Microsoft Kills Cortana 💀 // AI-Powered Brain Implants Restore Mobility 🌟 // Graphical Language for Predictive Processing 🤔

Microsoft is shutting down Cortana and shifting its focus to modern-day AI advances, like its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat and other AI-powered productivity features across Windows and its web browser Edge. Researchers have used AI-powered brain implants to restore movement and sensation for a man who was paralyzed from the chest down, offering life-changing mobility and independence to many. A paper presents a categorical formulation of Predictive Processing and Active Inference using string diagrams, providing a graphical language for understanding these cognitive frameworks with potential implications for robotics, cognitive science, and machine learning. A new approach called "self-translate" leverages the few-shot translation capabilities of multilingual language models themselves, outperforming direct inference and demonstrating important implications for the development of multilingual language models and their use in diverse linguistic settings. Contact:  [email protected] Timestamps: 00:34 Introduction 01:26 Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI 02:58 Mind Over Paralysis: AI Helps Quadriplegic Man Move and Feel Again 04:48 Twitter thread on Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) 06:05 Fake sponsor 08:04 Tool Documentation Enables Zero-Shot Tool-Usage with Large Language Models 09:30 Active Inference in String Diagrams: A Categorical Account of Predictive Processing and Free Energy 10:51 Do Multilingual Language Models Think Better in English? 12:49 Outro