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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
October 27, 2024
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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
AI-HOI and happy weekend, dear 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, we have 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!
Our daily AI favorites? Here they are, and all the links are in the original article.
With Flow from Wispr, we dictate texts that are automatically optimized - faster and without typos (Mac only, for now).
ChatGPT and Claude are our go-to for large files and code, an we have our own GPTs and projects. You prefer all-Chatbots-in-one-app? We recommend Typingmind or Poe. Google? We hardly use it anymore - Perplexity is our new BFF.
We create prompts with Anthropics Prompt Generator or OpenAI's Meta Prompt. Automation? Zapier and Make rock it!
We create images with FLUX or Ideogram, voices with ElevenLabs, and music with Udio or Suno. Videos? HeyGen, LumaLabs Dream Machine or KLING.ai.
But most importantly: think AI-first and explore new horizons!
Ready for a fun experiment with ChatGPT? Challenge the AI to create a picture of you based on all the data it has about you. No data? No problem! Just copy and paste your LinkedIn profile. It gets even more exciting if you ask for the opposite: let ChatGPT create a picture of you that is completely contrary to its impression. If you prefer text: Ask the AI to tell you something about yourself that you may not yet know. And for the brave, just add the follow-up prompt "Ok, roast me" and buckle up for a humorous thrashing!
Do you sometimes feel invisible on LinkedIn, because you get no engagement? We have the ultimate prompt that will make your content a hit - without spending hours pondering! And remember: prompting is a superpower.
Forget everything you knew about complicated AI agents! We're totally blown away by Lindy AI - the tool lets you build your own AI workers. Just imagine: You simply add your virtual assistant to an email, and poof, he/she/it organizes meetings, sends invitations and adapts to your preferences. This is more personalized than Calendly, and cooler than Zapier! The best part? You can organize your Lindys into teams that work on tasks together.
Do you want to create AI images in your brand colors, but are struggling to do so? Ideogram to the rescue! While most image AIs like to ignore color presets, the latest version of Ideogram allows you to set your own color palette. The tool usually sticks to it very well - perfect for anyone who juggles graphics and text and whose colors need to be on point.
Ready for the future? Anthropic has just introduced "Computer Use" with its AI Claude. Imagine your AI navigating your computer like you do: It recognizes what's happening on the screen, moves the mouse, clicks and types. Although it is still in beta and stumbles here and there, it opens the door to countless possibilities. Developers can now use it via API. And the best thing? You can set it up and try it out yourself in just 5 minutes! Fun Fact: Claude took a break during the recording of the demo and looked at pictures of Yellowstone National Park 😁.
📰 AI-News-Quickie: The HAI highlights from the industry
Here is the most important news, grouped by topic. Exciting times we live in, dear AInauts. Let's dive in!
🌐 AI agents are taking over the world (soon)
OpenAI's AI agents are supposed to launch in 2025 and will autonomously complete tasks - from phone calls to orders.
The MLE benchmark tests AI agents in 75 ML competitions - so far, the best have only achieved bronze in 16.9%. There is still room for improvement!
But Gartner predicts that AI agents will revolutionize software development, and SchellingAI (the new startup from ex-Stability CEO Emad Mostaque) sees an "AI Atlantis" coming our way - a universe of billions of AI agents.
In the "Agent Economy", AI replaces expensive employees - John Rush shows how it works.
Decagon's AI agents secure 65 million dollars and dominate competitions. Now the startup is going all out!
The open AI model Molmo understands images and can chat - the perfect foundation for smart AI agents on your computer.
And have you seen Agent.ai? A network of AI agents built by HubSpot founder Dharmesh.
Asana also wants a piece of the pie and throws their agents in the ring.
✨ New AI tools and functions
Anthropic has introduced Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku - with improved coding skills and experimental computer usage.
Genmo throws open the doors to open-source video AI with Mochi 1 - and it's really, really good!
OpenAI's new GPT-4 Audio Preview can generate any voice with a clever prompt - Max Woolf confirms it!
HeyGen launches Interactive Avatars - virtual avatars who speak in real time. Perfect for support and sales.
Canva presents Dream Lab - the brand-new AI text-to-image generator for creative masterpieces.
Apple Intelligence is being introduced with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1! ChatGPT will be added in iOS 18.2 - making Siri smarter.
Developers can use Apple's new APIs to build Apple Intelligence features like Genmoji and ChatGPT into apps - although some claim Apple is 2 years behind the competition.
