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Handy AI: Weekly Update May 12

AI advancements during this week.

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Jake Handy
May 12, 2023

 

This week — Google doubles down on AI, Warren Buffet is afraid, and Wendy’s wants to accelerate the extinction of human fast food workers.

what to know for now

  • 🪧 Google goes all in on AI. At Google’s annual I/O event, the focus on AI was clear. Included in the announcements were PaLM 2 (placing Google’s generative AI closer to OpenAI’s), information on their next model named Gemini, an impressive AI music generator called MusicLM, and others. [Read more]

  • 🗣️ Anthropic’s Claude now has a context window of 100k. This larger context window (a huge jump from their previous 9k) will allow for processing of larger information and longer conversations. [Read more]

  • 🖼️ Meta’s ImageBind model impresses. The new model combines various “senses” (aka modalities) in a very human-manner, enabling complicated image and spatial understanding. [Read more]

what to know for later

  • 👴🏼 Warren Buffet is concerned about AI. Controversially comparing AI to an atom bomb, Buffet expressed his fears over the rapid rise of AI technologies. [Read more]

  • 📰 Meta moves forward on AI-focused advertising solutions. The new platform, AI Sandbox, allows advertisers to utilize generative AI for ad creation. [Read more]

  • 📽️ Humane’s projected AI device is… interesting. A new recording of Humane’s TED talk shows off the device, which projects information from your pocket to your hand and claims to be powered primarily by AI. [Read more]

  • 🏢 IBM announces their enterprise AI and data platform. Called WatsonX, the platform continues IBM’s regular positioning on large-scale enterprise solutions. This time, for AI. [Read more]

  • 🍔 Wendy’s begins testing AI replacement for workers. They claim they’ll employ AI agents for drive-throughs in the near future, allowing customers to order with zero human involvement. [Read more]

  • 🧸 OpenAI expands their image generation to 3D models. An experimental project (called Shap-E) from OpenAI allows users to generate 3D models from text input. [Read more]

 


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Jake Handy is a product manager, AI code wrangler, and Classical violinist. His intention with the Handy AI newsletter is to enable advantageous AI usage for all, ensuring no one gets left behind and everyone benefits from the power of this emerging technology.