Time for everyone’s favorite party game, “AI or Whale?” Largest brain in the universe? Whale. Sounds like Scarlett Johansson? AI (depending on which CEO you ask). Involved in a groundbreaking study of language and data analysis? Both!
A team of computer scientists recently took a fresh look at a massive data set of whale recordings—and uncovered a phonetic whale alphabet. So what are whales talking about? The same team is now training AI models to find out (but, like everyone, we assume krill). |
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The idea of using large language models to talk with large language mammals is thrilling on its own. Human-whale communication would be a breakthrough for science (not to mention the new age music industry). But it also points to the many uses for AI we have yet to discover.
First, though, we need more people who understand how AI works. Luckily, we have a brand new course to help you with that.
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The market for energy foods is booming, and hot startup PowerButter™️ is in hyper-growth mode. The CEO wants to double the company’s size every 5 months. That means churning out more managers. Trouble is, it takes 11 months to train a manager and only managers can train managers. What is the average number of trainees a manager is training at any given time?
Bonus challenge: Training isn’t going smoothly. So newly trained managers will now have to wait 3 months before training others. What will the average number of trainees per manager at any given time be after this update? |
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We’ll randomly choose one correct respondent for a shout-out in next month’s email. |
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Congrats to Serge Éthier, who realized a profit of $2,314,067. May bountiful harvests lie in your future, Serge!
Last month, we gave you $100 to start a farm, provided a list of potential crops to plant and sell, and asked how much you could earn in 5 years. The trick was to transform the cost, selling price, and growing time into a rate of return on investment. From there, you needed to strategize to plant as much of the most profitable crops as early as you could manage, no simple matter.
Check out the full solution here. |
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