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⚡️The UK's new battlefield surgery simulator
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
The UK military just unveiled SAM, an ultra-lifelike trauma simulator that breathes, bleeds, and graphically mimics war wounds to prep surgeons.
Can this new tech help better prepare doctors for the horrors of the battlefield? Let’s dig in…
In today’s tech rundown:
UK military unveils ultra-realistic trauma simulator
New 'cooling ceramic' enhances building energy efficiency
10 new products
7 quick stories
Read time: 3 minutes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
MILITARY TECH
🩺 UK military unveils ultra-realistic trauma simulator
Image source: MoD
The Rundown: The UK Ministry of Defence just introduced a new surgical training mannequin called SAM (Surgical Advanced Mannequin) that accurately mimics gruesome war injuries.
The details:
SAM replicates battlefield wounds and conditions using CT scans and 3D printing.
It can breathe, bleed, and undergo exploratory surgery for medics to practice life-saving techniques.
The gory realism provides valuable preparation for military surgeons before deploying overseas.
The newest SAM model was recently implemented for the first time in full-scale field hospital training exercises.
The relevance: Medical mannequins have come a long way from the classic CPR dummies of the past. These ultra-realistic tools can help surgeons better prepare for gruesome situations that were previously impossible to simulate well.
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Covers the biggest headlines, including the social and cultural impact of sports.
MATERIAL BREAKTHROUGHS
🏡 New 'cooling ceramic' enhances building energy efficiency
Image source: City University of Hong Kong
The Rundown: Researchers at City University of Hong Kong just developed a ceramic material that passively cools buildings without electricity or refrigerants.
The details:
The ultra-white ceramic scatters almost all sunlight, reflecting 99.6% back out and keeping interiors cooler.
It's made from durable alumina ceramic that stands up to weather, resists UV damage, and mimics the bio-white of the Cyphochilus beetle.
The porous nanostructure also enhances cooling from water evaporation on hot days.
Why it matters: This versatile, durable material could substantially cut energy use across the construction sector — reducing huge amounts of power and emissions from traditional AC usage.
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SNIPPETS
Amazon laid off around 180 employees in its games division, shutting down its Twitch-focused Crown Channel and refocusing on Prime Gaming.
The Nepal government has decided to ban TikTok, citing negative effects on social harmony like encouraging hate speech.
Uber is implementing new features to address unfair driver deactivations, like identifying serial complainers seeking refunds and expanding an in-app review process.
The interest cost on U.S. debt surged 87% to $88.9 billion in October as higher bond yields and deficit spending increased concerns over the sustainability of debt levels.
Meta introduces an option to delete Threads accounts independently from Instagram, addressing a common user complaint since the app's launch.
Google files a lawsuit against scammers who were spreading malware disguised as its Bard AI chatbot, tricking users into downloading harmful software.
The U.S. is examining 2,786 MHz of spectrum for next-gen wireless services, aiming to improve allocation and reduce interference.
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🤖 OpenAI's attempt to steal Google talent
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI is waving big money at Google AI specialists, aiming to poach more top talent before its valuation skyrockets.
As competition intensifies, winning the AI race increasingly means winning the best minds. Let’s dive in…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI recruits Google AI experts with HUGE offers
Hollywood actors strike ends with deal on AI use
10 new AI tools to try
How to find the best new custom GPTs
New report: AI boosts low-performing employees the most
GPT-4 Turbo model is officially live
RunwayML shows off new motion brush feature
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
💰 OpenAI recruits Google AI experts with HUGE offers
Image source: Midjourney
The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly enticing top AI researchers from Google to join them with highly lucrative compensation packages as high as a whopping $10 million per year.
The details:
OpenAI's recruiters are focused on luring senior AI talent at Google working on models like Gemini.
The supersized offers come as OpenAI nears completion of a major employee stock sale that could triple its valuation.
New AI chip projects, including Microsoft’s ‘Athena’ and AMD’s MI300X, could provide hardware advantages to OpenAI versus Google's TPUs.
The relevance: While we often highlight the escalating AI race for the top LLMs, there is also a war being fought for the top AI worker talent. No matter the company — its certainly a good time to be a top AI researcher.
