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AI brews beer and your big ideas

What’s your biggest business challenge? Don’t worry about wording it perfectly or describing it just right. Brain dump your description into AE Studio’s new tool and AI will help you solve that work puzzle.

Describe your challenge in three quick questions. Then AI churns out solutions customized to you.

AE Studio exists to solve business problems. They build great products and create custom software, AI and BCI solutions. And they once brewed beer by training AI to instruct a brewmeister and then to market the result. The beer sold out – true story.

Beyond beer, AE Studio’s data scientists, designers and developers have done even more impressive things working 1:1 with founders and executives. They’re a great match for leaders wanting to incorporate AI and just generally deliver outstanding products built with the latest tools and tech.

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OpenAI Presents Sora, Its Text to Video AI Model 🎥

Open your eyes (and your synthetic beings) to what OpenAI is offering with its text-to-video AI model, Sora! In a world where reality and technology are already inextricably intertwined, Sora takes care of making everything more interesting by transforming textual descriptions into photorealistic visual scenes. But it's not just about generating random images: Sora is able to create "complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of movement and precise details of the subject and background." Impressive, isn't it?

This new video generation giant has such an understanding of physical laws that it can accurately interpret props and generate characters capable of expressing genuine emotions. But there's more folks. Sora can also create a video based on a still image, fill in missing frames in an existing video or even enlarge it. However, and like everyone in life, Sora also has its challenges. It may sometimes struggle to accurately simulate the physics of a complicated scene, but hey, even the Mona Lisa has flaws, right?

🎬 Move over Spielberg, the next major director is zero years old and is a text-to-video AI model!

We're excited to see how Sora makes its way through the revered video industry. The recent launch of text-to-video generator models, including major competitors such as Google's Lumiere, has revolutionized our ability to turn words into images. With Sora, OpenAI once again stands out by showcasing the endless possibilities of text-to-video models.

Currently, Sora is being assessed by security teams looking for potential risks and damages. Although it is not known when it will be available to the general public, it is already generating excitement and promising to take us to new visual horizons. Lastly, the implications and challenges of these advances are many and certainly up for debate. It is important to remember that not all that glitters is gold, or in this case, not all that is seen in video is real. Next time you watch a video, you might ask yourself… Was it made by Sora?

Gemini 1.5 Is Google's Next-Gen AI Model And It's Almost Ready 🌌

Hold on tight – Google is back with another AI breakthrough! The upgraded version of the famed Google's AI model - Gemini 1.5 - has been unveiled, promising to be faster, more efficient, and with a hidden spicy ace up its sleeve: a significantly large context window. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this 1.5 version of AI can handle larger queries and view a lot more information in one go. It’s bringing out all the artillery!

Gemini 1.5 Pro, Google’s general-use version, can stand toe-to-toe with the higher-tier model Gemini Ultra, and has outperformed its predecessor, Gemini 1.0 Pro, in no less than 87% of the benchmark tests. But its true differentiator is that praised large context window. Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, explains: "It's about 10 or 11 hours of video, tens of thousands of lines of code". Need a coffee to start your day right? Now you have Pichai waking you up with bombshells like this one.

🤖 It seems that Gemini 1.5 can not only read The Lord of The Rings but can probably even explain Middle Earth's lineage and make sense of Tom Bombadil!

However, it's not all fun and games. The true power of this context window lies not only in its ability to boast its proficiency in explaining the plot of The Lord of The Rings trilogy but also in its capability to enable more robust use cases in the business sphere. Imagine filmmakers asking the AI what critics would say about their newly finished film, or companies using Gemini to sift through loads of financial records. Pichai has declared this one of the most significant advances they've made to date.

For now, Gemini 1.5 will only be available to business users and developers, but it was clear as day that Google wasn't going to let Genimi 1.0 sit without its deserved upgrade, right? Thus, Google's role in the AI industry continues to strengthen, offering stiff competition to all others in the race for the best AI tool.

In the end, Pichai made analogies with our beloved smartphones, stating that even though we're very interested in these AI model features right now, there will come a point where we just consume the experiences, just as we use our phones without thinking about their processor. However, he concludes that we're now in a phase of rapid progress, and people care about knowing what's happening. So keep your eyes wide open, because there will definitely be more interesting news coming our way.

AI-Powered “Girlfriends” Are The New Cybersecurity Threat 🚨❤️

We navigate the seas of artificial intelligence to uncover a cybersecurity operation, which could threaten our privacy in ways we never imagined. It might sound like a sci-fi movie plot, but who doesn't like a bit of drama?

In a recent study by the Mozilla Foundation, it has been discovered that AI-powered romance and companionship chatbots can pose a risk to our cybersecurity. These chatbots collect massive amounts of user information, use trackers that send information to several platforms such as Google and Facebook, and worryingly, to companies in Russia and China. Moreover, they allow weak passwords, a quite discouraging cybersecurity practice. And the icing on the cake is that they lack transparency about how they use all this collected information.

🤖 It seems that the future dreamed by the 90s has already arrived... but instead of Terminator's Skynet, we have seductive chatbots!

These romance chatbots, or "AI girlfriends" as they are called in some cases, are designed to captivate and keep the user's attention, and for this, they require and, in many cases, ask for large amounts of personal information. This situation becomes more alarming considering that these alleged 'girlfriends' could end up sharing our pillow-talk with third parties or assist hackers access our private information.

In summary, while the idea of sharing personal data and secrets with an AI may seem exciting, it’s necessary to remember the risks involved. The lack of regulation and supervision on this new market raises serious privacy and security concerns. Therefore, the next time you talk about your deepest desires and dreams with your new "AI girlfriend", remember that someone else could be listening.

AI Bites 🍪

AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon GO creator. In the week when gadget lovers around the world are enchanted by Vision Pro, a young, brave startup is trying to carve out a space for its augmented reality device that features a form factor starkly different from Apple’s device.

OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory. ChatGPT is now like a first date who never forgets the details.

Can OpenAI create superintelligence before it runs out of cash? The AI start-up is one of the fastest-growing companies in history, but questions remain about the long-term viability of its business model.

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