Happy Monday!

Just last week, we got one step closer to aliens.

Now, Google is bringing us one step closer to ‘speaking robots.’ Let’s go!

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 Google’s RT-2 AI model brings us closer to WALL-E

• 📚 Stack Overflow is embracing the power of AI

• 💻 Intel CEO says it won’t stop using AI, ever

• ⚒️ 8 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

🤖 Google’s RT-2 AI model brings us closer to WALL-E

Image source: Google

The Rundown: Google DeepMind is bringing us a step closer to a robot-filled future with their newly launched vision-language-action model, RT-2, that uses internet data for better robotic control.

Key details:

• It allows robots not only to understand human instructions but also to translate them into actions.

• RT-2 is trained on text and images from the web, allowing it to transfer knowledge to robot behavior, making it capable of "speaking robot."

• RT-2 can recognize trash and dispose of it, or pick out objects like a dinosaur figurine when commanded.

Why it matters: While there's still a long way to go before we have robots doing our dishes, RT-2 is bringing that future a little bit closer.

TOGETHER WITH UNBOUNCE

🎧 Listen (and learn) as marketers talk AI tech

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The hosts chat with leading AI experts as they try to make sense of the wild, wondrous, and downright weird world of AI marketing—no prompting required.

Here are some episodes you can listen to right now:

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STACK OVERFLOW

⚡️ Stack Overflow is embracing the power of AI

The Rundown: Stack Overflow, the world’s largest question-and-answer website for programmers, just announced “the future of Stack Overflow“- OverflowAI.

Key Features:

1. Semantic Search: Designed to align better with users' research topics, offering instant, reliable answers.

2. Enterprise Knowledge Ingestion: Set up new instances or onboard teammates effortlessly with OverflowAI.

3. Slack Integration: Integrates with Slack via the StackPlusOne chatbot to deliver validated solutions in a conversational format.

4. Visual Studio Code Extension: Introduces an IDE extension for Visual Studio Code.

5. AI Community Discussions: GenAI Stack Exchange becomes a knowledge-sharing platform, and Stack Overflow's NLP Collective hosts 'Discussions' for technical debates and idea sharing.

Why it matters: Following the release of ChatGPT, Stack Overflow has seen a 50% drop in traffic. This strategic shift toward embracing AI is probably necessary, in order to save the company.

INTEL

💻 Intel CEO says it won’t stop using AI, ever

The Rundown: During the Q2 2023 earnings call, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said the company will build AI into every product it builds.

Details:

• Intel's upcoming consumer chip, Meteor Lake, will have a built-in neural processor for machine learning tasks.

• Gelsinger emphasizes that AI won't always rely on the cloud and expects AI to be in all Intel products.

• Intel aims to enable AI at the client and edge levels.

Why it matters: 76.7% of laptops in the world use Intel processors. AI being built directly into those processors is game-changing.

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📅 Insumo- analyzes your daily planning on positive and negative patterns (link)

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QUICK HITS

👷 Workers at risk of being replaced by AI aren’t worried

A new Pew Research Center report found that over 27 million Americans are working in jobs where AI could replace or assist their key activities. Some workers in industries more exposed to AI seem less concerned about its impact on them personally, according to the study.

🛡️ MIT builds a shield to protect images from AI

MIT researchers have developed PhotoGuard, a technique to prevent unauthorized manipulation of images by generative AI systems like deep fakes, using invisible protective masks that disrupt the output of AI models.

🚔 FBI: AI makes it easier for hackers to attack

The FBI warns that cyberattacks using AI technology are increasing rapidly, with hackers using AI models for phishing attacks and developing malware that can evade security systems. Open-source AI models are a particular concern for law enforcement.

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Happy Friday!

Amidst all the craziness happening in the world of AI right now, a dark web version of ChatGPT has emerged.

And it’s already sold over 3,000 subscriptions in 6 days…

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🌐 Dark web version of ChatGPT emerges

• 🛒 Amazon doubles down on AI

• 🛋️ AI designs interior and lets you buy furniture instantly

• 🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

DARK WEB

🌐 Dark web version of ChatGPT emerges

Image source: The Hacker News

The Rundown: A new cybercrime generative AI tool called FraudGPT is being advertised on the Dark web and Telegram channels, offering offensive capabilities like crafting spear-phishing emails and creating undetectable malware.

Details:

• FraudGPT is positioned as an "all-in-one" solution for cybercriminals – its features include writing malicious code, creating phishing pages, and finding leaks and vulnerabilities.