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HOLLYWOOD & AI
🎬 Hollywood actors strike ends with deal on AI use
Image source: Midjourney
The Rundown: The SAG-AFTRA actors strike has finally ended after reaching a tentative deal, following months of negotiations over AI use and streaming residuals.
The details:
The 118-day strike was the longest in Hollywood history, halting many productions.
A major sticking point was reuse of AI scans to digitally recreate actors without consent or compensation.
The studios' previous proposal allowed unlimited scans of veteran actors post-mortem, which the union opposed.
The final deal concedes some restrictions and payments around AI model use — and comes on the heels of Hollywood writers securing landmark restrictions on studios' use of AI scripts in September.
Why it matters: The strike ends for now, letting Hollywood productions resume. But with AI’s growth not likely to slow any time soon, the issue of its use in the industry is likely far from settled.
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AI TRAINING
🔎 How to find the best new GPTs
There have been an endless supply of new GPTs created since launching last week. Wondering how to find the best ones?
The Rundown now has a GPT directory, organizing the top community submissions and curating favorites.
Follow the steps below to start exploring:
Step 1: Navigate to the GPTs section of Supertools.
Step 2: Filter based on the type of GPT you are looking for. We’ve broken it up into different categories like Image Generation, Productivity, Developer, Health, etc. to easily find the perfect tools.
Step 3: Submit your own GPT by clicking on the ‘Submit Tool’ tab and providing the relevant details (description, category, link, etc.)
Now you can quickly find the perfect customized GPT for your needs, and share your tool with the community! Let us know your favorites — and check out this thread for some of the coolest ones we’ve seen so far.
QUICK HITS
📶 Study: GenAI boosts low-performing workers most
A new report shows AI tools like ChatGPT are transforming knowledge work, with low-performing employees seeing the biggest benefit. The key for workers — becoming "cyborgs" and "centaurs," meshing AI into workflows vs handing off tasks.
⚙️ Altman: GPT-4 Turbo now live
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted that the upgraded GPT-4 Turbo model is now live, and should be ‘a lot better’ than the previous models. The upgrade comes after a turbulent week of outages and degraded performance after reported DDoS attacks from hacker groups.
🎥 Runway debuts motion brush
AI video platform Runway introduced an impressive update called ‘motion brush’, a new tool coming to its Gen-2 product that allows for more intuitive movement control within outputs.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
Research Engineer - Large Language Models at Synthesia
Program Manager, Recruiting Operations at OpenAI
Tech Lead Manager (Security) at Anyscale
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🤖 OpenAI's attempt to steal Google talent
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
OpenAI is waving big money at Google AI specialists, aiming to poach more top talent before its valuation skyrockets.
As competition intensifies, winning the AI race increasingly means winning the best minds. Let’s dive in…
In today’s AI rundown:
OpenAI recruits Google AI experts with HUGE offers
Hollywood actors strike ends with deal on AI use
10 new AI tools to try
How to find the best new custom GPTs
New report: AI boosts low-performing employees the most
GPT-4 Turbo model is officially live
RunwayML shows off new motion brush feature
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
OPENAI
💰 OpenAI recruits Google AI experts with HUGE offers
Image source: Midjourney
The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly enticing top AI researchers from Google to join them with highly lucrative compensation packages as high as a whopping $10 million per year.
The details:
OpenAI's recruiters are focused on luring senior AI talent at Google working on models like Gemini.
The supersized offers come as OpenAI nears completion of a major employee stock sale that could triple its valuation.
New AI chip projects, including Microsoft’s ‘Athena’ and AMD’s MI300X, could provide hardware advantages to OpenAI versus Google's TPUs.
The relevance: While we often highlight the escalating AI race for the top LLMs, there is also a war being fought for the top AI worker talent. No matter the company — its certainly a good time to be a top AI researcher.
TOGETHER WITH GRAFT
🔥 Turn your data into a goldmine of insights
The Rundown: Graft Predict is your key to unlocking AI's predictive power tailored for your business needs.
