Preserving Lost Connections with AI “Virtual Humans”

A new company called You, Only Virtual aims to eliminate grief by using AI to create chatbots that mimic deceased loved ones. It scans the person’s texts, emails, and calls to model their speech patterns and rapport. The founder says you don’t need consent from the dead.

I am curious to know what you all think about this AI please feel free to leave your opinion below!

Tech Giants Pledge Responsible AI Development Amid Rapid Advances and Growing Concerns

Some of the biggest American tech companies have agreed to follow new guidelines for developing artificial intelligence responsibly. Companies like Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, met with President Biden at the White House. They promised to take voluntary steps to make sure their AI systems are safe and not harmful.

These new principles say that companies should thoroughly test their AI and study risks before releasing products publicly. Systems should be protected against hacking. Companies need to be transparent so users understand when content is made by AI. Any bias in AI systems should be removed. Privacy should be strengthened, especially for kids. National security risks should also be managed.

Apple Developing Own Chatbot?

Apple is secretly working on its first AI chatbot “Apple GPT” to compete with ChatGPT. Powered by Apple’s Ajax language model, the bot is currently being tested internally.

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Concerns Over Declining ChatGPT Performance

A new study shows a 97.6% drop in ChatGPT’s ability to recognize primes, a 52% to 10% decline in directly executable code generations, and fewer answers to tricky questions between March & June. Researchers recommend continuous monitoring as the performance of LLMs like GPT-3.5 & GPT-4 varies unpredictably over time. This issue arising is sparking debate. Experts disagree on whether this reflects true regression or intentional changes by OpenAI. More research is required.

OpenAI Custom Instructions for ChatGPT

OpenAI launched Custom Instructions, letting ChatGPT Plus users outside the UK/EU personalize responses. It’s in beta but allows ChatGPT to store individual preferences like brand voice or just information about you that it used to not be able to do.

Major Funding for AI Startups

Significant investments continue flowing into AI companies like Anthropic, Runway, Replicate, Causaly, and Tractable.

Stable Diffusion 2.0 Launch

An updated Stable Diffusion was released by Stability AI with improved techniques and 4x faster image generation.

Backlash Against AI Art Continues

Ongoing criticism surrounds AI art generators over legal and economic concerns, though some argue AI will empower creativity.

Israel Uses AI for Military Operations

The Israel Defense Forces now use AI to accelerate targeting and coordinating air strikes, with human supervision. But lack of regulation around military AI raises ethical alarms.

Anthropic Launches ChatGPT Competitor Claude 2

Anthropic released Claude 2, its new AI assistant aimed at rivaling ChatGPT. Claude 2 summarizes up to 75,000 words, far beyond ChatGPT’s limits. It also edges out ChatGPT in certain benchmarks like programming, specifically Python, it beat out ChatGPT’s previous benchmark by 3.5% before the degradation hit. You can also upload files to the AI platform a first for this kind of AI tool!

AI Air – Automating Sales and Service With Long, Natural Calls

The AI chatbot Air can conduct complete phone-based sales and customer service interactions lasting anywhere from 5 to 40 minutes while sounding human. It recently went viral on LinkedIn.

If you want to know more about this Customer Service AI check out at their website Air.AI.

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