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We appreciate the patience dear readers.

Yesterday, this week’s publication was sent out prematurely in error.

But it just goes to show this newsletter is written by humans not AI…

Or is it? 🤖

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Google's Gemini AI tried to paint history with a diverse brush, but critics are calling foul.

Also, Air Canada's chatbot leads to a landmark refund case.

Plus, the US Justice Department hired its first ever Chief AI Officer.

Oh yeah, and Reddit plans to train AI with its data.

So, grab your beverage of choice.

Here’s your weekly dose of AI news.

Today’s newsletter includes:

• 📰 AI NEWS RECAP

• 🤿 AI DEEP DIVE

• 🛠️ AI TOOL OF THE WEEK

• ⚙️ GPT OF THE WEEK

• 📝 AI PROMPT OF THE WEEK

• 🎨 AI IMAGE OF THE WEEK

📰 AI NEWS RECAP

Google Gemini’s Blunder: Historically Inaccurate Images

In the world of AI, striking a balance in representation has been a long-standing challenge.

Historically, AI models have been criticized for a bias towards white and Caucasian figures,

Often underrepresenting people of color.

Enter Google's Gemini AI,

Which seems to have taken an ambitious leap to address these biases.

Google's Gemini AI has stirred the pot by generating historically inaccurate images,

And Google's saying "our bad."

Gemini tried to paint a diverse picture of history,

Showing us Founding Fathers and WWII soldiers as people of color.

A bold move, but one that's sparked a heap of controversy.

Critics argue it's an overcorrection for AI's past racial bias blunders.

Google's response?

They're on it, aiming to fix these "inaccuracies" ASAP.

The debate's caught fire on social media,

With some calling out Google for erasing historical truths in the name of diversity.

My Take:

Google's heart might be in the right place.

But this blunder has opened up an important question…

How do we create models that are both diverse and historically accurate?

Yes, diversity's key, but not at the cost of factual integrity.

Google must find that sweet spot,

Where innovation meets accuracy.

Until then, it's back to the drawing board.

What's your take?

Is Google rewriting history, or just trying to right past wrongs?

Elon Musk even had a take on Google’s blunder.

Elon Musk's X Eyes Partnership with Midjourney for AI Art. Elon Musk hints at a potential collaboration between X and Midjourney, aiming to transform social media engagement by enabling users to create AI-generated art, challenging traditional creativity boundaries.

Groq's AI Chip Outpaces Competition, Including Musk's Grok. Groq introduces AI chips that significantly speed up language models, making real-time AI interactions feasible and setting new industry standards for speed and efficiency, potentially transforming AI chatbot applications.

Justice Department Appoints First Chief AI Officer. The Justice Department names Jonathan Mayer as its first chief AI officer, focusing on AI's impact on law enforcement and advising on technology use, reflecting the government's push to integrate AI responsibly.

Air Canada Ordered to Refund After Chatbot Misinformation. Air Canada must refund a customer due to incorrect information provided by its AI chatbot about bereavement fare policies, challenging the airline's claim that the chatbot was liable, not the company.

Reddit Inks Deal to Train AI with User Content. Reddit reportedly signs a $60 million deal to use its vast user-generated content for AI model training, stirring debate over the ethics and implications for user privacy and platform integrity.

Google One Enhances Productivity Tools with Gemini AI. Google integrates Gemini AI into Google One's AI Premium plan, enhancing Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Meet with advanced AI capabilities, aiming to boost user creativity and productivity across its suite of applications.

Google Introduces Gemma: Open Models for AI Development. Google launches Gemma, a set of open models for developers, built on the same technology as Gemini. Gemma aims to foster responsible AI innovation with tools for safety and efficiency, available in two sizes and optimized across various frameworks and hardware.

AI Layoffs: More Scapegoat Than Culprit. Despite fears, AI's role in tech layoffs is minimal, with industry focusing on AI development not directly replacing jobs but potentially shifting company priorities and investment, challenging the narrative of AI-driven workforce reductions.

Disney Accelerator Fuels Tech Creativity. Disney's Accelerator program celebrates 10 years, introducing five tech companies focused on enhancing creativity and media technology, showcasing Disney's commitment to innovation.

Will Smith's AI-Generated Spaghetti Video Goes Viral, AGAIN. OpenAI just released Sora, its hyper-realistic AI Video Generation tool, which has resulted in many demanding it be used to re-create the infamous ‘Will Smith Eating Spaghetti’ video generated by AI a year ago.

ElevenLabs Teases AI-Generated Sound Effects. ElevenLabs previews its upcoming feature that generates sound effects from text prompts, such as "waves crashing" or "birds chirping," showcasing the potential of AI in enhancing audio content for various applications.

🤿 AI DEEP DIVE

Explore the fast-approaching reality of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) with David Shapiro's insightful analysis where he predicts transformative changes in just seven months.

Shapiro delves into the criteria defining AGI, from general knowledge encompassing all human understanding to superior reasoning surpassing human intelligence.

As AGI promises to challenge and exceed human capabilities in various professions, this video serves as a crucial guide for professionals and enthusiasts alike, eager to understand the future landscape of AI and its impact on society.

🛠️ AI TOOL OF THE WEEK

OpusClip: OpusClip leverages big data to analyze your video content in relation to the latest social and marketing trends from major platforms, and generates a comprehensive understanding of your video for a data-driven decision on content repurposing.

It then picks the highlighting moments of your long video, rearranges them into a viral-worthy short and polishes it with dynamic captions, AI-relayout, smooth transition to ensure that the clip is coherent and attention-grabbing, and ends with a strong call-to-action.

Send your tool here to be featured next week!

⚙️ GPT OF THE WEEK

Wolfram: Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine that provides answers to factual queries by computing the answer from externally sourced data.

📝 AI PROMPT OF THE WEEK

Copy and paste this into your favorite chatbot.

Devise a recipe for a meal that exists in two states at once, drawing on quantum superposition to enhance the dining experience.

🎨 AI IMAGE OF THE WEEK

Copy and paste this into your favorite image generator.

A hubble telescope image of a surreal benevolent cosmic octopus made of flowing blue energy with a thousand arms bathed in a beam of golden orange light. The octopus is floating in space and pushing its arms into a living substrate. Its is absorbing energy from the substrate through its tentacles.

Not paying for Midjourney or DALL-E 3?
Click here for Microsoft’s FREE image creator.

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