AI models: Amazon Nova 2

 Meet new Amazon Nova AI models that help build highly reliable AI agents

• Nova 2 models deliver industry-leading price-performance across reasoning, multimodal processing, conversational AI, code generation, and agentic tasks.
• Nova Forge enables companies to build their own optimized variants of Nova by infusing their proprietary data early in the training process through Forge’s unique "open training" approach.
• Nova Act achieves breakthrough 90% reliability for browser-based UI automation workflows built by early customers.

AI: Sceptic view by MIT-Nobel Economist Daron Acemoglu

An interesting and detailed paper about economy of current AI "boom".

Makes sense to be skeptical about this, since it was not for lack of (human) intelligence
the economy didn't prosper more in the past... it was for not using, and miss-using, intelligence.

Now, this view assumes no technology breakthroughs,
like solving useful problems that could not be solved before.

And that is exactly what techno-optimists are looking for. 
And it is not hard to observe how many hard problems are not solved yet.
The question is: would solving them be worth all this hype and investment?
Nobody can know.
And that is exactly the reason for all this "FOMO" that surrounds AI investments... 

The Simple Macroeconomics of AI.pdf

Nobel Laureate Busts the AI Hype - YouTube

Prize lecture: Daron Acemoglu, prize in economic sciences 2024 - YouTube

Are We Building AI for Progress or Power? — ft. Daron Acemoglu | Prof G Markets - YouTube

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics: The Full Story - YouTube

Daron Acemoglu - Wikipedia

a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2024