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Happy Tuesday, fellow humans. š
Hereās your Tuesday morning fun fact: There are only 4 words in the English language that end in ādous.ā In case youāre wondering, they are horrendous, tremendous, hazardous, and stupendous.
Wierdly, those are also the words my parents use to describe my early childhood.
Anyhoo, letās dive into itā¦
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š§µ In today's edition:
šøļø Text toā¦websites?
š° Chatbots stay hydrated
šÆ Rate your AI
š¤ AI Fundraising News
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š¤ Top AI News
šøļø Text toā¦websites?
A 2022 survey found that ~27% of small businesses donāt have a website.
This, along with lower web traffic, needlessly āadvancedā functionality, and increased software costs, are the top challenges SMBs face today with website creation.
To help solve this, Wix, a popular web builder, launched an AI Site Generator tool to create websites automatically.
The tool allows users to describe their intent and generate a website with text and images.
But what sets Wix apart from other AI website builders is their focus on streamlining and simplifying the process of building āback-end business functionality, infrastructure, payments capabilities and more for customersā websites.ā
Overall: Wix's CEO, Avishai Abrahami, emphasized that his tool aimed to promote AI's role in simplifying web building for small businesses, reducing complexity, and generating value for users.
Read more: TechCrunch
š° Chatbots stay hydrated
Chatbots consume about Ā½ a liter of water for every 25 questions you ask them.
ChatGPT alone has 100M users, and if theyāre anything like meā¦ damn, thatās a lot of water.
Why is this important: AI models have a significant impact on the environment due to their water usage and carbon emissions.
Professor Dr. YĆ¼ksel Ardalı of Ondokuz Mayıs, University Department of Environmental Engineering, stated that in addition to the water usage, the type of power supply used to run data centers affects the amount of emissions produced.
According to Scientific American, GPT-3, which has 175 billion parameters, āconsumed 1,287-megawatt hours of electricity and generated 552 tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of 123 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year.ā
Mind you; this was just to get the model ready to launch - with no consumer usage.
Wild.
The professor urges less AI use, despite their convenience - but that seems like a pipe dream for now.
Just another thing for climate activists and tech builders to think about now.
Read more: Hurriyet Daily
šÆ Rate your AI
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If AI chatbots have taught us one thing so far, itās that they are decent at best, but unreliable and inappropriate at worst.
A survey found that 82% of parents wanted a rating system for new AI products, and 77% were interested in using AI tools to help their children learn but were unsure which ones were reliable.
To help implement this, Common Sense Media, a nonprofit dedicated to digital citizenship and providing media ratings for parents, is adding AI technology products to its ratings and reviews system.
The new system will assess AI products for suitability for children and whether they apply "responsible AI practices."
It will also aim to inform forthcoming legislative and regulatory efforts around online safety for minors.
Soā¦ hereās a question for you:
How would you rate Snapchat's My AI bot? |
Read more: TechCrunch
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š¤ AI Fundraising News
Intel backs Figureās Humanoid robot to the tune of $9 million
Runway raises $27M in Series A funding to make financial planning more accessible and intelligent.
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šļø AI Quick-Bytes
What else is going on?
Bifrost is the first design to code product that actually works. Itās great for all stages of development:
Creating components for the first time
Generating any screen from Figma right in your code editor
Updating components youāve already written with new design changes
Check out the official announcement here!
US SEC is developing rules on AI āconflicts of interest.ā
UN Security Council to hold first talks on AI risks.
Artificial intelligence can detect 'sextortion' before it happens and help the FBI.
Israel deploys killer AI systems for military operations; know the dangers AI warfare poses.
Santa Monica tests AI cameras for parking tickets.
The Creator's New Trailer Puts Humanity at the Heart of the Robot Revolution.
MLCommons launches a new platform to benchmark AI medical models.
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š¦ļø Tweet of the day
This is a pretty cool concept.
/Stacks
What if we re-imagined how Midjourney works?
Jeff Levin has done just that. He has done a really cool product/project with Midjourney showcasing /Stacks
Check out video and links in thread
ā Linus (āį“ā) (@LinusEkenstam)
11:18 PM ā¢ Jul 17, 2023
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