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• 🎪Top AI updates from Google I/O 2024

• 🙃Bumble founder's AI dating vision 

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

All this and more - Let's dive in!

👩‍🍳What’s cooking in the newsroom?

From Astra to Veo, the 10 biggest AI announcements from Google I/O 2024

🔥News - Google I/O was jam-packed with AI announcements. Here's a roundup of all the latest developments.

1. Google is introducing "Ask Photos," a feature that allows Gemini to search your Google Photos library in response to your questions. Example: Gemini can identify a license plate number and provide an accompanying picture for confirmation.

2. Google Lens now allows video-based searches. You can record a video, ask a question, and Google's AI will find relevant answers from the web.

3. Google introduced Gemini 1.5 Flash, a new AI model optimized for fast responses in narrow, high-frequency, low-latency tasks.

4. Google has enhanced Gemini 1.5 to improve its translation, reasoning, and coding capabilities. Additionally, the context window of Gemini 1.5 Pro has been doubled from 1 million to 2 million tokens.

5. Google announced Project Astra, a multimodal AI assistant designed to be a do-everything AI agent. It will use your device's camera to understand surroundings, remember item locations, and perform tasks on your behalf. 

6. Google unveiled Veo, a new generative AI model rivaling OpenAI's Sora. Veo can generate 1080p videos from text, image, and video prompts, offering various styles like aerial shots or timelapses. It's available to some creators for YouTube videos and is being pitched to Hollywood for potential use in films.

7. Google is launching Gems, a custom chatbot creator similar to OpenAI's GPTs. Users can instruct Gemini to specialize in various tasks. Example: It can be customized to help users learn Spanish by providing personalized language learning exercises and practice sessions. This feature will soon be available to Gemini Advanced subscribers.

8. A new feature, Gemini Live, will enhance voice chats with Gemini by adding extra personality to the chatbot's voice and allowing users to interrupt it mid-sentence.

9. Google is introducing "AI Overviews" in search. With this update, a specialized Gemini model will design and populate results pages with summarized answers from the web, similar to tools like Perplexity.

10. Google is adding Gemini Nano, the lightweight version of its Gemini model, to Chrome on desktop. This built-in assistant will use on-device AI to help generate text for social media posts, product reviews, and more directly within Google Chrome.

Bumble founder shares bold vision for AI-powered dating future

🤹🏻‍♀️News - Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of Bumble, has sparked a debate about the impact of AI on online dating dynamics.

During a recent interview, Herd discussed the potential implications of AI on the dating experience. She addressed concerns such as the rise of fake profiles and the possibility of individuals forming emotional connections with AI-powered bots. However, Herd also made a persuasive argument for using technology to promote more meaningful and equitable relationships.

🕵🏻‍♀️Herd's vision - Herd suggested the concept of an AI "dating concierge," an intelligent assistant designed to provide personalized advice and support to users navigating modern romance.

Taking it a step further, she proposed that these AI concierges could arrange dates with each other, potentially leading to successful matches for their human users.

📊Public opinion - Herd's innovative ideas were faced with criticism, with some drawing comparisons to an episode of the dystopian series "Black Mirror," in which individuals experience a simulated dating world controlled by a powerful algorithm. Others expressed concerns about entrusting matters of the heart to AI. 

However, Herd remains confident in her belief that this system could revolutionize the dating scene by simplifying the matchmaking process and sparing users the laborious task of sifting through numerous profiles.

🙆🏻‍♀️What else is happening?

• OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is officially leaving

• Artificial intelligence hitting labour forces like a "tsunami" - IMF Chief

• Elon Musk's xAI nears $10 bln deal to rent Oracle's AI servers

• ChatGPT is getting a Mac app

• Apple releases Logic Pro for Mac and iPad updates with new AI features

👷‍♀️Did you know?

• Google claimed to have developed an AI, in 2021, that possesses the ability to design computer chips in less than 6 hours, a task that takes human designers several months.

• Self-driving cars can reduce taxi waiting time by 88%, it is projected that by 2050, these cars will also be able to reduce accidents on the road by approximately 90%.

• The "CloudPainter" team, consisting of both a human artist and an AI, collaborated to create a unique masterpiece in the 2018 RobotArt competition. The human artist initiated the painting, while the AI, trained in various art styles, offered creative directions, resulting in a one-of-a-kind collaborative creation.

👩🏼‍🚒Discover mind-blowing AI tools

1. Rizemail - An AI-powered email summarization tool that helps users get to the core of their unread newsletters and long email threads (Free)

2. Humata - A tool that provides an easy way to quickly summarize long papers and get instant answers ($1.99/month)

3. Remini -  A photo-enhancement app that uses AI to enhance everyday portraits and selfies to achieve a professional and influencer-style output ($17.99/month)

4. Turbologo - An online logo maker tool that helps people to create professional and high-quality logos in minutes (Free)

5. AlphaCTR - An AI-powered platform that helps users create high-performance thumbnails and ad creatives quickly ($5/month)

6. MakeShorts - An AI-powered tool that allows users to turn YouTube videos into short clips ($9/month)

7. Civitai - An online platform that makes it easy for people to share and discover resources for creating AI art (Free)

8. GetMax - An AI-powered content marketing assistant that helps businesses plan, create, and optimize their content strategies ($49.9/month)

9. WebWhiz - A tool that allows users to create a chatbot with AI capabilities to answer customer queries on their website ($19/month)

🐦AI Twitter influencers

• Allie K. Miller - An AI influencer with a deep understanding of machine learning, startups, and venture capital. She shares actionable insights into AI innovation, entrepreneurship within the sector, and savvy guidance for those building AI companies.

• Andrew Ng - One of the leading pioneers of online education, he founded DeepLearning.AI and co-founded Coursera. A go-to for insights on learning AI, the evolution of deep learning, and AI funding trends. 

• Fei-Fei Li - Dr. Li is the co-director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute, co-founder of AI4ALL, and a renowned computer vision expert. She discusses the human impact of AI, with a particular focus on healthcare applications and diversity in the field.