Weekly AI - 16 Sept 2023
Greetings! Welcome to your weekly roundup of the most exciting AI news. This week we have developments across healthcare, accessibility, customer service, and the arts.
Leading our newsletter is ProteinQure's promising new "smart" breast cancer drug that reduced tumors in animal studies without the typical chemotherapy side effects. This offers hope for more effective and safer cancer treatments.
We also highlight Salesforce's launch of Einstein Copilot, embedding conversational AI across its platform to provide users helpful information through natural language interactions.
Finally, don't miss Stability AI's new AI music generator, which impresses with coherent, musical 90-second tracks in different genres. While not perfect, it signals an exciting push into generative audio.
Dive in for these stories and more intriguing AI updates that stood out over the past week. As always, let me know any feedback on how we can improve this newsletter for you. Enjoy!
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ProteinQure's Recent Breakthrough: A 'Smart' Breast Cancer Drug
ProteinQure has recently developed a new and promising drug against triple negative breast cancer, using artificial intelligence. According to a recent animal study, this drug significantly reduces tumor growth without causing the typical side effects of chemotherapy. This breakthrough offers hope for more effective and safer treatments in the future.
Microsoft will be liable for Copilot AI copyright violations
Microsoft says it will take legal responsibility if Copilot AI infringes copyright law. This aims to shield commercial users from potential lawsuits.
Artificial Intelligence Leaders to Watch in 2023
Artificial intelligence continues to reshape our world, from healthcare to transportation to the arts. This list highlights some of the individuals who are leading the way in developing beneficial AI applications and setting policies that aim to prevent harms.
Salesforce Einstein Copilot: Conversational AI Across The Platform
Salesforce has introduced Einstein Copilot, a new conversational AI assistant embedded across its platform. The tool allows users to ask questions in natural language to get help and information while working. Einstein Copilot leverages Salesforce's customer data to provide more accurate responses and reduce hallucinations. Its launch highlights Salesforce's commitment to integrating AI across its products.
Thousands of Free Open Audiobooks Powered by Project Gutenberg, Microsoft, and MIT
Thousands of open audiobooks have been created using new text-to-speech technology on Project Gutenberg’s open ebook collection. This collaboration aims to increase accessibility to literature.
OpenAI admits AI writing detectors don't work
OpenAI has confirmed that current AI writing detectors are unable to reliably distinguish AI-generated text from human writing. The company stated that these detectors often falsely flag human writing as AI-generated.
HelpKit AI Launches to Revolutionize Customer Service with AI-Powered Chatbots
HelpKit AI allows anyone to turn their Notion knowledge base into an AI-powered chatbot in minutes. Customers get quick answers to questions, and support teams save time on repetitive requests.
Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to help customers customize their AI
Einstein Copilot Studio allows customers to add custom prompts, build new skills, and integrate their own or third-party models, giving them more control over the AI to tailor it to their specific needs.
Hugging Face launches speech-to-text leaderboard ranking speech recognition models
Hugging Face has launched a speech-to-text leaderboard that ranks and evaluates speech recognition models available on its platform. The current top performers are NVIDIA FastConformer and OpenAI Whisper, with an emphasis on English speech recognition. Multilingual evaluation will be included in future updates.
Stability AI's new AI music generator to shake up the industry
Stability AI, the creators of Stable Diffusion, have just released Stable Audio - an AI system that can generate high-quality music. This launch signals Stability's push into generative audio and poses a challenge to existing players. The model can produce coherent 90-second tracks in different genres with impressive musicality. While not perfect, it shows promise to disrupt how music is made.
Before we go, I wanted to share my latest article on my personal blog about BlueSky Social, a decentralized social networking protocol and service started in 2019 by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
BlueSky Social – A Sneak Peek at the Future of Social Media
Learn about BlueSky Social, the decentralized and ethical Twitter alternative started by Jack Dorsey as a new vision for social media.
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