• It has already gained over 3,000 confirmed sales and reviews.

• Security experts emphasize the need for continuous innovation in cybersecurity defenses to combat these emerging threats.

Why it matters: Scammers can now look more realistic than ever before and at a larger scale. The sad truth is that the emergence of cybercrime AI tools like FraudGPT is just beginning.

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AMAZON

🛒 Amazon doubles down on AI

Image source: AWS Summit New York

The Rundown: Amazon Web Service announced major updates and new services to strengthen its position as the cloud provider of choice for organizations using generative AI.

Key points:

• The announcements include expanding the AI foundation model service called Bedrock to support more models like Cohere and Anthropic Claude 2.

• AWS introduced a Bedrock agent capability to simplify generative AI application development without writing code.

• The cloud giant extended vector engine support to its OpenSearch serverless search service.

• Generative AI was integrated into the Amazon Quicksight business intelligence service, enabling business analysts to use natural language queries.

• AWS aims to bring more developments throughout the year.

Why it matters: Finally, all of Amazon's recent AI-related job openings are starting to make sense. Amazon is doubling down on AI!

WAYFAIR

🛋️ AI designs interior and lets you buy furniture instantly

Image source: Wayfair

The Rundown: Wayfair's new tool, Decorify, uses generative AI to restyle rooms based on uploaded pictures and styles, offering instant furniture recommendations ready for purchase.

Details:

• Decorify uses generative AI to redecorate rooms based on uploaded pictures and selected styles.

• Users receive instant furniture recommendations for the remodeled room.

• The recommended furniture can be purchased directly from Wayfair.

• Wayfair plans to fine-tune the AI model to provide even more specific matches with their products in the future.

Our take: We wouldn’t have expected a furniture company to be on the cusp of the AI revolution, but here we are. Even more surprising is that this ranks amongst the top tier of useful AI tool integrations among large companies.

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QUICK HITS

📱 Meta seeks AI partnership in India

Meta signed a collaboration agreement with 'India AI' to work together on AI research and development in India. The partnership aims to make Meta's open-source AI models accessible for solving challenges, promoting responsible AI practices, and supporting India's digital growth.

🎙️ ElevenLabs releases new voices

ElevenLabs has expanded its range of voices in Speech Synthesis and Projects Alpha. The new voices, created in collaboration with industry professionals, offer a wider range of delivery styles, accents, and improved audio quality, providing more options for creative projects.

🇪🇺 Hugging Face and GitHub unite to defend open-source

A coalition of open-source AI stakeholders, including Hugging Face and GitHub, is urging EU policymakers to protect open-source innovation in the EU AI Act. They are concerned that certain obligations favoring closed and proprietary AI development could harm the open AI ecosystem.

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Happy Thursday!

Aliens, Robots with night vision, and AI regulation.

What a day. Let’s dig in…

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 Stability AI releases SDXL 1.0, rivaling Midjourney

• 🔒 Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch AI safety body

• 👁️ HADAR revolutionizes AI visualization systems

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

STABILITY AI

🤖 Stability AI releases SDXL 1.0, rivaling Midjourney

Image source: Stability AI

The Rundown: Stability AI has released SDXL 1.0, an open model that is the next major leap in the evolution of text-to-image generation models.

Key points:

• The model can generate high-quality images in any art style, including photorealism.

• Improved ability to interpret simpler language and accurately distinguish between similar terms with different meanings.

• The model is the largest open image model, with a total parameter count of 10.1 billion.

• Try SDXL 1.0 on Clipdrop here.

Our take: The quality of SDXL 1.0 is shockingly good, rivaling that of Midjourney. It will be very interesting to watch what folks build in the coming weeks using the open model.

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NATURE

��️ HADAR revolutionizes AI visualization systems

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The Rundown: A new study published in Nature introduced HADAR (Heat-Assisted Detection and Ranging), a camera imaging system based on AI interpretations of heat signatures that could revolutionize how autonomous vehicles and robots perceive the world around them.

Details:

• HADAR cuts through visual obstructions like fog, smoke, and darkness.

• Unlike sonar, radar and LiDAR (which rely on reflected signals), HADAR uses invisible infrared radiation to reconstruct scenes with clarity similar to daylight, even in darkness.

• HADAR could be utilized in AI systems for self-driving vehicles, autonomous robots, and touchless security screenings at public events.

What this means: HADAR lets machines see in the dark. A little scary, but this could lead to safer autonomous systems in the future.

