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Ok, down to business.

News Headlines

• EU AI Act Passed 🛂

• An AI Stat Line Breakdown 📊

• Meta’s New Speech Model 🎤

• Introducing the OpenAI App Store 😱

• Amazon n’ AI 😂

Bodacious AI Stuff

• QR Codes, But Cool? - Isn’t this way cooler than a bunch of black pixels in a random pattern? I can see a lot of potential for these to become a new format for visual ads. You can make your own QR codes similar to these here (scan with Code Scanner on ios).

  

   

• BodyScan - Snap a couple pics of yourself and get AI to draft you up an personalized workout regiment tailored to your body. I also just thought it was funny how the website creator used AI generated images for the models. It’s reassuring to know I can still tell the difference (for now 😱).

  

✈️ An AI Flyby for the Week ✈️

EU AI Act Passed 🛂

Yeah so in case you haven’t noticed, the European Union really likes to regulate stuff. First is was big tech and now they’ve set their sights on AI with their most recently passed EU AI Act.

The proposed legislation, which is expected to come into effect in a few years, aims to shield consumers from potential threats posed by AI, including surveillance, discrimination, and misinformation. However, it also might rain on some companies' parades, such as OpenAI, which could consider pulling out from Europe due to the legislation's restrictions.

Here are some key aspects of the EU AI Act:

1. It introduces bans on certain AI applications deemed unacceptable, such as emotion-recognition AI in policing, schools, and workplaces, real-time biometrics and predictive policing in public spaces, and social scoring by public agencies.

2. It establishes restrictions on high-risk technologies. For instance, generative AI will face new regulations and a ban on the use of copyrighted material in training sets, such as those used by large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4.

3. It escalates the category of recommendation algorithms on social media to "high risk," which means these systems will be subject to more scrutiny.

It seems that the EU is in a sprint to outpace the US, China, or Japan in the race to regulate AI. This move positions the EU as a front-runner in tech regulation, potentially setting the standard for global practices.

While the EU is donning its superhero cape to protect the world from AI risks, there are concerns that the new regulations might stifle innovation in the region. Fines for non-compliance could reach up to €20,000,000 or 4% of the company's revenue per infringement, which could make some companies think twice about their open source strategies or API offerings.

As of now, it appears that none of the top 10 AI language models meet the requirements outlined in the upcoming AI Act guidelines. So, the clock is ticking for AI companies to either shape up or ship out. If AI models decide to withdraw from the EU, this could further diminish the EUs chances of staying on top of AI in the coming years.

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Psst — if any of the links to articles I attach are paywalled or blocked apparently the GPT-4 browsing extension can bypass that pretty easily. But you didn’t hear that from me.🤐

An AI Stat Line Breakdown 📊 

I thought it might be helpful to use this section to do a big picture AI breakdown backed up with some good old statistics. Pulling out some of these AI stats at the dinner table is bound to get you some of that respect you deserve 😤.

1) The AI market is saddling up for a wild ride, expected to grow at an annual rate of 37.3% from 2023 to 2030​ [src].

2) It's projected to buff up the US GDP by a whopping 21% by 2030​ [src]

3) Surprisingly, in terms of domestic market penetration, 42% of US adults have never heard of ChatGPT and it is primarily being used by younger generations [src].

4) Over 60% of companies are betting on AI to supercharge their productivity​, and a quarter are looking to AI to fill in labor shortages. Bottom line is you’re going to have to work harder if you want that employee of the month plaque [src].

5) In the global AI race, China seems to be leading the pack, with 58% of companies deploying AI. Meanwhile, our very own US of A seems to still be warming up, with only 25% of companies currently using AI [src]. C’mon now let’s pump up those numbers.

6) But what about the jobs, you ask? Well, buckle up, because AI and other technologies could create up to a whopping 97 million new jobs! Thank god cause I’ll definitely be needing one of those [src].

Meta’s New Speech Model 🎤

So, Meta made a new AI model. No, surprise there. They are quite prolific when it comes to doing that.

The zinger is that their model, Voicebox, a voice emulation model, is so good that they don’t want to make it public for fear of it being misused.

Basically, imagine grandparent ransom scams so convincing that we can’t even blame them for sending the money anymore because it sounds exactly like little Jimmy! Or, as a more serious example, an indistinguishable voice recording of a world leader making threats against another nation. The list of potential misuses grows every larger the more you think, so I can understand why Meta made the choice not to open source this particular model. But, we’ll still go over some of its features just for fun.

Standout features:

• actually good background noise removal (cough, cough Zoom) and content editing

• convert your speech to different languages while maintaining your tone and cadence! Big one! Youtube acquired an entire startup just to do this, so that they could start dubbing their video content.

• 20x faster than current models 🫨

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OpenAI APP Store? 😱

So OpenAI has a phone app.

They have plugins.

What’s the next step then?

Apparently, it might be an AI app store.

Picture this: AI models that can sniff out financial fraud or answer business queries could be up for grabs for all businesses, almost like buying a fancy new gadget from an online store​. Pretty cool, no?

OpenAI could also get into the customized AI chatbot game and probably dominate the whole market by offering that kind of service on their app store, along with a whole host of other models and services.

Companies like KhanAcademy and Aquant are reportedly eager to host their AI models on the store. We also just saw a round of investments from OpenAI’s $175 million investment funds and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the companies are being primed for acquisition to be offered up on this app store.

Just think about the effect the App Store had on the iPhone ecosystem. People are speculating we could be approaching a similar moment for AI.

Oh snap.

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Amazon n’ AI 😂

Every time you look away to all the other shiny stuff happening with AI, you can know with relative certainty, that Amazon is up to something.

As we speak, Amazon is gunning to be the premier AI model marketplace, pitting them against OpenAI if they decide to go ahead with their AI App Store.

Amazon already offers to dozens of foundational models from Stability, Falcon, and Anthropic via its “SageMaker JumpStart” marketplace. Through Bedrock, clients have the option to:

1. Pick ‘n choose from the best AI models.

2. Optimize them using your private data and IP.

3. Search your data, receive decision-making help, automate issues.

Many industries with more unstructured data then they know what to do this are eyeing Amazon’s offer and are ready to bite.

But, what I want to get across is that Amazon is silently building up the infrastructure for enterprises to build their own AI solutions using these models. They are also providing the flexibility to let companies mix and match and combine models as needed, which is pretty unique as things are.

And that’s not all. There is also some buzz that Amazon could be starting their own book-making arm, using generative AI to cowrite and publish their own books! I know I said I would be fine reading books written by AI, but I might on that some more.

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