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Here’s The Breakdown:
💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge
🚨 𝟚 AI Updates: Introducing LK-99 & Meta chatbot with personas
💻 𝟙 Practical Use of AI: Chromatic waves
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💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge
Julius: AI powered data analytics
Video Highlight: Summarize and take notes from Youtube videos
Praxy Lab: Personal tutor and productivity tool for students
🚨 Breaking AI News
A team of physicists from institutions in South Korea has made the exciting but controversial claim that they have created a room-temperature superconductor material.
The research papers report that LK-99 exhibits the key factors of superconductivity: near zero electrical resistance and the Meissner effect. Normal materials don't react at all to magnets. But LK-99 was pushed up and started floating just above the magnet.
This is called the Meissner effect, and it's another defining property of superconductors. So in both tests, LK-99 acted just like a superconductor should - it let electricity flow freely and it floated over magnets.
To learn about potential use cases for LK-99, read this great Tweet.
Meta is developing an AI powered chatbot featuring different personalities in an effort to boost declining user engagement across its platforms. It can take the form of famous people like Abraham Lincoln and Drake or or fictional characters like a skating coach.
The chatbots could launch as early as September and are a direct effort to compete with rivals like TikTok and capitalize on the hype around AI.
Meta’s chatbots process user data to better target content and ads, but this is outraging some customers, who want more privacy controls. Meta has not been thriving in this AI boom; they seem to be falling behind Google, Microsoft, and of course Open AI.
What are your thoughts? Is meta falling behind in the AI Race?
🔎Extra Insights🔍
👩🏻🦳 AI Lightens Asian Womans Headshot sparks controversy
MIT grad Rona Wang asked an AI photo editor to make her LinkedIn photo more "professional". Instead, it lightened her skin, essentially whitewashing her. This went viral, prompting the CEO to deflect blame. Wang said it revealed racial bias in AI. She won't use AI editors until they improve. The incident shows how rushed AI implementation leads to racism, even as companies ignore bias. (Full article here)
👱♀️ Create an AI Girlfriend
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz released DIY instructions for developers to build AI chatbot companions, aiming to mainstream the questionable technology they invest in despite ethical risks. (Full article here)
📸 Nvidia AI Image Generator 100KB, 4min Training
Nvidia created an efficient AI art generator called Perfusion that outperforms models like Stable Diffusion. It uses a technique called Key-Locking to flexibly generate personalized concepts while retaining their core identity. Perfusion is very small, just 100KB, letting it fine tune images without bloat. This aligns with Nvidia's AI focus amid booming demand to train generative models. (Full article here)
💻 Real Life Use Cases
Midjourney Prompt: Chromatic waves
Use this prompt to create this special effect on your photos!
🔏 Copy and paste the prompt below ⏬ (Credit)
cinematic shot, DJI Mavic 3, 3 story building, expensive, glowing neon, a chromatic waves, fluid lines, decorative lines, gold, architecture, photography, exotic island, sunny weather, gold and white color palette, cinematic --ar 21:9Here are the results ⬇️
Daily Definition
Superconductor
A 'Superconductor' is a special kind of material that can conduct electricity with zero electrical resistance. This means when electrical current is passed through a superconductor, it can flow indefinitely without losing any energy as heat. This is quite different from ordinary conductors like copper or gold where some energy is always lost as heat due to resistance.
But why does it matter to AI? Well, superconductors are crucial in the development of advanced computing systems, including quantum computers and potential AGI models. Quantum computing has the potential to accelerate AI development massively due to its ability to process and analyze vast amounts of data much faster than traditional computing. The quantum bits, or 'qubits', in these computers often require superconductors to function.
It's important to note that superconductors need very low temperatures, often close to absolute zero, to work. This requirement of extreme cooling is one of the challenges in widely implementing superconductor-based technologies.
🔮 AI Inspiration
Poll time! Real or AI generated picture
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