FRONTIER MODEL FORUM

🔒 Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch AI safety body

The Rundown: In response to growing calls for regulation, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have formed the Frontier Model Forum, an industry body that promotes the safe and responsible development of AI models.

Details:

• Aims to advance AI safety research, identify best practices, and collaborate with policymakers, academia, and civil society to mitigate risks.

• Plans to support the development of applications that address major societal challenges, such as climate change and early cancer detection.

• Reflects Big Tech's desire to address safety concerns proactively and potentially create their own rules ahead of imposed regulations.

Why it matters: With the formation, big tech makes it clear that it's not just about creating awesome tech anymore. It's about making sure that tech plays nicely with the rest of the world.

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QUICK HITS

🎧 Spotify CEO teases AI features

Daniel EK, the CEO of Spotify, mentioned during yesterday's earnings call that the streaming service is looking to introduce more AI-powered features, including personalized experiences, podcast summarization, and AI-generated audio ads.

📲 A personalized AI in your pocket

Rewind just launched its truly personalized AI for iPhone. It captures and makes everything you've seen on your Mac and iPhone searchable, acting as a personalized AI in your pocket. Within 7 hours, it broke into the top 100 productivity apps in the App Store and is still moving up fast.

🎥 Hollywood studios double down on AI

Amidst the ongoing labor strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, partly due to fears of AI replacement, studios are doubling down on their investment in AI. Netflix is seeking a Product Manager for its AI Machine Learning Program to optimize content production. It will pay the right candidate $900k/year!

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Happy Wednesday!

According to the “Godfather of AI,” AI has or will have emotions.

Might want to stop trying to trick ChatGPT…

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 “Godfather of AI” thinks AI has or will have emotions

• 🇯🇵 Japan Ministry to develop AI supercomputer

• ❌ 61% of Americans think AI could spell end of humanity

• 🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GEOFFREY HINTON

🤖 ”Godfather of AI” thinks AI has or will have emotions

Image source: Chloe Ellingson, New York Times

The Rundown: Geoffrey Hinton—“the Godfather of AI,” who famously left Google to talk about AI freely, said at a recent talk that he thinks AI already has or will have, emotions.

Details:

• Hinton believes that deep learning can achieve and even surpass human-like intelligence.

• During a talk at King's College in London, he suggested that AI systems could have feelings like frustration and anger.

• His view is based on a definition of feelings that involves relating hypothetical actions to communicate emotional states, which AI systems can do.

• Hinton refrained from expressing this idea publicly earlier due to the resistance he faced regarding his first thesis about superior AI threatening humanity.

Is this our reminder to say our please and thank yous to ChatGPT?

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• Smart Nudges: Increase user engagement and encourage upgrades with strategically timed (and non-annoying) nudges.

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JAPAN

🇯🇵 Japan Ministry to develop AI supercomputer

Image source: NIKKEI Asia

The Rundown: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has announced plans to develop a supercomputer to help advance the country’s AI industry.

Details:

• The existing computing power in Japan has been insufficient for generative AI development, leading to reliance on foreign cloud services.

• The new supercomputer project will cost around $450 million and will be operational by 2025, with a processing speed of 100 petaflops.

• It will be operated by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and open to Japanese brands.

• The supercomputer could accelerate Japan's progress in AI and position it as a leader in AI research and development on the global stage.

Why it matters: A couple of weeks ago, we heard Japan was pushing AI in the educational system, and now they’re building the supercomputer. Japan clearly believes in the future of AI and is investing heavily.

IPSOS

❌ 61% of Americans think AI could spell end of humanity

Image source: Ipsos / Reuters

The Rundown: According to a survey conducted by Ipsos, 61% of Americans believe the fast-paced growth of AI could endanger the future of humanity.

Key points:

• The survey showed that the proportion of people expecting negative consequences from AI is three times higher than those who don't, with 61% expressing concerns and only 22% disagreeing.

• The Future of Life Institute, behind the "open letter" demanding a pause in AI research, views the current moment as similar to the beginning of the nuclear era.

• While some experts, like Geoffrey Hinton, emphasize the pressing risks to humanity, others such as Jaron Lanier, Bill Gates, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, disagree with this sentiment.

Our opinion: 61% is shockingly high. If there’s one thing to take away from this survey, it’s that mass education about the potential benefits of AI, as well as the potential dangers to society is of the utmost importance right now.

