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1.) Top 5 Most Clicked News Articles From Last Week
A.) For The Vision Impaired, This AI Robot Aims To Replace Canes And Guide Dogs | ZDNet.com | March 6, 2024
This unassuming mobility aid — the Glide resembles a mini vacuum cleaner — has a lofty goal: Transform lives of the visually impaired by providing smart assistance for navigating the world.
B.) Apple Hinted At Big AI Plans. Here’s What AppleGPT Might Entail | FastCompany.com | March 10, 2024
Apple referred to its new M3 MacBook Air as the ‘best consumer laptop for AI’, raising questions about the company’s plans. Here’s one possible answer, which could be jaw-dropping.
C.) Eight Ways AI Accessibility Features Could Turbo-Boost The Apple Experience | 9to5Mac.com | March 7, 2024
Disability campaigner Colin Hughes has described eight ways that AI accessibility features could turbo-boost the experience of using Apple products this year.
D.) How To Use Google Gemini, The Main Challenger To ChatGPT | DigitalTrends.com | March 11, 2024
Google’s Gemini AI chatbot has quickly become one of the major players in the generative AI space. Despite its rocky start, Gemini is one of the only true competitors to ChatGPT. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
E.) How To Install Fabric — Open-Source AI Framework That Can Automate Your Life | Matthew Berman | YouTube | March 11, 2024
Fabric is described as an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. They have community-driven prompts that are tried and true and work well, and an easy command line interface with a UI coming soon.
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4.) Grok-1 Fully Tested — Fascinating Results | Matthew Berman | YouTube | March 18, 2024
Let’s test Grok using our LLM rubric. How does it compare to other models?
5.) Almost Timely News: A Large Language Model Power Technique | Christopher Penn | YouTube | March 17, 2024
In today’s episode I share a powerful technique to dramatically boost your productivity and accuracy when using AI tools. You’ll learn how to get the best results from chatbots and similar software. Discover this simple trick that will improve your AI experience.
6.) Open Release of Grok-1 | X.ai | March 17, 2024
We are releasing the weights and architecture of our 314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1.
7.) FTC Inquires About Reddit’s AI Deals, Ahead of IPO | Axios.com | March 15, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into Reddit’s licensing of user data to AI companies, according to a Friday afternoon disclosure by the social media company. Why it matters: This comes just days before Reddit is expected to complete its long-awaited IPO.
8.) AI News: Get Ready, The World is About to Change | Matt Wolfe | YouTube | March 15, 2024
Here’s the AI news from the past week you might have missed.
9.) Mercedes Is Trialing Humanoid Robots For ‘Low Skill, Repetitive’ Tasks | TheVerge.com | March 15, 2024
Mercedes will initially examine how well Apptronik’s Apollo robot delivers parts to human production line workers.
10.) Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future | Wired.com | March 14, 2024
Startups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames.
11.) Apple Buys Startup DarwinAI, Adds Staff To Its AI Division | Reuters.com | March 14, 2024
Apple has bought artificial intelligence (AI) startup DarwinAI and added dozens of the Canadian company’s staffers to its AI division, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
12.) SIMA Generalist AI Agent For 3D Virtual Environments | Deepmind.Google | March 14, 2024
We present new research on a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent (SIMA) that can follow natural-language instructions to carry out tasks in a variety of video game settings.
13.) OpenAI’s ChatGPT Now Gets a Humanoid Body | AnalyticsIndiaMag.com | March 14, 2024
Figure, an AI robotics company that claims to build the world’s first commercially viable autonomous humanoid robot, has made a huge stride by integrating a voice feature to its humanoid, Figure 01; the voice is powered by none other than OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
14.) Adobe Firefly repeats the same AI blunders as Google Gemini | Semafor.com | March 13, 2024
Firefly, Adobe’s AI image creation tool, repeats some of the same controversial mistakes that Google’s Gemini made in inaccurate racial and ethnic depictions, illustrating the challenges tech companies face across the industry.
15.) Anthropic Releases Claude 3 Haiku, An AI Model Built For Speed And Affordability | VentureBeat.com | March 13, 2024
San Francisco-based startup Anthropic has just released Claude 3 Haiku, the newest addition to its Claude 3 family of AI models. Haiku stands out as the fastest and most affordable model in its intelligence class, offering advanced vision capabilities and strong performance on industry benchmarks.
16.) OpenAI’s Sora Text-To-Video Generator Will Be Publicly Available Later This Year | TheVerge.com | March 13, 2024
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati tells The Wall Street Journal that Sora will eventually incorporate sound as well.
