🤯Biggest AI Success Story

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Today we will discuss-

• 🥴AI learns sarcasm from Friends and The Big Bang Theory

• 🤑Anguilla's ".ai" domain sparks wealth boom

• ☠️Microsoft's AI focus risks its climate goals

• ⚙️9 amazing AI tools you might not have heard of

All this and more - Let's dive in!

👩‍🍳What’s cooking in the newsroom?

Researchers develop AI sarcasm detector with help from popular sitcoms 'The Big Bang Theory' and 'Friends'

🙄News - Although AI can pass bar exams, excel in medical tests, and read bedtime stories with emotion, it can't truly match the human mind. However, this could soon change, as researchers in the Netherlands have developed an AI that can detect sarcasm, bringing it closer to replicating the subtleties of human humor and intelligence.

According to Matt Coler from the University of Groningen's speech technology lab, sarcasm is more prevalent in our communication than we realize, making its understanding crucial for smooth human-machine communication.

🍿The sitcom connection - To develop their AI, the team trained a neural network on text, audio, and emotional content from video clips of US sitcoms such as Friends and The Big Bang Theory. This database, known as Mustard, was compiled by researchers in the US and Singapore, who labeled sentences with sarcasm to create their detector.

Examples include a scene from The Big Bang Theory where Leonard's unsuccessful attempt to escape from a locked room leads Sheldon to comment, "It’s just a privilege to watch your mind at work." In another scene from Friends, Ross invites Rachel to join Joey and Chandler in assembling furniture, prompting Chandler to remark, "Yes, and we’re very excited about it."

🌝The result - After being trained on text, audio, and emotional cues from actors' dialogue, the AI managed to detect sarcasm in unannotated exchanges from the sitcoms with an accuracy of nearly 75%. 

The lab is now working on improving accuracy further using synthetic data. 

Anguilla's ".ai" domain revolutionizes island's fortunes, generating $32 Million in 2023 alone

🏄🏻‍♂️News - The risks and benefits related to AI technology are undeniably a hot topic nowadays, sparking discussions about its impact on our future. Amidst these debates, if there's one clear success story, it's that of Anguilla, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, where AI has brought significant prosperity. 

🤔How so? Anguilla's journey to prosperity began with its association with the ".ai" domain, similar to how countries use ".fr" for France or ".jp" for Japan online. As the AI industry flourished, companies globally scrambled to secure ".ai" domains to cement their presence in the field.

The inclusion of popular sites like Perplexity.ai, Claude.ai, and Elon Musk's X.ai further fueled the demand, resulting in wealth for Anguilla.

💰Let's talk numbers - 

• From July 2018 to July 2023, the number of .ai domains surged from 48,272 to 248,609, reaching 353,928 by December 2023. This translates to an average of 20,000 new registrations per month during this period.

• While Anguilla charges $140 for a two-year registration, renewal fees are notably higher compared to other domains globally. Moreover, failure to renew leads to auctioning, often fetching over 1000% of the original cost.

• In 2023 alone, Anguilla's government earned $32 million from new registrations, making up roughly 10% of the island's GDP.  And if that wasn't enough, this year, the island anticipates a 15% increase in registrations as more tech firms vie for a '.ai' domain.

🌞In conclusion - Well, with a population barely tipping 16,000 and a compact size of just 35 square miles, this cash influx sure is like hitting the jackpot for the island.

Microsoft's climate goals compromised by emphasis on AI expansion, reports show

🤢News - Microsoft's carbon emissions have surged since its ambitious climate commitment in 2020, with a roughly 30% increase in greenhouse gas output during the fiscal year 2023. This surge illustrates the challenge of balancing climate goals with ambitions to lead in AI technology.

As the energy demand for training and operating AI models grows, its environmental consequences are becoming more apparent. Microsoft's recent sustainability report serves as a prime example of the dilemma confronting major tech firms: despite making numerous climate commitments, they may inadvertently increase pollution as they prioritize advancements in AI technology.

The data from Microsoft's sustainability report showcases a notable shift in the wrong direction. The company emitted 15.357 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in the previous fiscal year, equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of nations like Haiti or Brunei.

🥵What's more? Data centers dedicated to training AI models consume even more energy than conventional data centers, which already require significant electricity for server operations and cooling systems. Microsoft intends to expand its data center infrastructure significantly as it focuses heavily on AI. The company reportedly invested $50 billion in the past fiscal year to fulfill its AI goals, a figure projected to be exceeded in the upcoming year.

🙆🏻‍♀️What else is happening?

• OpenAI staffers responsible for safety are jumping ship

• Gannett staff furious over contract allowing AI “to generate news content”

•  OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

• Musk pushes plan for China data to power Tesla's AI ambitions

• Sony Music slams tech giants for unauthorised use of stars’ songs

🎥 AI-based movies

• Eva (2011): A Spanish science fiction film directed by Kike Maíllo, "Eva" is set in 2041, where an engineer is tasked with creating a childlike robot. He becomes attached to a young girl named Eva, who may hold the key to his work. 

• A.I. Rising (2018): This Serbian film, also known as "Ederlezi Rising," follows a cosmonaut on a mission to Alpha Centauri accompanied by an AI android named Nimani. The film delves into the psychological and emotional dynamics between the human and the AI, raising questions about intimacy and dependence on technology.

• Morgan (2016): This science fiction thriller directed by Luke Scott centers around a corporate risk management consultant who must decide whether to terminate an artificially created humanoid being. The film explores the ethical implications of creating life and the potential dangers of advanced AI.

👩🏼‍🚒Discover mind-blowing AI tools

1. Textbuilder - A writing assistant that generates high-quality content for your blogs ($59 one-time payment)

2. InVideo - A video creation tool offers over 6000 professionally-created templates, single click shortcuts for editing, and more ($15/month)

3. Blackbox - Enables users to copy code from videos, images, PDFs, and other formats (Free) 

4. FotoFix - An AI-powered tool that can fix old and blurry images or enhance new ones (Free, $5/month) 

5. SkinGenerator.io - A website that allows users to create custom skins for video game characters ($0.99/5 skins+ 50 additional skins at $0.02/ generation)

6. Artguru - An AI-powered tool that allows users to create highly realistic and expressive avatars and portraits in various styles ($2.99/20 high-res avatars from choice of 6 styles)

7. Frontdoor - An AI knowledge assistant that helps users capture and organize information from the web (Free, $10/month) 

8. Jobscan - A job search tool that helps job seekers optimize their resumes for Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) (Free, $29.99/month) 

9. AtOnce - An AI content generator and CRM that helps businesses make SEO optimized content 10x faster ($99/month)

🔮Bizzare AI Predictions

Robots at Work: Automation is already replacing human labor in various sectors, but the prediction that AI will take over most jobs presents a dystopian vision of the future. This shift could dramatically impact global economies, resulting in widespread unemployment or possibly leading to the adoption of universal basic income.