Adobe MAX 2024 was cool, unveiling over 100 new AI features - magic for creatives!
Midjourney will soon let you edit images online with AI - change colors, redesign details and get even more creative.
Llama Workspace is the open alternative to ChatGPT Teams! Save up to 82%, work with GPT-4, Claude & Llama and be smarter, for less.
Kaiber launches Superstudio - an AI platform for seamless image and video creation.
FetchFox revolutionizes web scraping with GPT-4o-mini - same precision, only 1/30 of the cost!
ElevenLabs' new voice design enables the creation of unique voices using only text!
Unwind AI uses Whisper Large v3 Turbo in the browser - free, offline and transcribes more than a minute per second.
Blaine Brown presents the best open source text-to-speech: free, local and unlimited with any voice!
Open NotebookLM is an open-source alternative to the Google original, which is constantly being updated. Not quite as good yet, but open.
Explore the chat.dev platform for AI chats with any website.
Use QA-MDT for your music production with text-to-sound.
Storm researches via web and automatically creates Wikipedia-like pages.
📈 AI in companies and start-ups
Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI, could raise over 100 million dollars for her new AI startup. Details are still unclear, but we’ll keep an eye on it.
Google's 2 billion dollar investment in Anthropic is now being reviewed by the UK Competition Commission.
Generative AI kills SAP & Salesforce - Theo Priestley shows how you can use AI to dynamically control business processes and cut off old providers.
Corti wants to be the OpenAI of medicine and uses data of 100 million patients for precise diagnoses.
Emteq Labs presents emotion-recognizing smart glasses that track your feelings and look deep into your mind.
The future of advertising is here: Dior AI Spec Ad shows how AI is changing everything.
The company behind the (not particularly praised) Rabbit Device raises an additional $10 million for the first AI hardware r1. And the flopped Humane pin reduces the price by $200 …
OpenAI hires Aaron Chatterji as its first Chief Economist to research the economic impact of AI. In addition, Scott Schools joins the team as Chief Compliance Officer to guide AI regulation.
🔬 AI innovations, research & society
Google releases SynthID Text to tag AI texts.
The documentary series Social Studies shows the grim impact of social media on teenagers - AI will exacerbate this.
By 2030, you'll be rocking Zuckerberg's AR glasses - it'll be the biggest tech revolution since the iPhone!
Harvard presents the ChatGPT-like AI CHIEF with 96% accuracy for cancer diagnosis - a breakthrough!
Helm.ai presented VidGen-2, a generative AI for realistic training videos for self-driving cars.
a16z shows with the AI Brain how your thoughts can be transferred into AI.
King's College London lets robots think better - AI brains now have more space!
NVIDIA's Jensen Huang and King Frederik X launch the Gefion AI supercomputer and catapult Denmark into the AI future!
🏛️ AI regulation, politics & security
Author and historian Yuval Noah Harari warns: AI could herald the "golden age of totalitarianism" and endanger our democracies.
And Christian Uhle believes that we have created a new species with artificial intelligence...
Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI and warns: Nobody is ready for AGI - not even OpenAI! He therefore founds a non-profit for independent AI policy, while security expert Bruce Schneier calls for public AI models.
The AI Alignment Forum warns of catastrophic sabotage by human-like AI systems - the dark side of AI could become reality!
Benjamin Todd predicts: AGI is coming in 2029 and ASI soon after …
World launches the new, slimmer Orb for iris scanning - cheaper, simpler and ready to take over the world with AI-powered IDs, thanks to Sam Altman!
Researchers uncover the black market for AI-supported cybercrime - cheap tools for malware and phishing are readily available on the hacker market.
Cyber villains use generative AI to develop sophisticated malware.
Scammers are secretly hijacking homes - AI makes it easy for them ...
AI is eating up electricity! The New York Times shows how Big Tech's emissions are exploding due to the AI boost and fat data centers. Hopefully a solution to the climate problemwill also emerge ...
OpenAI postpones the release of Orion, and says: "Not this year!"
X changes its privacy policy - third parties are now allowed to train an AI on your posts - and the new X API is also available, by the way.
A mother sues Character.AI and Google because the AI chatbot is said to have addicted her son and urged him to commit suicide.
The White House is calling on the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to use AI more intensively to keep pace with China.
This is probably why the Pentagon wants to use AI to create deceptively real deepfake users that can recognize neither humans nor computers. The future of digital warfare is here!
Your AInauts,
Fabian & Reto
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