AI is Changing the Art World
- Botto is an AI bot that creates interesting and unique art. It combines different elements like shapes, colors, textures, and more.
- Botto’s artworks include paintings, sculptures, photos, and digital art. They sell for high prices at auctions around the world. Since 2018, they’ve sold over $100 million worth of art.
- Botto donates some of its earnings to charity, including organizations that support art, education, and research.
- Botto works together with human artists, which allows for a combination of AI art and human art.
Will There Be an End to Hunger?
Three main trends in advanced agriculture could help to end world hunger by 2050, despite the challenges of climate change and a growing population:
- New Breeding Techniques (NBTs): These use gene editing to create crops that are more resistant and produce more food.
- Precision Agriculture: This combines technologies like drones, self-driving tractors, and AI systems to monitor and manage crops in the best way possible.
- Biological Crops: These use natural products to protect and encourage growth, instead of synthetic chemicals.
OpenAI’s Next Mission: Extending Life
- OpenAI has revealed its first model designed for biological research, GPT-4b micro. It’s working on a very specific task: using special proteins to turn human skin cells back into younger-looking stem cells.
- A few years ago, OpenAI partnered with a startup called Retro Biosciences, and Sam Altman gave them $180 million. He believes that with AI, we can extend human life expectancy by 10 years.
- The GPT-4b micro model has suggested two redesigned proteins that were 50 times more effective than what researchers had come up with before.
Will We Be Able to End Death?
- In 1953, the first three babies were born using sperm that had been frozen. Scientists want to use cryopreservation (freezing) technology to freeze and store people.
- In 1967, psychology professor James Bedford became the first person to have his body frozen cryogenically. Since then, it’s estimated that about 500 people have followed suit.
- The idea is to freeze people after they die from an incurable disease, and then revive them in the future when a cure is found.
- A new study has successfully frozen and thawed rat kidneys and transplanted them. This development could help with freezing whole organs to address the shortage of organ donations and save thousands of lives each year.
- In the next decade, there is expected to be progress in preserving small animals, and AI may help in developing cryopreservation technology and improving the freezing processes.
Report on the Use of AI in Organizations
A report published by Section presents interesting conclusions about how ready organizations and employees are to use AI.
- 93% of organizations allow employees to use AI.
- Most employees who received training on AI tools did not improve their productivity, and only 9% of those who know how to use AI properly manage to save time.
- 43% of employees use AI in organizations that prohibit its use.
- 23% of employees are excited about using AI in their roles, while 43% are afraid of losing their jobs because of the introduction of AI into the organization.
AI Will Bring Back the Mammoths
- The startup Colossal Biosciences has raised $200 million to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian wolf, and the dodo bird.
- The company combines artificial intelligence, biology, and genetic engineering. Using advanced CRISPR technology, it has mapped the mammoth’s genome and plans to engineer Asian elephants with mammoth genes and change them so that they are adapted to a colder climate.
The AGI Lab
- Francois Schoulet, a former AI researcher at Google DeepMind, has founded a new research lab called DeepMind.
- He believes that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is the future, and its goal is to research and develop advanced AI technologies.
- Schoulet’s DeepMind will focus on developing generative AI models, combining various AI techniques, including deep learning, machine learning, and natural language processing, that will be capable of performing a wide range of tasks, including solving complex problems.
- He aims to make the technology more efficient and flexible, capable of learning, adapting to the changing environment, and evolving over time. The lab will collaborate with organizations, companies, and governments to promote the use of AGI and make the technology more accessible.
Scheduling and Task Execution in ChatGPT
- About two weeks ago, OpenAI released a new model in beta that allows for the management and scheduling of tasks within ChatGPT through a feature called Tasks.
- From now on, it is possible to create a kind of AI agent that will perform the tasks automatically, and at the end, it will also send an email.
- This model is open to paying subscribers only.
- In addition, OpenAI released the Operator to Pro subscribers ($200 per month) – an AI agent that performs various actions automatically.
AI Tarot Trend
- A new trend is developing in the field of artificial intelligence, offering a new approach to reading tarot cards.
- There are AI-based tools that allow users to read tarot cards online.
- These tools use artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze the tarot cards, interpret their meaning, and offer insights into life, relationships, career, and more.
Samsung’s Vision AI
- Samsung has announced “Vision AI” technology in its smart TV models.
- One of the new features that will be added is “Press to Search” – which will allow you to click on programs and movies that are displayed on the TV screen, and the AI will provide information about actors, locations, or objects.
- Another feature that will be added is “Real-Time Translation” that will automatically translate subtitles in real time, so you can watch programs and movies in other languages.
AI-Based Insurance Against Fires
- An innovative insurance company called Stand Insurance uses AI technologies to improve fire insurance processes.
- The use of AI technologies helps to assess risks, predict the spread of fires, and provide more effective insurance coverage.
- Stand Insurance uses advanced simulations from the field of aviation and space, creates a “digital twin” of the house and the land, simulates fire behavior, and suggests improvements to increase the house’s resistance to fires.
News on the Cutting Edge
- LinkedIn is launching two new AI features: a tool called “Jobs Match,” which guides users on which positions they should apply for, and a new AI agent that helps recruiters scan a full resume to find candidates with a good fit for the position.
- Microsoft has relaunched its free Copilot for businesses to get them used to using it, in order to persuade them to pay $30 per month per user for the full Microsoft 365 Copilot service. Copilot also allows you to create AI agents to perform a variety of tasks automatically. The use of agents requires an additional payment according to the amount of use.
- Luma AI has released a new video model – Ray2, with significant improvements compared to its previous model. Ray2 can create new videos in seconds, with real movements.
- Freepik, an AI tool for editing images and videos, allows users to add sound when creating videos. Well, it was about time that AI would also create suitable sound.
- Meta has developed a new AI model called SeamlessM4T that can translate speech into more than 100 languages. SeamlessM4T has 23% more accurate translations than the leading existing models.
- Researchers are building an AI system that will be able to understand the languages in which animals communicate with each other. This could help us learn more about the natural world. The AI system, called NatureLM, can already identify different species of animals, their age, and if they sound distressed.
- Bionic Breakthrough: Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a bionic hand that uses a brain-computer interface to help people living with paralysis regain their sense of touch.
- New research reveals that chatbots, including OpenAI’s GPT-4, are still struggling to answer complex questions related to history. They can provide general answers on historical topics but struggle to provide accurate and detailed answers to specific questions.
- President Donald Trump is lifting restrictions on AI. He started by revoking Biden’s order that required AI companies to check if their models were safe to protect everyone. Trump claims that this is slowing down innovation, and he prefers to promote groundbreaking developments.
- Claude allows you to get accurate quotes from a source uploaded to it. Soon it will also be possible to give it voice instructions.
- The British government has announced a comprehensive plan to make the country a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, with a significant investment in research and development.
- Perplexity has launched a smart AI assistant that supports 15 languages and is available for Android devices. It can perform various tasks such as setting reminders, ordering a place in a restaurant, searching for songs. It can also use the device’s camera to see what appears on your screen.
- ByteDance has invested billions of dollars in developing advanced generative AI models. It has developed an AI Reasoning model called DeepSeek-R1 that outperforms OpenAI’s o-1 model. Its goal is to make interaction with AI more efficient, more