A Tennis Robot, The EU AI Act is Here, and A Receptionist Tool for Vets
Artificial intelligence tools for Friday and the weekend. Enjoy!
Morning y’all!
It’s Friday and I’m so glad we’re at the end of the week since it’s been insanely busy around these parts — I’ve got friends and family in town so it’s why I’ve been spending a less time in front of my computer!
And the reality is that the older I get the less interested I am with being attached to a computing device, despite how many fun and cool things are happening. But, at least we have this newsletter, right?
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We’ve come a very long way in a short amount of time and the fidelity and quality of images being generated is getting to the point where it’s hard to know if what you’re seeing is real or imaginary.
Just think of where we’ll be next year (or 10)?!
This is a bit odd:
During a conversation, out of nowhere, GPT-4o yells "NO!"... then clones the user's voice. (OpenAI discovered this emergent behavior while safety testing GPT-4o)
Wow. Freaky.
A few fun links to review:
Speech-MASSIVE is a new multilingual model for spoken language.
AI is coming for India’s Tech Hub and people are feeling threatened by this.
Turing is a company that is gathering “human data” for every major AI company out there for the coming “agentic” era of AI.
Google is bringing Gemini-powered search history and Lens to Chrome.
Answer any questions, powered by your own content.
Silvia is a multilingual dictation tool for iOS. Really neat and as they expand into more languages this could be very useful. I imagine that it’ll become “Sherlocked” by Apple though as they release their own version of this with “Intelligence”.
Dodo is an AI receptionist for vets.
JPMorgan Chase is now giving its employees an AI-powered assistant (ChatGPT).
The AI Act is here and it focuses on ethical development via categories of risk. This is the European Union’s first attempt at this.
Google developed a robot to play tennis and you wouldn’t be surprised by the results, winning 45% of the matches.
Researches at Uppsala University used AI to accurately predict 3D structures of receptors linked to schizophrenia and depression treatments. Cool!
Hero is an iOS, all-in-one assistant for calendar, to-dos, notes, and more.
Napkin transforms text into visuals for business (storytelling).
AICamp is a platform for businesses to give their staff AI tooling so they can work with LLMs on the things that they need.
And that’s it! Have a great weekend folks!
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— Summer