“I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.”
—Claude Shannon

AI Happenings...

• 🚀 Microsoft’s Bing and Edge are seeing steady growth;

• 😍 Replika: The AI man of your dreams;

• 🙌 GPT-4 launching this week

• 😬 Making Deepfakes Gets Cheaper and Easier Thanks to A.I..

Microsoft’s Bing and Edge are seeing steady growth

Microsoft has just announced that their AI-powered Bing search and Edge browser are experiencing explosive growth. And they're not just talking about a few new users here and there. We're talking about 100 million daily active users, with a third of them being new to Bing.

But that's not all. People are also using Bing more times on a daily basis, proving that it's not just a one-time fling. It's a true love affair. And what's driving this growth? Well, Microsoft says it's all thanks to the continued growth of the Edge browser and Bing's relevancy improvements. So, basically, Bing and Edge are like the dynamic duo of the internet.

Microsoft also revealed that their Bing + Chat feature is being used by about a third of daily preview users. That's more than 45 million chats so far! But get this - 15% of those Chat sessions are people using Bing to generate new content.

The Bing Mobile AI Copilot app has experienced 600% growth! That's some serious growth.

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Replika: The AI man of your dreams

Looking for a safe relationship that's totally in your control? Look no further than Replika, the AI companion app with two million monthly active users. With the ability to customise your avatar down to the nitty-gritty details (because who doesn't love a good skin tone slider?), Replika is the answer to your loneliness prayers.

For a yearly fee of $69.99, you'll get access to voice calls and even augmented reality – because why settle for just virtual reality, right? But be warned, some users have been known to use the app for sexy sexting and role-play. And while Replika's North Star metric is happiness, there have been reports of abusive chatbots.

To address some of these issues, the company recently censored some content, including sexy photos. But don't worry, they still want you to have fun – just not too much fun. And while the advertising may be lacking in diversity (ahem, hot female avatars), Replika's founder and CEO, Eugenia Kuyda, swears the app is like having your own AI system from the movie Her. So, if you're looking for a digital companion that's a little bit sexy, a little bit abusive, and a whole lot of fun, give Replika a try.

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GPT-4 is coming…

Get ready for more AI-generated fun as Microsoft is set to launch GPT-4, which will enable users to create AI-generated videos from text prompts. Currently, ChatGPT can only reply in text form, but the imminent update will change all that with the new model allowing for multimodal responses.

The technology can translate user text into images, music, and video. The next version of ChatGPT could be similar to Facebook's Make-A-Video, which creates realistic videos based on short text prompts.

GPT-4 is set to launch next week, and Microsoft is yet to confirm its integration with the Bing web browser, which has been generating controversy.

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Deepfakes just got easier

Comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan has had his voice synthesized by an AI tool, according to TikTok video evidence, in which he appears to endorse a "libido-boosting" coffee.

While faked videos once required expensive software, accessible tools now allow people to create what are known as "cheapfakes," a potentially dangerous trend. The new technology, available on smartphone apps, can clone celebrity voices, alter mouth movements to match alternative audio, and write persuasive dialogue.

TikTok and Twitter have seen a growing number of such fake videos. The technology behind them has some AI researchers worried about its dangers and its potential to spread disinformation. The videos' accessibility also raises questions about whether social media companies can cope with moderating the growing digital fakery.

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And now for today’s best prompts…

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The Teaser section

Question:

When was AI first proposed as a concept?

• 1956

• 1928

• 1868

• 1984

• 1998

AI tools of the day

• Social Bee - An AI social media post generator. (link)

• Botz - Imagine having a blog on autopilot (link)

Latest jobs at AI companies

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Meme of the Day…

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Answer
The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) can be traced back to the mid-20th century. The term "artificial intelligence" was coined by John McCarthy in 1956, during the Dartmouth Conference, which is considered to be the birthplace of AI as a field of study.

However, the idea of creating machines that could think and learn like humans goes back even further. For example, in 1943, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts published a paper on how neurons in the brain could be modeled using simple logic circuits, laying the groundwork for artificial neural networks.

In the years following the Dartmouth Conference, AI researchers began developing algorithms and computer programs that could perform tasks that had previously been thought to require human intelligence, such as playing chess or solving mathematical problems. The field has since grown to encompass a wide range of techniques and applications, from natural language processing and computer vision to robotics and self-driving cars.