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🚨Prime Video will let you summon AI to recap what you’re watching
🫥The new X-Ray Recaps feature will be able to summarize TV seasons, episodes, and parts of episodes.
🫥Amazon’s Prime Video is getting a new generative AI-powered feature to help catch you up on a show. The new tool, called X-Ray Recaps, can create text summaries of “of full seasons of TV shows, single episodes, and even pieces of episodes,” the company says in a blog post.
🫥X-Ray Recaps will be accessible from the detail page of a show or in X-Ray while you’re watching something. The tool “analyzes various video segments, combined with subtitles or dialogue, to generate detailed descriptions of key events, places, times, and conversations,” Amazon says. Amazon has also applied “guardrails” to help the feature avoid sharing spoilers and to keep summaries concise.
🫥X-Ray Recaps, which is are beta, are coming to Fire TV devices starting today, with support for “additional devices” available by the end of this year, Amazon says. The feature, at launch, will work with all Amazon MGM Studios Original series.
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Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, says in an interview surprisingly openly that self-improving AI will be achieved in 3-5 years at the latest, but certainly before 2030.
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Russia has created a neurorat: a neural interface with AI was connected to the rodent and it became the smartest rodent
Electrodes are connected to the brain areas of the rat Pythia and stimulate the cortex in certain places so that the animal gives the correct answer: she answered all the questions correctly - from the simplest examples to Einstein's birthday
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In the future, everyone might be able to get a cyborg body, but along the way, there's a huge opportunity to revolutionize assistive tech for those with disabilities.
CYBATHLON 2024, held last week, is a Cyborg Olympics that challenges assistive technologies developers.
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Mustafa Suleyman says in the next couple of decades AI will cause a revolution of the most disruptive and destabilizing change we have ever seen and raise fundamental questions about what it means to be human
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Alexandr Wang says investment in AI will soon exceed the US defense budget and the most devastating AI safety scenarios can be avoided if the US leads in AI but the US government is investing 3-10x less than China
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says in 5 years, AI systems will be able to write and improve on their own code leading to recursive self-improvement and humans are not ready
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Wearable robots are helping people with paraplegia walk.
WalkON Suit F1, a groundbreaking powered exoskeleton, redefines mobility for people with paraplegia, enabling independent walking and balanced movement.
This device allows users to transition seamlessly from their wheelchair into the suit, designed to prioritize ease of use and autonomy.
Created through a collaboration between KAIST Exoskeleton Laboratory and ANGEL Robotics, the WalkON Suit series reflects years of research and development, with earlier models gaining recognition on the global stage.
Notably, a previous version secured gold at Cybathlon 2024, setting a high benchmark for the evolving potential of wearable robotics.
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Apple Intelligence is expected to roll out this week. Daniel Howley on what's to come:
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Sam Altman teases new OpenAI image model: "without spoiling anything, I would expect rapid progress in image-based models"
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says they are building an AI that is "a real friend that gets to know you", that has "a lasting, meaningful relationship" with people and that's "not just a tool"
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Four-foot-tall Booster T1 bots trying to play soccer on a tricky beach surface.
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🚨Google Maps will use AI to answer questions about the new restaurant you want to try
🟦The app will also start letting you search for locations with descriptive prompts as well as display AI-summarized reviews.
🟦Google Maps is getting a big update that’s supposed to help you find new places to visit with AI. Starting this week, you’ll be able to explore more locations with Immersive View and search for specific spots based on a descriptive query like “things to do with friends at night.”
Google will then use its Gemini AI model to come up with “inspirational collections” matching that description. For late-night options, Google Maps might pull up locations categorized as “speakeasies” or places with “live music.” Meanwhile, regular search results remain below these collections.
🟦Google Maps will let you type in a question or choose from ones it generated with AI. GIF: Google
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🟦But that’s not the extent of the AI features Google is adding to Maps. Once you tap on a location, you’ll see AI-generated summaries of user reviews, along with a prompt to “Ask Maps about this place.” Here, you can enter a question, and Maps will use Gemini to provide an AI-generated answer based on what it’s gathered from reviews.
🟦During a press briefing, Google Maps head Miriam Daniel demonstrated how this might work by selecting a restaurant and entering, “Is it a quiet atmosphere?” Google Maps then returned an answer saying the location “has a lively atmosphere and a cozy feel.” Beneath the response, you’ll see the reviews Gemini used to inform its answer. These features are rolling out on Android and iOS this week in the US, building upon the AI integration Google began experimenting with earlier this year.
🟦“We wanted to make sure that anything we show in this experience is fresh and factual,” Daniel said. “There are 100 million updates happening every day, and we’re able to pull from that refreshed fresh information and ground the results from Gemini... making sure that the results show real places.
