPT-4, especially in coding tasks, reflecting the industry's current challenges. In response, OpenAI has launched a new "Foundations Team" to tackle these hurdles, such as the limited availability of high-quality training data. OpenAI researchers Noam Brown and Clive Chan share Altman’s confidence, citing potential in the new o1 reasoning model to overcome scaling barriers. If Altman’s forecast holds true, OpenAI’s recent internal developments could push the company closer to a groundbreaking leap, positioning it at the forefront of AGI progress.

Robot Achieves Doctor-Level Precision After Watching Surgery Videos

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have achieved a major breakthrough in surgical robotics by training the da Vinci Surgical System robot to perform complex tasks—like suturing and tissue manipulation—simply by watching videos of human surgeons. Using an imitation learning approach with hundreds of surgical videos, the AI system combines ChatGPT-style language models with kinematics, teaching the robot precise "surgical language." Impressively, the robot even adapted on its own to retrieve dropped needles. This breakthrough suggests a future where robotic systems can rapidly learn various surgical skills through video training, potentially revolutionizing surgical robotics by allowing robots to adapt to new procedures without the need for detailed, manual coding.

Nobel-Winning AlphaFold 3 Released as Open Source

Google DeepMind has open-sourced its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold 3 protein prediction model, making both the code and training weights available to academic researchers for the first time. This breakthrough technology can predict protein interactions with molecules like DNA, RNA, and drug compounds, opening up powerful tools for non-commercial research. While commercial applications are still restricted to DeepMind’s spinoff, Isomorphic Labs, which has already formed $3 billion in pharmaceutical partnerships, AlphaFold has mapped over 200 million protein structures, establishing a new standard in structural biology. Major players, including Baidu and ByteDance, have also created versions based on AlphaFold’s initial specs, showcasing its broad impact. This open-source release promises to accelerate scientific discovery in biology and medicine, making cutting-edge tools accessible to a broader range of researchers beyond the largest institutions.

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Do you fall to the level of your systems?

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🎁 Tools of the Week

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1. Mylens: Generates visual content from text-based material using AI.

2. Radiooooo: A musical time machine that lets you explore songs from different eras & countries.

3. Archive.org: A non-profit library offering millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

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These were my top insights from this week. Stay tuned for more content on tech, AI, no-code, and entrepreneurship. If you liked this edition, do let me know on X/Twitter. I also share video content on my Instagram page.