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🤖 Meet an AI is Omegle but for meeting AI characters

🔮 Supertools organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot

QUICK HITS

🔎 AI to help detect breast cancer

Cardiff University researchers created an AI system to help doctors detect cancer by learning from radiologists' eye movements when analyzing medical images. The AI aims to support and enhance radiologists' decision-making without replacing them, potentially leading to earlier cancer detection.

📱 ChatGPT app is coming to Android

OpenAI has launched the ChatGPT Android app in the US, Brazil, India, and Bangladesh, following the successful release of the iOS app. The Android version of the app will offer the exact same features as the iOS app.

🚀 Cohere launches knowledge assistant

AI company Cohere has launched Coral, a knowledge assistant designed for enterprise use, aiming to provide tailored responses to knowledge workers based on their industry-specific data. It references both internal company data and public sources, and it stores sensitive data in a cloud-agnostic secure environment.

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Happy Tuesday!

After endless talk about the dangers of AI, Big Tech is finally committing to safety standards.

Let’s get into it.

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🔒 Big Tech promises AI safeguards

• 📱 Bing Chat is coming to Chrome and Safari

• 🪙 OpenAI CEO launches cryptocurrency

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

🔒 Big Tech promises AI safeguards

Image source: Adam Schultz, Alamy Stock

The Rundown: Under pressure from the Biden Administration, major AI companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft committed to implementing safety standards in response to the growing concerns about AI.

Key points:

• The commitment comes after concerns over potential threats AI technology poses, including OpenAI's ChatGPT investigation.

• The companies will conduct internal and external security testing, share information on managing AI risks, invest in cybersecurity, and prioritize research on AI's societal risks.

• The move aims to ensure responsible use and governance of AI amid the rapid development and rollout of the technology.

Why it matters: There’s been a lot of talk, too much talk, on the potential dangers of AI. It’s great to see all the major tech players come together and pledge for AI safety.

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MICROSOFT

📱 Bing Chat is coming to Chrome and Safari

Image source: Bing Chat

The Rundown: Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot is currently being tested on Google Chrome and Safari browsers, expanding access beyond its initial availability on Edge.

Details:

• Some limitations on Chrome and Safari include a 2,000-word prompt limit and conversation reset after only five turns (almost unusable).

• Pop-ups prompt users to download Edge when using Bing Chat on Chrome.

• Dark mode has been introduced for Bing Chat but not fully rolled out yet.

Why it matters: Enabling Bing AI on Chrome while enforcing limitations and popups to download their free browser to disable limitations is a classic power move by Microsoft.

Turns out it’s hard to get users to download Edge when everyone has been on default mode on Chrome for so long.

OPENAI

🪙 OpenAI CEO launches cryptocurrency

Image source: CoinMarketCap

The Rundown: Open AI CEO Sam Altman just launched Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency aiming to create a globally-inclusive identity and financial network.

Details:

• Worldcoin aims to create a global identity network with a unique digital identity for individuals known as a World ID.

• The project aims to differentiate humans from AI and potentially lead to AI-funded universal basic income.

• The project faces criticism for alleged deceptive practices in some countries and challenges in the global regulatory climate for cryptocurrencies.

The relevance: Although not directly AI-related, Worldcoin’s design caters to a world where AI and humans have significant interdependence. The Altman is everywhere.

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🌊 workstreams.ai automates workflows and manages tasks

🧠 MindStudio helps you build AI apps using no-code tools

🔎 Lyzr.ai allows you to analyze data without any code

🔮 Supertools organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot

QUICK HITS

❌ OpenAI quietly shuts down tool

OpenAI previously introduced an AI detection tool called AI Classifier to identify content created using AI. However, due to its low accuracy, the tool has been discontinued, and OpenAI is now exploring more effective methods to detect AI-generated content.

💼 Europe’s first company led by AI

UK-based HealthTech startup Hunna Technology, has introduced IndigoVX, the first-ever AI in europe to serve as a CEO of a company. Combining AI with human intelligence, the system operates as a supervised AI, collaborating with humans to make optimal business decisions.

🎙️ Chief of Innovation: “AI hype is driven by marketing”

In a recent interview, Duke professor and former FDIC's chief innovation officer, Sultan Meghji, cautioned about the AI hype, stating, "So much of AI right now is just driven by marketing teams and not actually by technologies, so I think it's not surprising at all that we're talking about the hype cycle."

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Happy Monday!

Stability AI has just released two new open-source Large Language Models.

The verdict: It beats GPT-4 in several aspects. Let’s dig in.

