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Today, we're diving into the thrilling debate sparked by the AI legend Geoffrey Hinton, looking at how AI meets medicine in the operating room, will befriend VIMA - the versatile robot that understands your text and visual cues, and discover how startups are leveling the retail playing field against the mighty Amazon. All that and more, because in the world of AI, there's never a dull day!

This issue covers:

• Latest Developments 🌍

• Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• Hot Takes 🔥

• AI Meme of the Day 🤡

Read time: 3 mins

Latest Developments 🌍

AI: You love me, you love me not 😊

When top AI expert Geoffrey Hinton left his job at Google to warn everyone about the dangers of AI, like fake news and weapon systems that think for themselves, everyone was surprised. His new thesis, packed with a controversial stand that deep learning alone can unlock human-like intelligence, has sparked a hot debate among experts. In a recent talk at King's College, London, he suggested that AI could one day develop emotions such as frustration and anger much similar to humans.

AI-Assisted Surgery 🩺

Medivis is advancing surgical care with the latest breakthroughs in augmented reality, Al and computer vision, helping reduce complications and improve patient care. Tackling a range of medical conditions from cancer to congenital anomalies, the compact yet mighty solution, SurgicalAR, delivers immediate, detailed data visualizations. With CT scans, ultrasound, or radiation oncology data rendered in 3D, surgeons can finesse their preoperative plans like never before.

Text-to-Robot Action 🎬🤖

Imagine a clever robot that can do a variety of tasks from your text and visual prompts. Meet VIMA (General Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts) which uses a mix of textual and visual cues to perform robot manipulation tasks with finesse. Think of it as a highly-skilled robot chef, mixing text and visual cues to whip up an array of tabletop tasks!

AI-powered Warehouse-as-a-service 📦

To enable small companies to stand against the giant Amazon Retail, Softbank launched the automated warehousing solution as Warehouse-as-a-service (WaaS). Now small startups can access localized warehouses with Amazon-like automation for lightning-fast deliveries.

More AI Developments

• AI Bubble Ready to Burst?: JP Morgan warns that AI-driven stock market rally may burst due to lack of concrete evidence of AI-powered earnings growth, while Goldman Sachs sees potential for broader rally among other stocks.

• Fear Cripples in the House: During a debate in the House of Lords on the development of AI, a peer warned that AI bots with "deeper knowledge, higher productivity and lower running costs" could replace members of the House.

• Prompting LLMs with Speech Recognition Abilities: LLLMs are enhanced with a small audio encoder, enabling speech recognition alongside text processing, achieving multilingual capabilities and operating on long-form audio.

• Educators in Trouble Again: OpenAI has quietly discontinued its tool to detect AI-generated content, due to its low accuracy rate, and is now researching more effective text provenance techniques.

Tools of the Trade ⚒️

• ROQ: Build your SaaS webapp including data model, APIs, forms, authentication, roles, permissions & notifications, all with prompts in a few minutes.

• Cyanite: AI-powered music search and tagging with millions of songs categorized in minutes.

• Milo: AI co-pilot for parents, that processes various forms of information and provides organized and accessible updates and reminders.

• WellyBox: AI receipt management using GPT and OCR to automate tasks like finding, downloading, and syncing receipts from Gmail and Outlook.

• Mayday: AI calendar for personalized productivity, optimizing schedules, and managing meetings with AI assistant and smart features.

Hot Takes 🔥

• CSV is a database. The only truly portable and scalable one. ~Bojan Tunguz

• Expertise will be very close to free in a GPT5 or 6 world. More education for the population won't actually help employability in this post-AI world. ~Vinod Khosla

Meme of the Day 🤡

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