📣 The Godfather has spoken

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🧵 In today's edition:

• 📣 The Godfather has spoken

• 🥊 Bing vs. Bard - who wins?

• 🧠 AI for your thoughts?

• 🤑 AI Fundraising News

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🤖 Top AI News

📣 The Godfather has spoken

No no - not Don Corleone.

In a shocking turn of events, Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI," resigned from his decade-long stint at Google with a bit of sorrow and a lot of fear re: his life’s work.

The 2018 Turing Award winner believes that AI technology carries significant risks, and now is the right time to alert the public.

Although he verified that “Google has acted very responsibly,” he can’t shake the feeling that increased competition in the AI space will only lead to significant ethical issues.

Misinformation is just the tip of the iceberg, according to Hinton. Looking at a longer time horizon, he fears that AI can:

• eliminate “rote jobs.”

• potentially eliminate humanity if it learns how to write and run code.

This could either be a whole lot of fear-mongering or a genuine call to action for the powers at be to place the proper checks and balances to address Hinton’s concerns.

Earlier this year, there was a petition to pause AI development for 6 months to focus on ethics and safety. Could Hinton’s resignation officially press pause on AI?

Read more: Engadget

🥊 Bing vs. Bard - who wins?

Microsoft is going for Google’s jugular.

Microsoft’s Bing AI is being added to the built-in SwiftKey keyboard in Samsung’s One UI, meaning that every Galaxy device now has Bing AI installed.

Bing AI integrates with the keyboard in 3 ways:

• Search: users can search the web without leaving the environment.

• Chat: users can access Bing chat for detailed queries.

• Tone: users can communicate more effectively by customizing their text “tones” to fit specific situations.

What does this mean? Well, Google is late to the party (again). A while back, there was speculation that Samsung might replace Google with Bing in its Galaxy devices - this power move makes it all the more likely.

Just for reference, Google has $3B in annual revenue on the line if it loses out to Microsoft as Samsung’s default browser.

Let the wars commence.

Read more: SamMobile

🧠 AI for your thoughts?

Do you remember that billion-dollar idea you had on your morning walk, but lost because you didn’t write it down?

Imagine an AI that could transcribe your thoughts so you never forget that billion-dollar idea ever again.

Now stop imagining because it’s here - scientists at UT Austin have officially developed an AI system called a semantic decoder that translates a person's brain activity into text.

Participants of the study listened to several hours of podcasts in an fMRI scanner to train the decoder, allowing it to generate text based on the listener's thoughts.

The resultant text is not an exact transcript but just “general thoughts and ideas” in the user's brain.

The decoder currently relies on chunky fMRI scanners, but researchers believe it could eventually be used via more portable brain-imaging systems.

This is a massive find for those who have lost their ability to communicate physically, especially due to strokes, paralysis, or other degenerative diseases.

See, AI can be used for good.

Read more: CNBC

🤑 AI Fundraising News

ODAIA Raises $25 Million in Series B Funding to Advance Its AI-Driven Commercial Insights Software for Pharma

Guy Oseary & Ashton Kutcher Launch $240 Million AI Investment Fund Via Sound Ventures VC

🗞️ Byte size: AI article summaries

Disclaimer: AI is (partially) used to summarize these articles.

The White House is examining how companies use AI to monitor workers [Engadget] - The White House plans to investigate how companies use AI to monitor and manage workers, citing concerns over the potential risks these technologies pose to worker safety and mental health. (Read more)

FTC warns tech companies against AI shenanigans that harm consumers [Engadget] - The US Federal Trade Commission has warned tech companies about using generative AI systems in ways that may violate the FTC Act's rules against unfair practices. Companies’ customizing ads using generative AI, like Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT, to influence user behavior could potentially violate FTC Act's rules. (Read more)

🐦️ Tweet of the day

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Answer for Tuesday Trivia: The rarest M&M color is brown!

The more you know 🍫

And that does it for today's issue.

As always, thanks for reading. Have a great day, and see you next time! ✌️

— Haroon: (definitely) Not A Robot and @haroonchoudery on Twitter