🔥Meta Heats Up AI Chatbot Race

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Today we will discuss-

• 🤖Meta rolls out Llama 3-powered AI assistant across its apps

• 🩺Hugging Face's solution for healthcare AI assessment

• 📓AI market growing at 37% YoY, report finds

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

All this and more - Let's dive in!

👩‍🍳What’s cooking in the newsroom?

Meta adds AI assistant, powered by Llama 3, to search bar across its apps

📱News - The Meta AI assistant, introduced last September, is being incorporated into the search bars of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and will soon be visible in the main Facebook feed. 

Users can interact with it in the messaging inboxes of Meta's apps, and from now on, it can be also accessed through its own website at Meta.ai.

🏋🏻‍♂️Can Meta's AI assistant rival ChatGPT though?  For Meta's assistant to be able to rival ChatGPT, its underlying model must match or exceed its quality. To this end, Meta is launching Llama 3, the latest version of its foundational open-source model. Meta claims Llama 3 outperforms similar models on key benchmarks and excels in tasks like coding. 

Today, two smaller Llama 3 models are being released, integrated into Meta's AI assistant and accessible to external developers, while a larger multimodal version is slated for release in the near future.

😺What's more? In addition to its AI assistant, Meta has improved its image generation capabilities to include animations, similar to GIFs, and produce high-resolution images in real-time as you type. 

The company is also beta-testing real-time AI image generation for WhatsApp users in the US. Those with access to the beta can experiment with the feature by initiating a chat with Meta AI and beginning a prompt with the word "Imagine."

Hugging Face introduces benchmark to assess healthcare-focused generative AI models

🏥Context of news - Generative AI models are increasingly being introduced into healthcare, and while some see them as a way to improve efficiency and discover overlooked insights, others argue that their adoption may be premature, citing potential flaws and biases in AI models that could negatively affect health outcomes. 

👨🏻‍⚕️News - In an effort to address these concerns and provide a potential solution, Hugging Face, an AI startup, has introduced Open Medical-LLM. Developed in collaboration with researchers from Open Life Science AI and the University of Edinburgh, this benchmark test aims to standardize the evaluation of generative AI models across various medical tasks.

Hugging Face has presented the benchmark as a comprehensive evaluation tool for healthcare-focused generative AI models. 

However, rather than creating it from scratch, the company put together existing tests MedQA, PubMedQA, and MedMCQA. These sets cover a wide range of medical domains including anatomy, pharmacology, genetics, and clinical practice. The benchmark incorporates both multiple-choice and open-ended questions that require medical reasoning and understanding, drawing from sources like US and Indian medical licensing exams and college biology test question banks.

🍎In conclusion - Open Medical-LLM consolidates existing tests and could serve as an initial screening tool to identify promising generative AI models for specific healthcare applications. However, because medical question-answering and real clinical practice can differ significantly, further testing will be necessary to thoroughly evaluate the model's capabilities and relevance in real-world conditions.

Demand for AI soars as businesses look to adopt new technologies

📈News - According to a new report by San Francisco-based Grand View Research, the demand for AI-powered products and services has grown by 37% year-over-year. The global AI market is expected to reach $1,811.75 billion by 2028.

This growth is being driven by a number of factors, including the increasing adoption of AI in a wide range of industries, such as healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.

🤔But what in particular is driving AI demand?

• As per the report, big data is making artificial intelligence grow. AI requires a large amount of data to be captured, stored, and analyzed in order to train its algorithms. The ability to analyze big data is giving AI new capabilities that are transforming industries.

• The increasing demand for image processing and identification has also driven the growth of the AI market. Image processing and identification are two of the most important applications of AI, and the demand for these applications is further expected to grow in the coming years.

🙆🏻‍♀️What else is happening?

• The new Firefly AI-powered Adobe Express app is now available on Mobile

• ChatGPT is coming to Nothing’s earbuds

• Internet users are getting younger; now the UK is weighing up if AI can help protect them

• Lenovo and Alibaba team up to build AI-powered personal computers

• Google consolidates its DeepMind and Research teams amid AI push

🎬AI-based movies

• Demon Seed (1977)  - It is a horror film about a woman who is imprisoned and forcibly impregnated by an artificially intelligent computer. The film explores the dangers of superintelligent computer systems and discusses the drawbacks of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The story has received a lot of criticism over the years, with many disliking the movie because of its gory nature.

• Robot & Frank (2012) - It is a science fiction comedy-drama film where Frank, an aging ex-jewel thief, receives a robot companion from his son. The robot is programmed to provide Frank with therapeutic care, but Frank soon realizes that the robot can be used for other purposes. Frank teaches the robot how to lock-pick and safecrack, and the two of them begin to commit burglaries together. The movie is fun-filled and a bit emotional towards the end.

• Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) - Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team The Avengers. The story deals with a peacekeeping program called Ultron that becomes self-aware and decides that humanity is the greatest threat to peace. Ultron sets out to destroy humanity and the Avengers must reunite to stop him. The film was a critical and commercial success.

👩🏼‍🚒Discover mind-blowing AI tools

1. AskNotion - A tool that allows users to create their own personal chatbot that is trained on their Notion Pages ($9.99/month)

2. Qriginals - A platform that allows users to create and customize QR codes with artistic designs ($10/50 credits) 

3. FaceFiesta.io - Allows users to create personalized stickers and emojis based on their face (Free)

4. Sassbook - Helps professional authors and enthusiasts create unique and original story content ($32.5/month)

5. Prompt Storm - Google Chrome extension with pre-written prompts for ChatGPT, Gemini,  Claude (Free)

6. Pictory - Converts your long form content such as text scripts or articles into highly-engaging branded videos with stock footage ($19/month)

7. Defog - An AI-powered data analysis tool that allows users to ask questions and receive answers from their own datasets (Free up to 1000 queries/month)

8. YaatriAI - A travel planning platform that provides personalized itineraries based on users' preferences and budgets (Free)

9. Ankara AI - An app that uses AI to generate narrations for videos (Free)

🗓️Historic moments

• 1957: American psychologist Frank Rosenblatt invents the perceptron, a neural network that can learn to recognize patterns.

• 1959: Mathematician and computer scientist Oliver Selfridge published "Pandemonium: A Paradigm for Learning," a landmark contribution to machine learning that described a model that could adaptively improve itself to find patterns in events.

• 1968: American computer science professor Terry Winograd created SHRDLU, the first multimodal AI that could manipulate and reason out a world of blocks according to instructions from a user.