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 Stability AI releases 2 new open-source LLMs

• 🔒 OpenAI’s head of trust and safety steps down

• 🎧 Researchers can now turn your thoughts into music

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

STABILITY AI

🤖 Stability AI releases 2 new open-source LLMs

Image source: Stability AI

The Rundown: Stability AI has released FreeWilly1 and FreeWilly2, two open-source Large Language Models developed by its own CarperAI lab.

Details:

• Both models excel in reasoning and understanding linguistic subtleties, validated through various benchmarks.

• The data generation process was inspired by Microsoft's methodology, using high-quality instructions from specific datasets.

• FreeWilly models demonstrate exceptional performance despite being trained on a smaller dataset compared to previous models.

• FreeWilly2 beats GPT-4 in some areas and GPT-3 in most.

Why it matters: With Llama and now FreeWilly, the open-source community is on a big win streak. As competition brews, there’s no doubt we’ll be getting faster developments in the AI space.

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OPENAI

🔒 OpenAI’s head of trust and safety steps down

The Rundown: Dave Willner, OpenAI's former head of trust and safety, has announced his departure and transition to an advisory role.

Key points:

• Dave’s departure raises questions about leadership in addressing trust and safety concerns in the field of generative AI.

• OpenAI is now actively seeking a replacement for Willner to manage trust and safety.

• The industry faces increasing challenges in ensuring safe and responsible use of AI technology.

Why it matters: The safety of AI has been the topic of conversation, with some calling it more dangerous than nuclear weapons. The departure of the head of trust and safety from the world’s leading AI company is a big deal.

GOOGLE RESEARCH

🎧 Researchers can now turn your thoughts into music

Image source: Google Research

The Rundown: Researchers at Google found a method called “Brain2Music” to reconstruct music from human brain activity.

Details:

• The approach involves using either music retrieval or a music generation model called MusicLM conditioned on embeddings derived from fMRI data.

• The generated music closely resembles the musical stimuli experienced, including semantic properties like genre, instrumentation, and mood.

• The study investigates the relationship between different components of MusicLM and brain activity through voxel-wise encoding modeling analysis.

Why it matters: We’re headed into a world where music is not just heard but also seen through brain patterns. The future is going to be amazing.

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🧠 Merging AI with human brain cells

Australian researchers just secured a $600k bag to explore the melding of human brain cells with AI. The researchers aim to grow brain cells in a lab dish and, according to the researchers, allow machine intelligence to “learn throughout its lifetime.“

🤝 Google commits to responsible AI

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts!

Just 11 days after the public release of Code Interpreter, ChatGPT has another huge update.

And yes, people are already hacking it. Let’s dig in.

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 Huge ChatGPT update allows ‘custom instructions’

• 🗞️ Google’s “Genesis“ AI can write news articles

• 🚔 Police use AI to catch drug trafficker

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🤖 Huge ChatGPT update allows ‘custom instructions’

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The Rundown: OpenAI has released ‘Custom instructions,‘ a huge update to ChatGPT. It gives you more control over responses by setting instructions for the model to remember across all conversations.

Details:

• Allows you to insert two prompts of up to 1500 characters for ChatGPT to remember across conversations

• Available in Beta for Plus users (everywhere except for the UK and EU) and ‘coming soon’ to free users

• To enable, click the three dots under your ChatGPT history → Settings & Beta → Beta Features → Custom Instructions

• Besides custom instructions, OpenAI has also increased GPT-4’s message cap from 25 to 50 every 3 hours

Insane examples (within the past 12 hours):

• Nick Dobos showed us how to recreate babyAGI

• Roman Semenov jailbroke ChatGPT against previous instructions

This update comes just 11 days after the release of Code Interpreter. The production speed of OpenAI is truly incredible.

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GOOGLE

🗞️ Google’s “Genesis“ AI can write news articles

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The Rundown: Google is actively meeting with news organizations to pitch an AI tool, code-named "Genesis," that can write news articles.

Details:

• The tool has been pitched to several publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the owner of The Wall Street Journal

• Some executives found it "unsettling," expressing concerns about AI producing inaccurate news stories

• Google clarifies that the AI-enabled tools are not meant to replace journalists but rather to act as co-pilots

Our take: Will AI replace clickbait journalists? Possibly. Will AI replace fact-checking? No. The role of investigative journalism and hard fact-checking will be more important than ever in the age of AI-generated content.