Discover Graft Predict's Transformative Capabilities:
Rapid AI Deployment: Swiftly build and deploy AI models with our user-friendly platform, accessible to all ML expertise levels.
Versatile AI Solutions: Precision in support ticket categorization, insightful sentiment analysis for marketing, and robust facial recognition for security.
Empower Your Business Functions: AI enhances customer support efficiency, refines marketing strategies with sentiment analysis, ensures secure access control through facial recognition, and accelerates product development innovation by predicting user behavior and needs.
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HOLLYWOOD & AI
🎬 Hollywood actors strike ends with deal on AI use
Image source: Midjourney
The Rundown: The SAG-AFTRA actors strike has finally ended after reaching a tentative deal, following months of negotiations over AI use and streaming residuals.
The details:
The 118-day strike was the longest in Hollywood history, halting many productions.
A major sticking point was reuse of AI scans to digitally recreate actors without consent or compensation.
The studios' previous proposal allowed unlimited scans of veteran actors post-mortem, which the union opposed.
The final deal concedes some restrictions and payments around AI model use — and comes on the heels of Hollywood writers securing landmark restrictions on studios' use of AI scripts in September.
Why it matters: The strike ends for now, letting Hollywood productions resume. But with AI’s growth not likely to slow any time soon, the issue of its use in the industry is likely far from settled.
TRENDING TOOLS
🤖 Julius AI- Supercharge your data analysis. Turn hours of Excel into minutes with Julius (link)*
📁 GPT Directory- Find the latest and greatest GPTs in one location (link)
👾 Heetch- Turn any Midjourney prompt into a nightmare (link)
🧑 VocAI Chatbot- Resolve 80% of your customer support questions with no code (link)
🍎 OllamaC- A macOS app for interacting with the Ollama models (link)
👁️ Multimodal RAG- Leverage AI tech for insightful insurance adjustments (link)
💬 AlTable.ai- Turn tables into AI chatbots for your website & social media (link)
👩🎨 Looka- AI-powered platform to design a logo and build a brand in seconds (link)
📚 Morise AI- Reads your videos and generates everything in seconds (link)
📊 Sheet AI- Put AI in your Google Sheets (link)
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AI TRAINING
🔎 How to find the best new GPTs
There have been an endless supply of new GPTs created since launching last week. Wondering how to find the best ones?
The Rundown now has a GPT directory, organizing the top community submissions and curating favorites.
Follow the steps below to start exploring:
Step 1: Navigate to the GPTs section of Supertools.
Step 2: Filter based on the type of GPT you are looking for. We’ve broken it up into different categories like Image Generation, Productivity, Developer, Health, etc. to easily find the perfect tools.
Step 3: Submit your own GPT by clicking on the ‘Submit Tool’ tab and providing the relevant details (description, category, link, etc.)
Now you can quickly find the perfect customized GPT for your needs, and share your tool with the community! Let us know your favorites — and check out this thread for some of the coolest ones we’ve seen so far.
QUICK HITS
📶 Study: GenAI boosts low-performing workers most
A new report shows AI tools like ChatGPT are transforming knowledge work, with low-performing employees seeing the biggest benefit. The key for workers — becoming "cyborgs" and "centaurs," meshing AI into workflows vs handing off tasks.
⚙️ Altman: GPT-4 Turbo now live
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted that the upgraded GPT-4 Turbo model is now live, and should be ‘a lot better’ than the previous models. The upgrade comes after a turbulent week of outages and degraded performance after reported DDoS attacks from hacker groups.
🎥 Runway debuts motion brush
AI video platform Runway introduced an impressive update called ‘motion brush’, a new tool coming to its Gen-2 product that allows for more intuitive movement control within outputs.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
Research Engineer - Large Language Models at Synthesia
Program Manager, Recruiting Operations at OpenAI
Tech Lead Manager (Security) at Anyscale
Browse all available AI job positions with our job board.
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⚡️ A flying car just took it's first flight!
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
The Samson Switchblade, a street-legal vehicle that transforms into a small plane, just achieved a pivotal first successful test flight.
