7th Brain Weekly - #1

The response to 7th Brain has been incredible and I've been hard at work this past week putting together some quality content. This topic means a lot to me and I'm excited to see what we can build here. With that said, on to the updates!

This Week's Articles

Friday afternoon, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, published an essay titled Machines of Loving Grace - How AI Could Transform the World for the Better. Here is my response to and commentary on his piece, with a bit of a PKM twist.

How AI Could Transform Knowledge Work for the Better

Friday afternoon, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, published an essay titled Machines of Loving Grace - How AI Could Transform the World for the Better. Here is my response to and commentary on his piece, with a bit of a PKM twist.

Sarah ArmintaSarah Bentley

The next article aims to define Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). We’ll explore how they are coming together to reshape the way we interact with knowledge.

AI and PKM: The Foundation of Modern Knowledge Work

This article aims to define Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). We’ll explore how they are coming together to reshape the way we interact with knowledge.

Sarah ArmintaSarah Bentley

Tip of the Week

One of my favorite recent uses of AI is enlisting ChatGPT's new advanced voice mode to help me brainstorm articles. The voice technology has come such a long way and I find it a delightful way to get my thoughts out of my head. It's like chatting with a friend (who's infinitely patient and knowledgeable!). It really speeds up my workflow and enables me to go from casual unstructured conversation to high quality outline quickly and easily.

Advanced voice mode can be found in the ChatGPT mobile app at the bottom of the conversation screen, on the right side of the text entry area.

News and Interesting Finds

• SpaceX accomplished the seemingly impossible when they managed to successfully catch their Super Heavy booster one the first try after it launched Starship into space. We're living in a time of miracles.
• Ev Chapman has launched her Knowledge Alchemy course, which includes a AI-Powered Note-Taking Playbook.
• The creators of Capacities released a statement detailing their plans for using AI.
• Linus Lee, formerly of Notion AI, wrote an interesting piece on how we can wield AI skillfully, to create a better world.

AI is the new plastic

Plastic is in your car, your kitchen, the chair you’re sitting on right now. And just as our most ubiquitous material transformed the world in a matter of decades, AI is doing the same.

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• Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, published his essay Machines of Loving Grace.
• Tesla held their We, Robot event, complete with CyberCab, Robovan and Optimus among us.

App and Plugin Updates

• Fibery published their Fibery Product Report: September 2024. This is their internal monthly report and includes some AI feature related discussion.
• The Obsidian plugin Voyager received a bunch of updates including:
  • A view has been added to the left sidebar to display a list of the most relevant documents in your vault, for the last few sentences that you have typed in the currently active document.
• The Obsidian plugin Smart Connections has added early support for PDFs, a long awaited feature.
• Tana is looking for an Applied AI Dev.
• The Taskade team held a live session on how to automate your content creation process for social media using AI.

Thanks for reading! If you’ve found this useful, feel free to share with a friend. As always, if you have any suggestions or requests, reach out and let me know what you have in mind!