Howdy, happy Monday, AI family! 🐶

🧵 Here’s some useful AI news and tools I gathered today:

• 🤑 Tech exec predicts ‘AI girlfriends’ will create $1B business

• 🤌 13 Cool AI/Tech updates

• 🔍️ + new AI Tools, Resources, and other news

Ready, Set, Go: Today’s read should be about a 3.5 minute read.

AI GIRLFRIEND

🤑 Tech exec predicts ‘AI girlfriends’ will create $1B business

Greg Isenberg, CEO of Late Checkout, predicted a billion-dollar AI dating app market due to user engagement with AI-generated partners, sparking discussions about virtual relationships.

He recently tweeted about a man in Miami spending $10,000/month on AI girlfriends.

Here’s everything you need to know:

1. AI Interaction as a Hobby: The man likes interacting with AI companions to playing video games, indicating a casual approach to digital relationships.

2. Multiple Platforms: The individual uses multiple AI companion websites offer immersive and personalized chat experiences.

3. Features of AI Companions: These platforms allow users to customize AI characters' likes and dislikes, providing a sense of comfort and companionship.

4. Market Reaction and User Engagement: Platforms such as Replika, Romantic AI, and Forever Companion offer varied experiences from creating ideal partners to engaging in erotic roleplay.

5. Survey Insights: A recent survey from Infobip found that nearly 20% of Americans have flirted with chat bots. Nearly half of them — 47.2% — did so out of curiosity while 23.9% said they were lonely and seeking interactions.

Bladerunner 2049 predicted this. We are heading in a strange direction.

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Cool updates

1. Meta is already testing a consumer neural interface that understands what you are thinking through technology you wear on your wrist.

2. Claude is now miles ahead of ChatGPT. The free version of Claude gives much better answers than the ChatGPT 4 Pro version.

3. Drake posted "Taylor Made Freestyle," a new diss track aimed at Kendrick Lamar featuring the AI vocals of rappers Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg.

4. Tesla is recalling more than 3,000 of its 2024 Cybertrucks due to faulty pedals.

5. Google is now helping with real-time knowledge in Meta AI. How Meta got Google search results in its AI chatbot.

6. Bitcoin miners upgrade power centers and get into AI to brace for slashed revenue post-halving.

7. A new TikTok ban bill passed in the House and is expected to become law this week, as TikTok prepares to challenge it.

8. OpenAI's unreleased Sora was used to show what TED will look like in 40 years.

9. Mark Zuckerberg says the AI in Meta's glasses will soon have context awareness of what's happening in your environment and will be able to give you feedback on what you're doing.

10. Wayve introduced LINGO-2, a driving model that links vision, language, and action to explain and determine driving behavior. It can both generate real-time driving commentary and control a car.

11. Poe, the AI chat app by Quora, has added a new feature to Poe: multi-bot chat. It lets you easily chat with multiple models in a single thread, compare the responses, and discover optimal combinations of models for various tasks.

12. BBC to invest £6m in AI to help transform its education services.

13. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have demonstrated that OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real-world security vulnerabilities effectively by using CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) advisories. 

REPORT

🤖 A monster of a paper by Stanford, a 500-page report on the 2024 state of AI

Here are the top 7 takeaways from the report:

1. AI outperforms humans in tasks like image classification but struggles with complex challenges such as high-level mathematics and visual commonsense reasoning.

2. The cost of developing top AI models, like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Gemini Ultra, has soared, reaching up to $191 million.

3. The US continues to lead global AI innovation, with 61 notable models in 2023, outpacing the EU's 21 and China's 15.

4. There's a lack of standardization in evaluating AI model responsibility, complicating risk assessments across different models.

5. Investment in generative AI has significantly increased, reaching $25.2 billion in 2023 despite a drop in overall AI investment.

6. Studies in 2023 show that AI boosts worker productivity and work quality, though caution remains about its unsupervised use.

7. AI regulation in the US has dramatically increased, with 25 new regulations in 2023, up from one in 2016.

Here’s the report.

Useful AI Links

🔍️ Trending Tools

• Minard - natural language data visualization.

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• Ideamap - empower your team to brainstorm better and faster.

• Empaithy - an app for emotional support and self-reflection through micro-journaling.

• Spline AI - generate 3D objects from text prompts and images.

• Kaiden - a tool to automate lesson planning, content creation, and grading.

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