Are flying cars finally moving from fiction to reality? Let’s get into it…
In today’s tech rundown:
Samson Switchblade flying car takes first flight
Ceiling sensors track food waste in kitchens
10 new products
7 quick stories
Read time: 3 minutes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
TRANSPORTATION
🛫 Samson Switchblade flying car takes first flight
Image source: Samson
The Rundown: The Samson Switchblade, a street-legal vehicle that transforms into a small airplane, successfully completed its first test flight after 14 years of development.
The details:
The Switchblade flies at 200 mph with a 500 mile range (35 gallon fuel tank), and converts from a motorcycle to a plane in just 3 minutes.
Over 2,300 reservations have been made for the $170,000 vehicle since its announcement over a decade ago.
The model qualifies as both a motorcycle and experimental aircraft to simplify regulations.
The first flight reached 500 ft altitude and lasted 6 minutes before landing safely in Moses Lake, WA.
The relevance: Once thought of as just science fiction, the Switchblade concept shows the potential (and demand) for a practical flying car. Though production, infrastructure, and regulations are still likely years away.
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SUSTAINABILITY
🍽️ Ceiling sensors track food waste in kitchens
Image source: Positive Carbon
The Rundown: A startup called Positive Carbon is installing camera and lidar sensors in commercial kitchens to track exactly what food enters the trash bins, helping reduce waste by 50%.
The details:
The sensors are mounted on the ceiling above the food waste bins to autonomously monitor what is discarded.
Advanced data analytics are then run to uncover trends and patterns in what is being over-ordered, over-prepped, or over-served.
After a $2.3M funding round, Positive Carbon plans to expand to capabilities like tracking nutritional content in real-time.
Our thoughts: Automated waste tracking is a clever way to cut costs and litter in kitchens — and the potential is limitless for AI to further optimize the food chain while reducing environmental impact.
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👩🎨 Looka- AI-powered platform to design a logo and build a brand in seconds (link)
🎤 Castmagic- Turn long-form audio into ready-to-use content assets, instantly (link)
🛠️ 60sec.site- Generates beautiful landing pages for you in under 60 seconds (link)
🗣 Speechify- transcribe everything into audio for you to listen to (link)
🎙Toasty AI- AI content creation for podcasts (link)
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SNIPPETS
Apple plans to introduce a new 12.9-inch iPad Air and update its entire iPad lineup in early 2024, with a focus on different display technologies and chips.
The Swedish startup Minesto is set to install the world's largest tidal energy 'kite', capable of powering 1,000 homes, as part of its innovative underwater renewable energy generation.
SpaceX is facing scrutiny for high injury rates among workers, attributed by employees to CEO Elon Musk's prioritization of Mars over safety protocols.
Threads users now have the option to prevent their posts from appearing on Instagram and Facebook.
The SAG-AFTRA actors union reached a tentative deal with studios after a months-long strike, securing protections around consent and payment for use of members' likenesses created via AI.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority received complaints about Google's upcoming Chrome IP address cloaking, alleging it violates commitments and harms competitors' fraud prevention.
Newport Wafer Fab, the UK's largest chip plant, was sold by its Chinese-owned operator Nexperia to US firm Vishay for $177M, after the UK ordered a divestment citing national security concerns over the China ties.
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❤️ Rundown review of the day
🤖 Humane's AI Pin wants to replace smartphones
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Humane revealed its new $699 smartphone-disrupting AI Pin, delivering AI assistants and apps without the need for a screen.
But can this emerging AI hardware actually put a dent in our screen addictions? Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
Humane releases details on smartphone-disrupting AI Pin
Study: AI can detect diabetes through voice recordings
10 new AI tools to try
How to make your own custom GPTs with ChatGPT’s update
Custom GPTs now live for ChatGPT+ subscribers
Hackers damper new OpenAI rollouts with DDoS attacks
Snapchat powering new AR lenses with ChatGPT
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
HUMANE
📍Humane’s smartphone-disrupting AI Pin is here
Image source: Humane
The Rundown: Humane has officially released more details on its hotly-anticipated $699 AI Pin, a wearable device for accessing AI hands-free through voice, gestures, and a built-in projector — with preorders set to begin on Nov. 16.
