Will AI be the Smartphone Killer? 🫢

Ex-Apple employee looking to take his former company head on!

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Shane Duggan
July 10, 2023

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🤖 It’s time for Your AI News, Byte-Sized.

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I’d love to hear what you think this week, we’ve got some great stories:

  • An AI device that’s looking to take on the smartphone 🫢 

  • Inflection AI’s HUGE investment toward their new supercomputer 🤯 

  • Google’s updated their privacy policy for AI training data…? 🤔 

  • And much more…

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⚡ AI Entrepreneur Story Of The Week!

On this SOTW, we have an ex-Apple employee who’s coming back with his own startup to look to take his former company for a challenge.

This week, we have Imran Chaudhri and his AI startup Humane, who’s responsible for the 'AI Pin' that was unveiled at a Ted talk in April and had people stunned.

Imran, an ex-Apple employee for 20+ years, has been growing its team with Apple employees since 2018. Now ready to make their move, they believe the AI pin will be the smartphone killer.

The pin is a tiny, unnoticeable projector that sits on your clothing and provides an interface through any surface like a hand, or can respond through voice commands. It can even recognize information like food labels to help you log your day-to-day errands effortlessly.

At the moment, it can handle emails, language translation, and calendar management, with more to come! Will this be the smartphone killer?

👆 My #BuildInPublic Feature

These features just keep on getting more and more useful! This week, we have Tim Wong (@t31k__) and his project, TryOnClothesAI. And if you couldn’t guess what it does from the name, he’s got a short little demo that perfect showcases this small, but definitely widely-useful tool. Taking into account the growth of online shopping, we might have a winning tool on our hands!

🔨 Amazing AI Projects Worth Looking Into

Project #1: TheBloke’s open-source LLMs (@TheBlokeAI)

If you thought GPT and Llama were the only Large-Language Models (LLMs) out there, you’d be dead wrong. Open-Source models found on HuggingFace are becoming HUGE, and they’re wildly impressive. TheBloke is a renowned creator of such models, and they’ve been gaining tons of traction recently.

Project #2: InterviewerAI (@InterviewAITeam)

Ever needed help in screening the right employees for your interviews? Let AI do the heavy lifting and streamline your interview process with InterviewAI.

Project #3: FlutterFlow AI (@flutterflow)

You know that feeling when you want to build a new app but just never had the time to start the project from the ground up? Well, FlutterFlow can eliminate that and get your app up and running in Flutter in minutes!

🗞 Last Week’s AI News Roundup

The Headliner: Inflection AI builds $880,000,000 supercomputer

Or if you prefer it in GPU terms, that’s 22,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs (each goes for $40,000). If you remember them from last week, they’ve just bagged a $1.5B investment, and they’ve shown full intention to dedicate that toward improving their AI models like “Inflection 1”.

Japan pushes AI into their schools

Japan has started to prioritize familiarizing its students with AI with the goal of teaching them to be responsible users of the growing technology. Classes around the topic have already been created, and parents are even welcome to participate in order to spread awareness for the responsible use of AI.

Google to start collecting public data for AI training

If your privacy is something important to you, here’s a heads-up. Google has updated its privacy to allow them to collect any information posted publicly. It’s high time to be watchful of what you post online, and if you’d like to browse safely, it could be time to normalize incognito.

📚 The Byte-Sized Reading/Listening List

1. Talkshow: Why AI Matters And How To Deal With The Coming Change w/ Emad Mostaque | EP #52 (31 min)

2. Reading: Instead of banning AI, schools should use it to enhance learning (2 min)

Instead of banning AI, schools should use it to enhance learning | Letters

Letters: I am 13, so I know first-hand the efforts to combat ChatGPT, and the enormous potential of such technologies, writes Amedeo Bettauer

www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/09/instead-of-banning-ai-schools-should-use-it-to-enhance-learning

3. Reading: AI can't replace Mickey Mouse, says voice of Disney mascot (5 min)

AI can't replace Mickey Mouse, says voice of Disney mascot

BURBANK: Aw, gee! The technology driving artificial intelligence sure is swell, but it could never capture the essence of Mickey Mouse, according to the man who voices Disney's mascot.

www.channelnewsasia.com/world/artificial-intelligence-mickey-mouse-voice-replace-disney-hollywood-3616266

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