💡 Amazon's Palm Reading AI

Plus: Everyone will have AI assistants

September 06, 2023

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Hey Edge Family, good morning! We like to keep things short and sweet at The Edge, so you can get back to your busy life!

Here’s The Breakdown:

💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge
🚨 𝟚 AI Updates: Amazon Palm Reading & Everyone = AI
💻 𝟙 Practical Use of AI: Unknown opportunities for growth

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💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge

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🚨 Breaking AI News 🚨

🤖 AI helped trained Amazon’s One to read your palm

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The Edge: Amazon One uses palm biometrics for contactless transactions, but high accuracy requires lots of palm image data.

Amazon used generative AI to create millions of synthetic palm images. The synthetic data reflects subtle hand variations like illumination and poses.
Amazon One is being rolled out to more than 500 Whole Foods Market stores.
The system can also detect fake hands and reject them. With a trial of 3 million hands and recording a “99.9999%” accuracy. Watch the demo video here.

Is AI going to improve your shopping experience?

🌅 DeepMind Founder Says Everyone Will Have AI Assistant in Next 5 Years

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The Edge: DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman predicts everyone will have personal AI assistants within 5 years as the technology becomes cheaper.

He believes AI will intimately know users, understand their history, act as coaches and companions, and become their AI agent.
Suleyman envisions the AIs evolving into a "chief of staff" role, helping users process information and make decisions.
Within years, personal AI could move beyond assistance to augmenting users' abilities in all facets of life.

🔎Extra Insights🔍

📉 Paul Graham complains of rise in web content because of AI

Co-founder of Y Combinator Paul Graham, voiced concerns on X about the quality of online material being lowered and muddied by the growing amount of AI-generated content. (Full article here)

📹 Zoom Launches AI Chatbot for Meetings

Zoom will launch a ChatGPT-style AI companion for video calls in 2024, aiming to boost productivity. (Full article here)

🇺🇸 50 States Fight AI Child Abuse

All 50 state attorneys general are urging Congress to study how AI can exploit children and strengthen laws against it. In a bipartisan letter, they call for an expert panel on AI's dangers, and expanding restrictions on child sexual abuse material to cover AI images. (Full article here)

💻 Real Life Use Cases

Chat GPT Prompt: Unknown opportunities for growth

Use this ChatGPT prompt to come up with ideas you never thought of before.

🔏 Copy and paste the prompt below ⏬ (Credit)

Analyze [industry] and give me the opportunities for growth that our [Industry]'s competitors are not taking advantage of.

Industry = [Insert here]

Here’s a link to the results ⬇️

ChatGPT

chat.openai.com/share/24816094-7ce6-4b61-b60a-04d7771960e3

Daily Definition

AI Agent

An AI Agent refers to a program or system that can autonomously make decisions and take actions based on its environment to achieve specific objectives or tasks. Picture it as a virtual entity that "senses" its surroundings, "thinks" or processes this information, and then "acts" accordingly “Your AI assistant.” The goal of an AI agent is often to maximize certain outcomes or rewards through its actions, learning over time to improve its decision-making.

🔮 AI Inspiration

Which picture is AI generated?

(Select one)

Find the answer here

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