The details:
The lightweight gadget magnetically attaches to clothing and has no screen, instead controlled via touchpad, camera, laser, and built-in speakers.
Humane's AI mic software provides access to LLMs like ChatGPT and Microsoft models and aims to simplify AI use without downloading apps, settings, or always-on listening.
Demoed features include messaging, summaries, music, visual Q&A, photos, real-time translation, and nutrition analysis via food images.
Humane sees the device as a hands-free replacement to phones, and the subscription comes with its own number and service via T-Mobile.
Our thoughts: We first wrote a piece on Humane’s device in July, but these new details shed some serious light on one of the first pieces of consumer AI wearable hardware available on the market (startup since 2018).
Is it weird that of all the features mentioned, we’re most excited about the health and nutrition feature? (Demo’d at 5:55 in full launch video here)
TOGETHER WITH CONVEYOR
🔥 Automate security questionnaire answering with AI
The Rundown: There’s nothing more tedious than answering security questionnaires all day. We’d rather fight Bowser in Super Mario Bros.
So, Conveyor got AI to do it (the questionnaires, not fight Bowser 🙃).
And, they created a fun 8-bit video game to show you how it works.
Check out the interactive adventure about how you can use Conveyor’s GPT-security questionnaire automation software to destroy pesky ‘questionnaire villains’.
(It's really fun, we promise)
MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
🎤 AI detects diabetes through subtle voice changes
Image source: DALL-E 3
The Rundown: Researchers have developed an AI system that can detect type 2 diabetes with up to 89% accuracy just by analyzing characteristics of a smartphone recording of a person's voice.
Key points:
The AI studied pitch, strength, vibration, and shimmer (breathiness/hoarseness) in 18,000 voice recordings from 267 people.
It flagged subtle differences imperceptible to humans but correlated with diabetes, with 89% accuracy in females and 86% in males.
The cause of why diabetes changes a voice is unclear — but may relate to vocal cord neuropathy and muscle weakness.
Broader trials are needed to validate accuracy — but If proven, voice screening via smartphones could enable low-cost diabetes detection.
Why it matters: With half of adults with diabetes going undiagnosed and 86% in low and middle-income countries, a test that requires just a voice recording would be a game changer for getting diagnosis and treatment to the masses.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
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AI TRAINING
⚙️ How to make your own custom GPTs
Custom GPTs are now available for ChatGPT+ subscribers — making it easier than ever for you to create your very own chatbot. Follow the steps below to access the new tool:
Craft your builder profile: Navigate to settings → Builder profile and update your information to enable the creation of publicly shared GPTs.
Open GPTs: Click on your name to open the menu, and select ‘My GPTs’.
Describe your creation: Talk with ChatGPT conversationally to describe what you’d like to build.
Knowledge, capabilities, and actions: ChatGPT will suggest conversation starters and more in the ‘configure’ area — which is where you can also make updates like uploading relevant files, selecting which models the GPT should use (Browsing, Code Interpreter, DALL-E), and adding API integrations.
Save and publish: Once satisfied with your creation, you can save, share, and make the GPT public with the drop-down menu.
Happy creating! While future tutorials will dive deeper into specific use cases, here are some awesome ones that have already been built since Monday’s DevDay.
QUICK HITS
🤝 Custom GPTs now live for ChatGPT+ subscribers
Sam Altman just announced that the new custom GPTs feature is now available to all ChatGPT+ subscribers after the company showed off the new builder at Dev Day earlier this week. We went deeper into the new features in Tuesday’s newsletter.
🤳 Snapchat lenses get a ChatGPT boost
Snapchat is tapping ChatGPT to power a new wave of AR lenses, the company announced at its annual developer event. The lenses will now be able to respond to questions and queries on the fly, create filters, and generate 3D masks with the AI chatbot integration.
🤖 Hackers damper new ChatGPT rollout with attacks
Outages plagued OpenAI systems this week after hackers slammed its servers in a massive DDoS attack. OpenAI blamed "abnormal traffic patterns," but hacking group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the issues — which forced delays in new offerings like customizable GPTs.
