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🤒 People are becoming less sick. 🐋 Humpback whales more numerous now than before industrial whaling began. 🖥️ Quantum computer demonstrates controlled advantage over supercomputer for the first time.
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🎉 Welcome to the book release!
If you’re in Stockholm, Sweden on November 5, you’re warmly welcome to the book release party. (The event will be in Swedish.)
🤖 Takeaway from Di Tech Strategy Summit
Last week, I gave a talk at the Di Tech Strategy Summit, which gave me the opportunity to listen to several interesting presentations — and I noticed something troubling.
Many of the speakers were CIOs or similar executives at large companies, or consultants working with those executives and management teams.
They painted a picture of a growing frustration among CEOs, leadership teams, and boards. For about ten years, they’ve invested in AI solutions but have yet to see the major results they had hoped for. As a result, some are becoming skeptical or hesitant to continue that journey.
But AI has changed dramatically over those ten years.
What they invested in was likely machine learning, following the breakthrough of neural networks in 2012. Getting their data in order and finding the right projects for machine learning has taken time. Then, in late 2022, the playing field changed completely when ChatGPT was released.
Generative AI is something entirely different from machine learning — a tool for the entire organization, where the key is for all employees to start using it. We are once again in a phase of testing and experimentation, trying to understand how this new technology works and how to adapt organizations and workflows around it.
But for some CEOs and boards, everything is simply “AI.” When in fact, these are two very different technologies — at least in how they can be applied.
The CEO or board that now slows down AI investments because of low returns and the belief that “AI is AI” is making the biggest mistake of their careers.
Mathias Sundin
The Angry Optimist
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What we die from are heart disease and cancer. Which causes of death do you think top the news headlines?
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
🦿 Robot ballet AI enables robots to collaborate in factories
Google DeepMind's AI system RoboBallet automatically plans how industrial robots should perform their tasks, a process that previously required hundreds to thousands of hours of manual programming.
🤗 Record high safety worldwide – more people feel secure than ever
73 percent of the world's adults feel safe walking alone at night in 2024, the highest figure since measurements began in 2006.
🎗️ Nearly everyone survives prostate cancer
Nearly 98 percent of patients with prostate cancer are alive at least five years after diagnosis in 2021.
🧯 The number of deadly fires in the U.S. has decreased by two-thirds
The total number of reported fires has been halved during the same period, and the number of injured has decreased by more than half.
☀️ Renewable energy surpasses coal in the global electricity mix - for the first time ever
Renewable energy overtook coal in the global electricity mix for the first time in history during the first half of 2025.
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Learn more at mathiassundin.org.
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