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• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁮󠁩󠁲󠁿Michigan takes step to tackle fake AI political ads

• 🤖Amazon unveils a special kind of chatbot for businesses

• 👨‍💼Management consultants in UK to be most impacted by AI

• 😱 9 fantastic AI tools you might not have heard of

All this and more - Let's dive in!

👩‍🍳What’s cooking in the newsroom?

Michigan joins state-level effort to regulate AI political advertisements

📰News - Michigan is taking steps to prevent people from using artificial intelligence and manipulated media to spread false information during elections. This development unfolds as the U.S. government is still discussing how to regulate these technologies nationwide.

Campaigns to be aired in Michigan state will be required to clearly reveal which political advertisements were created using artificial intelligence. Well, the new legislation is expected to be signed in the coming days by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat. New rules will ban AI-made deepfakes within 3 months of elections unless they're clearly labeled as fake.

🧐Why was this step necessary?'

• There are increasing concerns that generative AI will be used in the 2024 election to mislead voters and impersonate candidates on a scale and at a speed not yet seen.

• Violations of the proposed legislation could result in misdemeanor charges, carrying a maximum penalty of 93 days imprisonment, a $1,000 fine, or both. The attorney general or the candidate affected by the deceptive media could seek redress through the appropriate circuit court.

• Several states, including California, Minnesota, Texas, and Washington, have already enacted regulations to curtail deepfakes in political campaigns. Similar measures have been proposed in Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, and New York.

• In August, the Federal Election Commission took a procedural step toward potentially regulating AI-generated deepfakes in political ads under its existing rules. Meanwhile, social media companies also have announced some guidelines meant to mitigate the spread of harmful deepfakes.

Amazon introduces AI-powered chatbot Q for businesses of all size

📻News - Amazon has released Q, an AI-powered chatbot that can help AWS customers seamlessly manage the day-to-day workings of their business.

Q can tap into a wide range of data sources, including Salesforce, Jira, Zendesk, and Gmail, to gain a deep understanding of a company's operations and systems. Basically, Q gathers and stores information from all of the connected sources to analyze and identify patterns and relationships in the data.

🤔What makes Q so special?

• Q possesses the ability to generate or summarize various forms of content, including blog posts, press releases, and emails. It can even undertake actions on behalf of users through a series of configurable plugins.

• It can tackle connectivity issues, meticulously analyzing network configurations to identify and address underlying problems.

• The bot is also capable of helping users write plans and instructions for adding new features to software or making changes to the code.

• To minimize errors, it ensures that users review its proposed actions before execution and provides links to relevant information for verification. It has a strong technical backing to avoid hallucination.

• Social media along with the AI community has reacted positively to this development. The chatbot starts at $20 per year and is now in full public preview.

Management consultants in the UK to be most impacted by AI, study finds

🗞️News - A new report from the UK's Department for Education's Unit for Future Skills has found that Generative AI (GAI) is likely to have a significant impact on the UK job market, particularly in the finance and insurance sectors.

The report, which is one of the first attempts to quantify the impact of Gen AI on the UK labor market, found that jobs in management consulting and business analysis are most at risk of being automated by Generative Artificial Intelligence. Workers in London and the South East of England are also more likely to be affected by GAI than those in other parts of the country.

😵What’s more? As per the report, GAI is more likely to automate tasks in professional occupations than in jobs that are manual in nature and require less education. However, this new technology is likely to play a complementary role to human workers, rather than replacing them entirely.

The same tone was heard in a recent report from the International Labour Organization (ILO), which stated that GAI is likely to automate some tasks but is not expected to lead to mass job losses.

Lastly, the UK's report called for a reskilling of the workforce to prepare for the impact of Gen AI. It also suggests that workers should focus on developing skills in areas such as data analysis, coding, and problem-solving.

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👩🏼‍💻What else is happening?

• AWS adds guardrails for Amazon Bedrock to help safeguard LLMs

• Meta to support project for using Gen AI in consumer grievance redressal

• Head of Google Bard believes AI can help improve communication and compassion

• Abu Dhabi launches AI company A171 to compete with OpenAI

• Nvidia taps China talent for autonomous driving endeavors

🤩AI life hacks

• AI-powered calendar management - Free yourself up from the burden of scheduling meetings. Instead, use AI calendar assistants to automate your meeting scheduling. These assistants can analyze your and the participants' calendars to find a time that works for everyone considering your location and real-time traffic to send invitations with precise departure times.

• Get an AI wearable - AI-powered wearables can help you maximize your sleep, recovery, and stress management. When you want to stay productive, sleep can sometimes take a back seat to work and life. But it is essential for our overall health and well-being. An AI-powered wearable can help you track not just your sleep but can also help you with your heart rate, blood oxygen, and respiratory rate readings.

• Risk assessment by AI - Employ AI-powered risk assessment tools to make informed decisions. The tools can analyze data to identify and assess potential risks, helping you make informed decisions about your investments.

👩🏼‍🚒Discover mind-blowing AI tools

1. DocDecoder - A browser extension that uses AI technology to generate clear and concise summaries of legal policies

2. Roastrocket - An AI-driven web service that analyzes and optimizes landing pages

3. Gordon RamsAI - Provides helpful information and answers questions based on a given piece of text

4. 5mino - Designed to combat loneliness and stress by providing AI-generated activities that take only 5 minutes to complete

5. Genius - A diagram-sharing platform that allows users to create and share diagrams

6. SlidesPilot - An AI-powered tool that helps users create PowerPoint presentations quickly and easily

7. Xero.AI - A no-code analytics web application that allows users to upload datasets and transform data

8. Runday - An AI-powered appointment booking tool that helps users manage their day-to-day tasks more efficiently

9. NVIDIA Canvas - A tool that uses AI to turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscape images

📜Historic moments

• 2018 - Google's AI research team unveiled BERT, a game-changer in natural language processing. BERT's bidirectional approach transformed language understanding and generation, capturing nuances and context within texts, a leap that reshaped the field by enabling AI to comprehend language more comprehensively.

• 2020 - OpenAI released the GPT-3, a monumental leap in language AI. With 175 billion parameters, the platform's text generation advanced communication, translation, and content creation, is shaping the future of AI applications.

• 2021 - NVIDIA's GameGAN generated playable video games from videos, signifying a milestone in reshaping game development through interactive virtual world creation. GameGAN is a highlighted project within NVIDIA's AI endeavors.