🗞️ AI News Recap

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Happy Sunday! Think of AI like a bustling city, and each day, new skyscrapers of information rise. Not having recaps is like wandering around this city without a map – you'd feel lost, right? Today, we're here to be your guides, showing you the the must-see landmarks from the past week and helping you navigate this digital world!

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Part 19 | AI News Recap #ai #ainews #aiavatar #chatgpt

🐇 QUICK BITES — THE PAST WEEK

Google Launches a Unified AI Tool

Fragmented AI services can be inconvenient, but Bard Extensions in English aim to change this. The new product enables Bard to interact across Google tools, simplifying tasks like trip planning by pulling data from Gmail, providing real-time info, and even showing YouTube videos. If desired, user data remains private, and a "Google it" button that allows users to double check answers adds credibility to Bard's responses.

Neuralink’s Thought to Text Moves to Human Trials

Elon Musk's Neuralink is taking a monumental step by recruiting patients for its first-ever human clinical trials. The aim? To let people control a computer keyboard using nothing but their thoughts. This breakthrough trial specifically targets patients with quadriplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 Unite!

DALL-E 3 integrated with ChatGPT will be released in October. This new version enhances image requests through more descriptive and relevant prompts. It is expected to generate higher-quality images and handle challenging content better. OpenAI is ensuring fairness and safety, with aims to reduce biases and reject image requests involving living artists or public figures. Artists can also opt out of future training use.

Former Meta AI Vice President Launches a Startup

Jerome Pesenti, a former Meta AI VP, has launched Sizzle, an AI-powered learning app and chatbot. It's a free app that provides step-by-step solutions for math and word problems in subjects like physics and chemistry, catering to students from middle school to college. Sizzle also offers grading, step regeneration, multiple answers, and photo uploads for assignments. Unlike some apps that simply provide answers, Sizzle acts as a tutor, guiding students through problem-solving and allowing them to ask questions for better comprehension.

Youtube’s Dream Screen

YouTube's new Dream Screen feature enables users to create AI-generated video backgrounds by typing their ideas, aiming to attract more creators to the platform, which currently has 70 billion daily views. While limited to selected creators for now, Dream Screen is set to be publicly available next year.

Polish Authorities Confirm OpenAI Investigations

Poland's data authority has now publicly confirmed its investigations into OpenAI following an EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaint about ChatGPT. The complaint alleges data processing issues and opacity in the process. The investigation is anticipated to be complex due to OpenAI's location outside the EU and the novelty of generative AI chatbot technology.

Uber Eats’ New AI Chatbot

Uber Eats is diving into the AI scene with a new Google-powered chatbot feature, set to be released end of 2023. This assistant is designed to not only help you discover the best restaurant deals but will soon assist in meal planning, spotting grocery sales, and even ordering ingredients straight from recipes.

Insightful CEO Perspective on AI’s Limits

Dario Amodei, Anthropic's CEO, reveals at TechCrunch Disrupt that he sees no clear limits to AI’s potential. He boldly expresses, "What we see today is going to pale in comparison to what's coming in the next 2, 3, 4 years". As the race in AI technology intensifies, Amodei remains skeptical of skeptics and sees a bright future ahead.

Gizmo Plans to Improve the Way We Learn

Gizmo, a generative AI startup that aims to improve learning, has secured $3.5 million in seed funding from NFX, Ada Ventures and Capital T. For better engagement while learning, Gizmo generates interactive quizzes from class notes, whether copied and pasted or extracted from various sources like PDFs, PowerPoint, web pages or YouTube videos. The secured funding will support global expansion, engineer recruitment and feature development.

Breakfast Bots by Toyota

Toyota Research Institute has embarked on a delicious quest — training robots to help you make breakfast. Utilizing generative AI, these mechanical chefs are learning tasks like whisking eggs and pouring liquids. They aim to master up to 1,000 complex skills by the end of 2024. Breakfast may never be the same!

TikTok Puts a Label on AI

TikTok is rolling out a new feature that requires creators to label their content if it was made using AI tools. Aimed at fostering transparency, the AI label will appear below a creator's username, and the platform will also start testing automatic labeling for AI-generated content.

Salesforce Plans to Aquire Airkit.ai

Salesforce has declared its intentions to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform designed to assist e-commerce enterprises in constructing AI-driven customer service agents. The specific terms of this acquisition have not been made public. Airkit, headquartered in Redwood City, California, was established in 2017 by Adam Evans and Stephen Ehikian. It's worth noting that they had previously sold a prominent big data startup named RelateIQ to Salesforce for $390 million in 2014.

Microsoft Injects AI into SwiftKey

Microsoft is enhancing its SwiftKey mobile keyboard app for iOS and Android with AI features. This app replaces the default keyboard and learns your typing style for faster typing. The updates include AI camera lenses, stickers, an AI editor, and the ability to create AI images within the app.

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