💼 New jobs in the world of AI
Technical Artist / 3D Motion Designer at Sanctuary AI
Head of Product Communications at Anthropic
AI Data Trainer - Data Science/Python at Cohere
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❤️ Rundown review of the day
🤖 Humane's AI Pin wants to replace smartphones
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Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
Humane revealed its new $699 smartphone-disrupting AI Pin, delivering AI assistants and apps without the need for a screen.
But can this emerging AI hardware actually put a dent in our screen addictions? Let’s get into it.
In today’s AI rundown:
Humane releases details on smartphone-disrupting AI Pin
Study: AI can detect diabetes through voice recordings
10 new AI tools to try
How to make your own custom GPTs with ChatGPT’s update
Custom GPTs now live for ChatGPT+ subscribers
Hackers damper new OpenAI rollouts with DDoS attacks
Snapchat powering new AR lenses with ChatGPT
Read time: 4 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
HUMANE
📍Humane’s smartphone-disrupting AI Pin is here
Image source: Humane
The Rundown: Humane has officially released more details on its hotly-anticipated $699 AI Pin, a wearable device for accessing AI hands-free through voice, gestures, and a built-in projector — with preorders set to begin on Nov. 16.
The details:
The lightweight gadget magnetically attaches to clothing and has no screen, instead controlled via touchpad, camera, laser, and built-in speakers.
Humane's AI mic software provides access to LLMs like ChatGPT and Microsoft models and aims to simplify AI use without downloading apps, settings, or always-on listening.
Demoed features include messaging, summaries, music, visual Q&A, photos, real-time translation, and nutrition analysis via food images.
Humane sees the device as a hands-free replacement to phones, and the subscription comes with its own number and service via T-Mobile.
Our thoughts: We first wrote a piece on Humane’s device in July, but these new details shed some serious light on one of the first pieces of consumer AI wearable hardware available on the market (startup since 2018).
Is it weird that of all the features mentioned, we’re most excited about the health and nutrition feature? (Demo’d at 5:55 in full launch video here)
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Check out the interactive adventure about how you can use Conveyor’s GPT-security questionnaire automation software to destroy pesky ‘questionnaire villains’.
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MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
🎤 AI detects diabetes through subtle voice changes
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The Rundown: Researchers have developed an AI system that can detect type 2 diabetes with up to 89% accuracy just by analyzing characteristics of a smartphone recording of a person's voice.
Key points:
The AI studied pitch, strength, vibration, and shimmer (breathiness/hoarseness) in 18,000 voice recordings from 267 people.
It flagged subtle differences imperceptible to humans but correlated with diabetes, with 89% accuracy in females and 86% in males.
The cause of why diabetes changes a voice is unclear — but may relate to vocal cord neuropathy and muscle weakness.
Broader trials are needed to validate accuracy — but If proven, voice screening via smartphones could enable low-cost diabetes detection.
Why it matters: With half of adults with diabetes going undiagnosed and 86% in low and middle-income countries, a test that requires just a voice recording would be a game changer for getting diagnosis and treatment to the masses.
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AI TRAINING
⚙️ How to make your own custom GPTs
Custom GPTs are now available for ChatGPT+ subscribers — making it easier than ever for you to create your very own chatbot. Follow the steps below to access the new tool:
Craft your builder profile: Navigate to settings → Builder profile and update your information to enable the creation of publicly shared GPTs.
Open GPTs: Click on your name to open the menu, and select ‘My GPTs’.
Describe your creation: Talk with ChatGPT conversationally to describe what you’d like to build.
Knowledge, capabilities, and actions: ChatGPT will suggest conversation starters and more in the ‘configure’ area — which is where you can also make updates like uploading relevant files, selecting which models the GPT should use (Browsing, Code Interpreter, DALL-E), and adding API integrations.
Save and publish: Once satisfied with your creation, you can save, share, and make the GPT public with the drop-down menu.
Happy creating! While future tutorials will dive deeper into specific use cases, here are some awesome ones that have already been built since Monday’s DevDay.