17.) World’s First Major Act To Regulate AI Passed By European Lawmakers | CNBC.com | March 13, 2024
The European Union’s parliament on Wednesday approved the world’s first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment. Born in 2021, the EU AI Act divides the technology into categories of risk, ranging from “unacceptable” — which would see the technology banned — to high, medium and low hazard. The regulation is expected to enter into force at the end of the legislature in May, after passing final checks and receiving endorsement from the European Council.
18.) Meet Devin: The First AI Software Engineer Redefining Code | FutureTools.io | March 12, 2024
Key Takeaways: Devin, the pioneering AI software engineer, is redefining what’s possible in coding and software development. Beyond passing coding benchmarks, Devin has showcased real-world capabilities by planning, coding, debugging, and deploying projects autonomously. Equipped with its own command line, code editor, and web browser, Devin can tackle complex software engineering tasks from start to finish. A standout demonstration involved Devin benchmarking API providers, overcoming unexpected errors through self-guided debugging, and deploying a fully styled website. Cognition AI invites the tech community to witness the future of software engineering and explore Devin’s capabilities for their real-world tasks.
19.) Google Won’t Let You Use Its Gemini AI To Answer Questions About An Upcoming Election In Your Country | TechCrunch.com | March 12, 2024
If you want to ask Google’s AI chatbot a question about an upcoming election, you will have to do it from a country where there are no elections taking place. TechCrunch has learned that the search giant has started to restrict queries made in Gemini when they relate to elections, in any market globally where elections are taking place.
20.) OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Addresses NYT Allegations | FutureTools.io | March 12, 2024
Key Takeaways: Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, refutes allegations made in a recent New York Times article. Murati emphasizes her direct and transparent feedback relationship with Sam. An independent review of OpenAI’s board governance has concluded. Murati criticizes the previous board’s attempt to use her as a scapegoat. The focus is now on moving forward and putting past gossip to rest.
21.) OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 Turbo leaked on search engines and could launch in June | The-Decoder.com | March 12, 2024
It seems that GPT-4.5 Turbo has been leaked by the OpenAI web team. The first search engines like Bing and DuckDuck Go indexed the GPT-4.5 Turbo product page before an official announcement.
22.) Deepgram’s Aura Gives AI Agents A Voice | TechCrunch.com | March 12, 2024
Deepgram has made a name for itself as one of the go-to startups for voice recognition. Today, the well-funded company announced the launch of Aura, its new real-time text-to-speech API. Aura combines highly realistic voice models with a low-latency API to allow developers to build real-time, conversational AI agents. Backed by large language models (LLMs), these agents can then stand in for customer service agents in call centers and other customer-facing situations.
23.) Midjourney Bans Rival AI Firm For Scraping Images | ArsTechnica.com | March 12, 2024
Midjourney pins blame for 24-hour outage on “bot-net like” activity from Stability AI employee.
24.) The Quest to Give AI Chatbots a Hand — and an Arm | Wired.com | March 11, 2024
Robotics startup Covariant is experimenting with a ChatGPT-style chatbot that can control a robotic arm, as a way to create machines that can be more helpful in the physical world.
25.) Elon Musk Announces xAI to Open Source Grok | FutureTools.io | March 11, 2024
Key Takeaways: Elon Musk has announced that xAI will open source Grok this week. In recent weeks, Elon Musk has criticized OpenAI for its deviation from open-source principles. Musk’s announcement to open source Grok through @xAI reflects a direct challenge to OpenAI’s practices. This strategic move is seen as an effort to realign with the original mission of making AI accessible to all. The lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman underscores Musk’s commitment to open innovation.
26.) MidJourney Introduces “Character Reference” Feature for Enhanced Creativity | FutureTools.io | March 11, 2024
Key Takeaways: MidJourney has rolled out a new “Character Reference” (cref) feature in its Discord server, aiming to refine the character design process in image generation. The feature allows users to specify an image URL as a character reference, adjusting how closely the generated character matches the reference’s face, hair, and clothes. Users can adjust the reference ‘strength’ to focus more on the face or include outfit and hair details, enhancing flexibility in character customization. While designed primarily for characters created within MidJourney, the tool advises against using real people’s photos due to potential distortion. The feature supports combining multiple references and is compatible with both Niji and standard MidJourney models, promising versatility in creative endeavors.
27.) AI Unpacked: A Teacher’s Companion To Discussing AI In Class | GPTZero.com | March 11, 2024
Original research on on how top educators approach AI in the classroom. AI is not a fleeting trend, but a permanent fixture. So educators need more than a “trace and penalize” approach to AI in student work. But what are the guidelines for engaging with AI at school? What do exams and assessments look like in the new reality? How can students continue to develop critical thinking skills? And once you find AI writing in student work, how do you approach that conversation? This playbook will help guide educators to engage critically with AI in class.
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