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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
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October 13, 2024
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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
AI-HOI and happy Sunday, AInauts!
Maybe you didn't catch all the exciting news, tools and hacks about AI last week, or maybe you've just joined us. No need to worry!
We have summarized our highlights of the past week for you:
Finally, below you will find the most important quick news for you - so you can keep an eye on all relevant developments with just one click! Ready? Let's go!
OpenAI has released ChatGPT Canvas - the first major update in two years! A new collaborative workspace makes programming and writing more efficient and fun. You can edit text and code directly, get contextual suggestions and even add emojis with one click. 😁
Compared to competitors such as Claude Artifacts and NotebookLM, Canvas scores with Internet access and practical features. And if we look into the future, we predict autonomous agents and multimodal AI next.
Google's NotebookLM catches everyone's eye - is this the ChatGPT moment for Google? Maybe!
Thanks to the multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro model, the possibilities are enormous. And Google is already working on the next features: "Audio Overviews" in other languages, "MagicDraft" and personalized chatbots! We are excited.
Use cases? Infinite! Up to 25 million words per notebook - welcome to a huge context window! Turn PDFs, eBooks or YouTube videos into exciting audio discussions or learn smarter with AI-generated study guides. Even Sam Altman is a fan!
Welcome to the reality of "Black Mirror"! The Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses and the ominous "I-XRAY" tool make it possible to obtain detailed information about strangers in seconds.
A live video here, a bit of facial recognition there, and bang - the person's whole life is served up on a silver platter. The students behind it just wanted to raise awareness, but we're sure that there will soon be copycats on GitHub and everyone will be able to use this technology …
Bolt.new promises to conjure up complete apps with simple prompts - and without having to program. We tried to create an app that converts text into images using the Replicate API - and failed when trying to publish it. But we're sure we'll get it right, and we think Bolt.new is worth a try - it's even free to use for now!
But who needs coding tools when you can build a functioning AI image generator app in 10 minutes with Zapier? You can build your own mini-apps with countless templates and clever automation. Sure, Zapier isn't perfect and costs money, but who wants to bother with complicated programming when it's that easy?
There is a new prompting technique that significantly improves the responses of our favorite language models like ChatGPT: Reflection Tuning. By running the AI through a chain of thought and reflect on the output before responding, hallucinations are minimized and results are more accurate.
With an enhanced prompt, which particularly shines in Claude 3.5 Sonnet, complex challenges can be mastered even more effectively. Try out the new prompt and experience the difference for yourself!
📰 AI news quickie: HAI highlights from the industry
Chatbots
Microsoft's Copilot Voice seems to trump ChatGPT and Gemini - it’s free and available on all devices. Pure productivity power!
ChatGPT's Advanced Voice makes Siri look old - you can set up more human conversations with just a few clicks on your iPhone.
OpenAI also wants to incorporate SearchGPT into ChatGPT by the end of the year, but without much rewards for publishers. They will simply receive clicks, but no monetary rewards.
Many developers also feel let down by the OpenAI GPT Store - the promised revenue share is only available to a select few ...
Google's Gemini app has been given a fresh design on Android - clearer, simpler and more intuitive.
And companies can use Google's Gemini Code Assist Enterprise to code in a more secure and customized way - the perfect answer to GitHub's Copilot!
Google also presents 185 GenAI use cases from leading companies that use Gemini for service and productivity. Inspiring!
Tools
Microsoft Edge is testing Copilot Vision in the Canary browser - handy AI assistance, but still in the test phase.
Dive into AI topics with Play by Hyperspace - choose your sources and AI providers, and create your own information network!
FAL gives you access to KLING, Runway Gen3 and Luma Dream Machine APIs - pay per use and easily integrate them into your workflows! And create videos from your images with music thanks to Runway Flux. Why didn't anyone tell us this before?
Nvidia has released a massive, open AI model that comes close to GPT-4 in some areas.
Cap is the open-source Loom alternative to capture and share screen recordings.
Blinkshot is a free, open-source AI image generator that creates images in real time as you type.
Worth reading and listening to
The former Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has launched a new project, Schelling.ai. And he has a clear idea of where our journey is heading - here's a super interesting talk with Ray Kurzweil.
Lenny's podcast celebrates NotebookLM as a viral AI highlight and talks to Product Manager Raiza Martin about the creation, exciting features and the future of the product. Very inspiring!
A Russian group has outsmarted online poker systems with their clever AI - and has won millions in the process!
Imagine $1m with AI books! Prompt Advance shows how Joe is conquering the book world with his sophisticated AI strategies.
Interview with investor Vinod Khosla - he is betting heavily on generative AI, despite skeptics and global challenges such as climate change.
Meta's Yann LeCun chats about the limits of LLMs and the future of AI in the Lex Fridman podcast - always worth a listen!
Not enough time to listen to the whole podcast? Plug it into NotebookLM or use PodSnap.AI - it summarizes over 4.2 million shows for you! Time is money, right?
Industry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to AI pioneers Hassabis, Baker & Jumper, who are honored for their use of AI to predict and create proteins. And two other pioneers, Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, receive the Nobel Prize in Physics, which does not go over well with everyone...
A US survey confirms: AI is not hype - 25% use GenAI for over an hour a day on the job, and the adoption is racing at a historic pace! Almost 40% of the US workforce is already using GenAI, reports VentureBeat.
What does the future hold? The authors of narrowpath.co believe that super-intelligent AI could endanger us as a species - and have developed a plan to prevent this from happening.
The American army is testing armed robot dogs with AI guns in the Middle East - high-tech on four paws metal knuckles ...
Tesla introduces the personal robot for 30,000 dollars and promises cheap cyber cabs.
OpenAI has similar KPIs to Groupon & WeWork - and spends 1.5 times more on training than inference. It will still lose over 44 billion dollars before it is expected to be profitable in 2029. Fingers crossed!
Lonely? AI companions work just as well as real friends against loneliness, according to a study ...
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI are part of the EU AI pact - no sign of Apple and Meta. But there are still many question marks, and an open letter demands clear AI rules from the EU to secure Europe's innovative strength.
Elon Musk's xAI moves into the former OpenAI HQ in San Francisco, while OpenAI also sets up shop in New York in the Puck Building.
Humanoid AI Aria gave her first TV interview - and students decipher 2,000-year-old texts with AI.
The mini safari animals are on the loose! (via Reddit - hailuo AI x Minmax)
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Fabian & Reto
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