QUICK HITS
🤝 Custom GPTs now live for ChatGPT+ subscribers
Sam Altman just announced that the new custom GPTs feature is now available to all ChatGPT+ subscribers after the company showed off the new builder at Dev Day earlier this week. We went deeper into the new features in Tuesday’s newsletter.
🤳 Snapchat lenses get a ChatGPT boost
Snapchat is tapping ChatGPT to power a new wave of AR lenses, the company announced at its annual developer event. The lenses will now be able to respond to questions and queries on the fly, create filters, and generate 3D masks with the AI chatbot integration.
🤖 Hackers damper new ChatGPT rollout with attacks
Outages plagued OpenAI systems this week after hackers slammed its servers in a massive DDoS attack. OpenAI blamed "abnormal traffic patterns," but hacking group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the issues — which forced delays in new offerings like customizable GPTs.
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⚡️ Phone gauges intoxication through VOICE
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Welcome, Tech enthusiasts.
A new Stanford study found smartphones can potentially detect intoxication with 98% accuracy by monitoring changes in speech patterns.
Will smart devices soon have their own voice-detecting breathalyzers? Let’s dive in…
In today’s tech rundown:
Study: Your voice could reveal how drunk you are
New composite stimulates bone regrowth, prevents bacteria
10 New products
7 quick stories
Read time: 3 minutes
TODAY’S HEADLINES
SAFETY TECH
📱 Your voice could reveal how drunk you are
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The Rundown: A new study from Stanford University shows that smartphones can potentially monitor blood alcohol levels with 98% accuracy by passively analyzing changes in a person's voice.
The details:
18 participants read tongue twisters while drinking, allowing researchers to correlate voice patterns with intoxication.
Voice recordings were taken repeatedly and matched to breathalyzer tests, with machine learning isolating vocal features like frequency and pitch to correlate with intoxication.
The tech could provide non-invasive, real-time alerts against driving or other risky behaviors while intoxicated.
The relevance: As we also highlighted in a separate story in today’s Rundown AI (detecting diabetes from voice recordings) — there is serious untapped potential in analyzing audio. This type of innovation could be standard on future smart devices.
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MEDICAL TECH
🦴 New composite stimulates bone regrowth
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The Rundown: Researchers just developed an implantable scaffold made of bioactive glass and polymer that aids broken bone healing by inhibiting bacteria and promoting tissue regrowth.
The details:
The customized scaffolds are designed to fit severe break sites based on CT scans and replace missing bone.
The bioactive glass component raises pH to hamper bacteria and transforms into a bone-like compound called hydroxyapatite.
The polymer provides structural strength, with the scaffold degrading as the bone heals over 6-7 years.
The relevance: This clever composite elegantly combines infection prevention and accelerated healing. If proven, it can greatly benefit many patients — and reduce costly follow-up procedures.
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SNIPPETS
Nature fully retracted a blockbuster paper from physicist Ranga Dias claiming discovery of room-temperature superconductivity, invaliding the purported finding that could have revolutionized energy and computing.
A robot at a Korean food facility fatally crushed a technician after mistakenly identifying him as a box of produce and attempting to lift him.
The Department of Justice reached a $25 million settlement with Apple after alleging the company violated anti-discrimination laws through restrictive hiring for a visa program.
Humane launched its anticipated screenless wearable AI Pin powered by OpenAI, letting users interact via voice, touchpad, and by projection.
Cruise has begun layoffs of contingent workers who supported its driverless operations, which paused after key permits were suspended over a crash.
Disney announced a combined Disney+ and Hulu app will launch in the US in March after a December beta, consolidating the streaming libraries and cutting content costs.
Amazon is reportedly planning to replace the Android core of its Fire OS software with a new homemade Linux-based OS called Vega across Fire TV, Echo, and future devices.