NEW YORK POLICE

🚔 Police use AI to catch drug trafficker

The Rundown: Police in New York used an AI-driven platform called Rekor to identify and apprehend a drug trafficker named David Zayas.

Details:

• The platform uses an automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system with 480 cameras to scan 16 million vehicles a week, collecting data like license plate numbers, make, and model

• Rekor's software analyzes regional traffic patterns and records vehicle trajectories to identify suspicious behavior

• By assessing Zayas' travel patterns between Massachusetts and upstate New York, the algorithm determined that his activity was similar to a drug trafficker

Our take: While AI allowing law enforcement to identify criminal behavior is amazing, it’s slightly concerning to think of the potential for misuse and invasion of privacy.

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🙈 Scientists are using AI to ‘talk’ to animals

Scientists are leveraging portable sensors and AI to communicate with various animal species. While the technology won't enable humans to speak like animals, it's helping us to understand their complex communication methods and even interact in their own languages.

💻 GitHub Copilot injects an AI Chat

GitHub Copilot, the world’s most popular AI coding assistant, has announced its new Copilot Chat feature is now available as a limited public beta for enterprise companies and organizations. It’s similar to ChatGPT, designed to enhance developers' productivity.

🔥 AI headshot app Remini tops Instagram’s Threads

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Good morning, AI enthusiasts!

Apple finally caved and joined the AI frenzy.

Better late than never, I guess?

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🍎 Apple enters the AI frenzy with ‘Apple GPT‘

• 🧠 Study shows ChatGPT has gotten ‘dumber‘

• 🕵️ British spies use AI to disrupt Russia’s shipments

• 🛠️ 7 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

Read time: 3 minutes

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APPLE

🍎 Apple enters the AI frenzy with ‘Apple GPT‘

The Rundown: Apple is (finally) entering the AI arena with its own artificial intelligence tools, including a conversational AI chatbot named "Apple GPT," to compete with leading AI chatbots.

Key points:

• Apple has developed a framework called "Ajax" and has deployed a chatbot dubbed “Apple GPT” within internal systems

• Apple GPT will compete directly against leading AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard

• A consumer product is aimed for next year

Why it matters: Apple is quite far behind the competition, but they have the software, hardware, and pre-existing ecosystem to be a massive competitor to existing chatbots.

The real question: will Siri finally turn into the JARVIS that it was inspired by?

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OPENAI

🧠 Study shows ChatGPT has gotten ‘dumber‘

The Rundown: A recent Stanford and UC Berkeley study found that GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 has worsened in quality since March 2023.

GPT-4 comparisons from March to June 2023:

• Finding prime numbers: down from 98% to 2.4%

• Writing good code: down from 52% to 10%

• Chain of thought reasoning: significantly more mistakes

Potential reasons:

• OpenAI may be prioritizing speed and cost savings over the quality

• The model could be learning from less accurate user inputs over time

• For safety reasons, the model might be designed to say 'no' to more questions

Noteworthy: The true root cause of ChatGPT getting “dumber“ remains unclear. The OpenAI team is now looking into the reports that users have shared from the comments of the many viral posts on Twitter yesterday.

UNITED KINGDOM MI6

🕵️ British spies use AI to disrupt Russia’s shipments

The Rundown: UK's MI6 is using AI to disrupt the supply of critical weapons to Russia, according to MI6 Chief Richard Moore.

Key Points:

• MI6 is using AI to enhance human judgment in global intelligence

• AI is an asset that makes information “infinitely more accessible”

• UK and its allies are pushing to master the ethical and safe use of AI

• Moore maintained that AI wouldn't replace human agents, despite its increasing influence on global intelligence

Noteworthy: Aside from MI6, numerous intelligence agencies, including the CIA and FBI in the US, are exploring how to use AI in their operations.

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🚗 Tesla starts production of Dojo supercomputer

Tesla has begun production of its Dojo supercomputer, a key pillar in their self-driving strategy, which aims to facilitate faster, cost-effective neural net training for autonomous vehicles.

🤯 AI creates a complete South Park video

Fable Studio's AI model, SHOW-1, leveraging the power of GPT-4, demonstrated its storytelling prowess by creating a full 22-minute South Park episode, requiring only a title, synopsis, and main events to begin the creative process.

🎥 Loom unveils AI beta feature: Auto Chapters

Loom, every internet entrepreneur’s favorite screen recorder, just announced a Public Beta program for its latest AI feature, 'Auto Chapters,' which identifies the main points in recordings and automatically creates timestamped chapters.

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