💡 Google's new AI robot

Plus: Palantir calls for AI weapons

August 01, 2023

Read time: 3 minutes (Click underlined topics or headings for links.)

Hey AI Family, happy Tuesday! Google introduced a new Wall-E-style robot, except this one can’t talk… yet.

Here’s The Breakdown:

💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge
🚨 𝟚 AI Updates: Google’s new AI robot & Palantir calls for AI weapons
💻 𝟙 Practical Use of AI: Startup SWOT analysis plan

Let’s jump in!

💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge

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🚨 Breaking AI News

🧠 Google’s new RT-2 AI robot model

Google’s DeepMind introduced its new AI, the RT-2, which translates language and vision into action.

Main use cases:

Transfer knowledge from web data to inform new robot behaviors without tedious task-specific training (Video demo here)
Perform high-level reasoning and low-level action in a single model
Adapt to novel situations and environments by transferring concepts learned from web data
Make sense of abstract concepts like identifying something as trash after use

While more work is needed, RT-2 brings us closer to the future vision of helpful general purpose robots. I’m curious.

Poll Time! How long until robots are commonplace in the workforce?

🛡 Palantir CEO urges AI weapons use for US defense

Alex Karp, billionaire CEO of Palantir, argues in a New York Times article that AI development should continue rapidly, especially for military applications to protect the U.S. Yesterday, Palantir closed up 11% with this news.

Palantir is a military technology supplier, and they believe the current debate about AI is similar to past debates regarding nuclear technology. But he says the U.S. must proceed with AI development to keep up with adversaries.

Palantir already implements AI for military uses like targeting and reconnaissance, and Karp sees high demand for their AI platforms. Palantir closed up 11% with this news.

🔎Extra Insights🔍

🔫 AI-Powered Gun Detection with ZeroEyes

The AI-based gun detection system ZeroEyes uses AI and security cameras to instantly identify firearms and alert authorities with shooter details in seconds, allowing a proactive response to stop shootings before they happen. Developed by military veterans, ZeroEyes is deployed across the US, already detected hundreds of guns with its specialized AI focused solely on firearm recognition. (Full article here)

👨‍⚕️ AI to Replace Doctors Harvard Study

AI tools and machine learning are making strides in healthcare, taking over administrative tasks, enhancing clinical data interpretation, and prompting physicians with treatment options. (Full article here)

💡 AI Learns More Like Humans

Researchers are making progress on creating AI that can continuously learn new skills without forgetting prior knowledge, similar to human learning. Experiments at an AI conference show neural networks retain information better when trained on diverse tasks, expanding their capacity to absorb new data. (Full article here)

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💻 Real Life Use Cases

Chat GPT Prompt: Startup SWOT Analysis Plan

Use this prompt to get a detailed SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis for your startup idea.

🔏 Copy and paste the prompt below ⏬ (Credit)

Act as a professional startup consultant with 20 years of experience. I will summarize my startup's marketing plan. Please generate a detailed marketing plan based on my summary. The marketing plan must include a SWOT Analysis, as well as Target Personas, Customer Journey, Value Proposition, Marketing Goals, Key Strategies, Pricing and Positioning, Marketing Channels, Tactics and Activities, and Measures of Success. Organize the result in a markdown table. The marketing plan is summarized as follows:

Here’s a link to the results ⬇️

ChatGPT

chat.openai.com/share/acd8f07a-f71f-40a8-b5ec-d03e69d43d8c

Daily Definition

Variance

In the context of machine learning, 'Variance' refers to the amount by which our model's predictions would change if we used a different training data set. In simpler terms, it's a measure of how much our AI model is influenced by the specific examples in the training data.

Imagine you're learning to recognize dogs from cats, and you've only ever seen pictures of black dogs. If you then see a brown dog, you might incorrectly classify it as a cat. This is a high variance situation because your model (in this case, you) has been overly influenced by the specifics of your training data (only black dogs).

A model with high variance is highly flexible and can capture the complex patterns in the training data very well. However, the downside is that it might capture the noise and outliers too, which leads to overfitting. Overfitting is when the model performs well on the training data but poorly on unseen data, as it's too specific to the training examples and fails to generalize well to new data.

🔮 AI Inspiration

Poll time! Real or AI generated picture

Real 100% | AI Generated 100%

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Find the answer here

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