🟦Google is also expanding Immersive View to 150 cities. This feature, first rolled out in 2022, combines Street View and satellite images to provide an aerial view of a location, while also offering the ability to explore a city at street level. Some other updates include enhanced navigation that will show more details on the map when driving in select cities and updates to its Waze-like destination guidance features it previewed in July. Speaking of Waze, the Google-owned app is also adding the ability to report incidents on the road with your voice.
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Anthropic dropped the first AI Agent that can click around and type on your computer for you.
This will be the norm by mid 2025.
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Bill Gates says AI will become so good at solving problems and creating attractive activities for humans to do that we need a new religion or philosophy to stay connected to one another
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Known for following in Tesla's footsteps, XPENG is doing so quite literally with humanoid robots.
XPENG announced Iron, a 5-foot-10-inch robot that weighs 153 lb (70 kg) and has human-like dexterous hands.
⦿ Iron robot has begun 'working' in their vehicle factory in China.
⦿ Robot's localized AI brain will run on the in-house designed Turing AI chip. The same chip will run on XPENG vehicles for self-driving.
⦿ Iron's latest-gen hand has 15 degrees of freedom and supports tactile sensing.
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🚨 Jeff Bezos and OpenAI invest in robot startup Physical Intelligence at $2.4 billion valuation
🔹 Physical Intelligence, a robot startup based in San Francisco, has raised $400 million at a $2.4 billion post-money valuation, the company confirmed Monday to CNBC.
Investors included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAl, Thrive Capital and Lux Capital, a Physical Intelligence spokesperson said. Bond Capital said it also invested. Khosla Ventures and Sequoia Capital are also listed as investors on the company's website.
🔹 Physical Intelligence's new valuation is about six times that of its March seed round, which reportedly came in at $70 million with a $400 million valuation. Its current roster of employees includes alumni of Tesla, Google DeepMind and X. The startup focuses on "bringing general-purpose Al into the physical world," per its website, and it aims to do this by developing large-scale artificial intelligence models and algorithms to power robots. The startup spent the past eight months developing a "general-purpose" Al model for robots, the company wrote in a blog post.
🔹 Physical Intelligence hopes that model will be the first step toward its ultimate goal of developing artificial general intelligence. AGl is a term used to describe Al technology that equals or surpasses human intellect on a wide range of tasks. The news comes days after OpenAl launched a search feature within ChatGPT, its viral chatbot, that positions the Al startup to better compete with search engines like Google, Microsoft's Bing and Perplexity.
🔹 Last month, OpenAl also closed its latest funding round at a valuation of $157 billion. Physical Intelligence's vision is that one day users can "simply ask robots to perform any task they want, just like they can ask large language models (LLMs) and chatbot assistants," the startup wrote in the blog post. In case studies, Physical Intelligence details how its tech could allow a robot to do laundry, bus tables or assemble a box.
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OpenAI bought the Chat․com domain for 15 million
The developer of ChatGPT, OpenAI, acquired one of the oldest domains on the Internet, Chat․com, for more than $15 million.
Now, when users go to the site, it redirects to ChatGPT.
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Sam Altman says in 5 years we will have "an unbelievably rapid rate of improvement in technology", a "totally crazy" pace of progress and discovery, and AGI will have come and gone, but society will change surprisingly little
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s life advice
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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott says he was skeptical about OpenAI before he met Sam Altman until Sam explained that AI capability scaled predictably with compute and data, and he continues to hold to this principle
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Elon on Optimus during the FII '24 interview:
⦿ There will be at least 10 billion humanoid robots by 2040, with a price point of $20–$25k.
⦿ Optimus will make Tesla a $25 trillion company.
⦿ Assuming we are on the good path with AI, we will be in a future of abundance where anyone can have any goods and services they want. It won’t be a case of Universal Basic Income but will instead be a case of Universal High Income.
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Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju says in 10 years most film and TV will be generated rather than rendered and there will be 20x as much content to watch
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Sam Altman discusses AI agents: an AI that could not just book a restaurant, but call 300 restaurants looking for the best fit for you and more importantly act like a senior co-worker, collaborating on tasks for days or weeks at a time
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AI has achieved 'scent teleportation' 🤯
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says memory and vision are coming to AI, where it can remember everything it learns about you and see everything you see
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Elon Musk’s 𝕏Ai to raise funding at $40 BILLION valuation
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Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, recently revealed that more than 25% of all new code written at Google is generated by AI. This is a monumental shift in how software development is approached, highlighting AI's growing role in enhancing productivity, creativity, and efficiency.
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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says artificial superintelligence - AI that is 10,000 smarter than a human - will arrive by 2035
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Bill Gates says AI will be able to model human biology and health beyond our ability to comprehend and it will lead to many health problems being solved in the next 10-20 years
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