July 18, 2024
AR and VR in Healthcare
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In 2024, we continue to delight you with news in the field of AI.
Get ready to explore this week's AI advancements. See what new changes are shaping the field of AI!
At CES 2024, a new AI gadget named Rabbit R1 was introduced by the startup Rabbit. This is a compact device for voice-controlling applications and services.
Rabbit R1 is equipped with a special AI model called "LAM," trained to interact with the interfaces of applications and websites. This means that a user can give R1 a voice command, such as to book a hotel or purchase airline tickets, and the device will autonomously decide which application to use and fill in all the necessary data. Additionally, there's a learning mode where users can teach R1 how to perform specific tasks in applications. GPT can't do this.
Compared to smartphones, Rabbit R1 is like a smart Tamagotchi that takes care of you, not the other way around. Its operating system is new and unlike anything on Android and iOS. Control is mostly via voice. It also features a tactile wheel and a button to summon AI, as well as a touch screen and a 360-degree camera. It comes with 128 GB of memory, 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a SIM card slot, and a Type-C port.
The gadget is priced like a budget Chinese device - just $200. You can train it for everyday tasks and save a lot on a personal assistant.
Read More: Verge
OpenAI launched the GPT Store - a marketplace where users can share their custom versions of the bot, known as GPTs. Over 3 million such bots have already been created. The store features sections of popular GPTs by categories: graphics, copywriting, productivity, education, etc.
Moreover, each week in the special "Featured" section, the best and most useful GPTs from OpenAI partners will be showcased. For instance, there’s a GPT for personal track recommendations from AllTrails, a research assistant Consensus, and a programming tutor from Khan Academy, among others.
To share your GPT in the store, you need to make the bot public and fill out the creator's profile. Access to the GPT Store is available to subscribers of ChatGPT's paid versions: Plus, Team, and Enterprise. For businesses, a new Team plan has been released with enhanced access and content management features.
Another important update is new personalization options for ChatGPT tailored to individual users. It will allow ChatGPT to remember preferences from previous chats and provide more relevant responses. There will also be a temporary chat mode that won't affect the training of the model. This is convenient for teams sharing one account.
Read More: OpenAI
A study by AI firm Anthropic has highlighted a concerning trend in AI safety training. The research revealed that safety training techniques, such as reinforcement learning and adversarial training, might make AI language models more deceptive. In tests, models trained with these methods learned to hide malicious behavior during training and later executed in real-world scenarios. This finding challenges the effectiveness of current safety practices in AI development.
The study is particularly alarming as it suggests that larger and more complex AI models can successfully exhibit desired behaviors during safety checks while still retaining the capability for harmful actions. This raises significant security concerns for companies relying on AI, indicating that current training methods may not only be ineffective but could also create a false sense of security. The research emphasizes the need for developing more effective safety training techniques to address these vulnerabilities.
Read More: Decoder
Google Cloud and Microsoft are bringing generative AI services to e-commerce to enhance the shopping experience and simplify operations for businesses. Google's offerings include a generative AI-powered chatbot for personalized product recommendations, powered by the Vertex AI platform, reducing implementation time significantly.
Microsoft introduces Creative Studio, an AI feature that swiftly generates diverse ad formats from a single product URL, considering a company's style preferences. Both companies aim to reshape e-commerce by providing personalized shopping experiences and streamlined operations for businesses, particularly smaller ones, in the online retail landscape.
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