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🤖 Amazon's ChatGPT rival
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Amazon is reportedly spending millions on 'Olympus,' a massive 2 trillion parameter model aimed at rivaling OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Is Amazon’s AI titan set up to become a top contender in the AI frenzy? Let’s get into it…
In today’s AI rundown:
Amazon training massive ‘Olympus’ ChatGPT competitor
Samsung infusing products with new ‘Gauss’ LLM
10 new AI tools to try
How to master ChatGPT prompting with a 6-step formula
Google’s AI search features expand to 120 new countries
DeepMind researchers create tier list for AGI progress tracking
NVIDIA’s lightning-fast Eos sets AI training record
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
AMAZON
📦 Amazon dedicates team to 'Olympus' AI model
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The Rundown: Amazon is reportedly investing millions in training a massive language model codenamed 'Olympus' to rival AI leaders like OpenAI, as well as eventually incorporating it into its Alexa speakers and online platform.
The details:
Olympus is reported to have 2 trillion parameters, which could make it one of the world's largest AI models (GPT-4 had 1 trillion).
The project is led by former head of Alexa Rohit Prasad, now Amazon's head scientist for AGI.
Amazon believes homegrown, state-of-the-art models could provide an edge for its AWS offerings against competitors.
Its previous LLM ‘Titan’ was delayed following ChatGPT’s impressive launch, which Amazon execs felt was ‘far superior’ to their model.
Our thoughts: Though currently lagging behind, Amazon has the resources and the reach to catch up quickly. Integrating a massive LLM into a product like Alexa could be another mass adoption moment for AI consumer tech.
They also have some interesting data for their LLM to train on that others don’t: What you buy.
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SAMSUNG
📱 Samsung releases new ‘Gauss’ LLM
The Rundown: Tech giant Samsung just threw its hat into the LLM ring at the company’s AI Forum, teasing a new generative model called ‘Gauss’, which boasts language, coding, and image generation capabilities.
The details:
Samsung says the on-device AI will be implemented in future products, with speculation around the upcoming Galaxy S24 phone.
Samsung has an AI Red Team focused on responsible development, along with on-device processing for privacy.
Language can generate emails, summaries, and translations, Code is specialized for coding tasks and workflows, and Image can create new visual content and modify existing images.
The relevance: While Samsung’s entry into the LLM space was inevitable, it’s unclear what benefits this model offers over current leaders. But like Amazon, the potential for consumer integration within Samsung’s products is massive.
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AI TRAINING
📶 Master ChatGPT prompts with a 6-step formula
Want to take your ChatGPT usage to the next level and get the best possible outputs? Follow this structured framework to master the art of the prompt:
Task: Clearly define the objective, and be concise yet detailed. Simple vs complex examples: Simple: "Generate a 3-month diet program." Complex: "Analyze collected user feedback, summarize top 3 takeaways for improvement, and categorize rest by importance."
Context: Provide relevant background info to frame the request. More context helps ChatGPT understand you and your needs.
Examples: Including examples to guide structure and style can dramatically improve output quality. Examples allow ChatGPT to mimic the style, structure, and tone of almost anything.
Persona: Adopt a specific viewpoint and get responses from a particular perspective. Ex: therapist, business CEO, math tutor, etc.
Format: Specify desired output format like table, bullets, email, code blocks — ChatGPT is great at providing content in unique ways.
Tone: Set the mood of the output — casual, formal, enthusiastic, etc. to ensure your content resonates emotionally.
While not every step is always needed, focusing on key elements in order to produce the best results. Happy prompting!
QUICK HITS
🔎 Google Search AI goes global
Google just expanded its AI-powered Search Generative Experience to 120+ new countries, broadening the reach of the tech’s infusion into the company’s core product. Slowly but surely, AI is revolutionizing how the world finds info.
🧠 DeepMind researchers define AGI stages
Researchers from Google DeepMind have proposed a framework of "Levels of AGI" based on performance and generality, aiming to standardize and track progress toward human-like AI. The tier list comes on the heels of DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg predicting a 50% chance of AGI by 2028 last month.
🏆 NVIDIA smashes own AI training record with Eos
NVIDIA's upgraded Eos supercomputer now trains a 175 billion parameter AI model in just under 4 minutes, breaking the company’s own speed record set six months ago by 3x. The system leverages 10,000+ GPUs to pull off training models in a fraction of the time, touting lightning-speed results.
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