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AI Energy Consumption: An Emerging Global Challenge 💡

This news is not a science fiction script, but it surely has more than one robot rethinking its life choices. It turns out that a recent study by Alex de Vries, founder of Digiconomist, has sounded the alarm regarding AI's high energy consumption.

Specifically, the research indicates that if we continue to encourage the development and use of AI tools as if they were the latest Primark collection, we will soon surpass the annual energy consumption of countries like Argentina and Sweden. This is because the processes of training and inferring models are not only devouring energy like a teenager does french fries, but the energy expenditure is increasing by 50% each year. Yes, it's not a typo, 50% annually!

🤖 Training AI models? It seems more like we're training them for the next Olympic marathon of energy consumption!

Considering that tech companies allocate between 7 and 10% of their total budget to AI (and up to 4.5% just in training models), it's easy to imagine how a future full of machine learning and smart bots could light up our lives (literally).

There's no question that AI has the potential to change the way we live and work for the better. But as Vries himself says, "AI is energy-intensive, so we don't want to put it in all kinds of things where we really don't need it." Essentially, like any crisis, we can take it as an opportunity to be alert, take action, and make the necessary adjustments.

Character.AI Launches Group Chats with AI 💬

Character.AI, the startup backed by a16z and founded by former Google AI researchers. Yes, it seems our group chats will have a new (and very smart) guest, or should I say… guests.

Character.AI's new feature is Group Chat. But in this case, the group can include several AI characters with different personalities to interact with your friends, in real time. Imagine for a moment discussing your fresh ideas with Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla, and Stephen Hawking in a chat group. Too surreal? Well, with Character.AI, it's possible. Or, if mythology is more your thing, you can create a group chat with Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon.

🤖 It seems that now even gods and famous scientists have their place in the world of emojis.

But the idea goes beyond just narrative and entertainment. The possibilities are endless. You can focus on a topic like travel, gaming, reading clubs, or role-playing games, and have an AI companion that facilitates and broadens the conversations. But it's worth mentioning, Character.AI is not the only one experimenting with this. Snapchat and Meta have also introduced AI chatbots into their applications.

The new group chat feature won't be free. It will be made available to c.ai+ subscribers for $9.99 per month before it's rolled out to the general public.

Adobe and Canva Double Down on Innovation with Generative AI 🖌️

Adobe and Canva are taking the design magic wand to a new level. Thanks to the magic of generative artificial intelligence, these leading companies have introduced brilliant and powerful tools that promise to revolutionize the audiovisual production market. Hold on tight, because Adobe's Project Stardust and Canva's Magic Studio are about to take off.

Eager to stand out at this year's Adobe Max event, Adobe previewed some features of its new photo editing asset, Project Stardust. This wonderful project makes it easy to modify and remove individual elements within an image, automatically selected. Remember the "Contextual Taskbar"? Well, these smart folks at Adobe have included a similar function to the one that debuted in Photoshop earlier this year, providing action suggestions to users to make their design processes more fluid and efficient.

🧙 It seems Adobe and Canva are saying “Expelliarmus” to manual editing and “Accio” to AI!

Following suit, Canva is shining with its new suite, Magic Studio. This package includes 10 amazing AI-based editing tools that cover a wide range of formats. Want to turn a presentation into an executive summary or create a blog entry from ideas on a digital whiteboard? Magic Switch has your back. Want to generate images and videos from text? Try Magic Media and Magic Morph.

Thus, with a final thrust, Canva has added Canva Shield: a collection of security, privacy, and protection controls for businesses and organizations. Because, of course, what would all this power be without a bit of responsibility? And although these new tools might seem like sophisticated spells, the good news is that in this magical world of design, we are all apprentices, and at the end of the day, we are all wizards.

AI Bites 🍪

UK races to agree statement on AI risks with global leaders. Downing Street officials find themselves in a race against time to finalise an agreed communique from global leaders concerning the escalating concerns surrounding artificial intelligence.

Apple designs a lighter Vision Pro to avoid neck strain. While the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality glasses will go on sale in early 2024, plans for the next-generation model are already underway.

From concept to patent: 4 key steps for AI entrepreneurs. To maximize your chances of getting the patent filing process right, here are four tips that will help protect your work so you can capitalize on it.

Watch this, thank me later... 👀

If you think you can make Bing's AI say something it shouldn't, Microsoft is willing to pay you between $2K and $15k for finding vulnerabilities in Bing AI products.

To be eligible for payout, user must inform Microsoft of a previously unknown bug and have outlined their criteria online, you must also be able to show the bug on video or in writing 👇