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💥 OpenAI releases o1 model with human-like reasoning
🤖 Google AI teaches robots to tie shoelaces
🧠 Chatbots may reduce conspiracy beliefs, study shows
🚨 Meta teams up with Snap and TikTok to address self-harm content
🎧 FDA clears Apple’s AirPods Pro to act as your hearing aids
🛍 Amazon's AI chatbot starts pushing ads
🎁 + 8 other news you might like
🔮 + 1 handpicked research papers and tools
💥 OpenAI releases o1 model with human-like reasoningLINK
OpenAI has unveiled o1, a new generative AI model family, with two variants initially available: o1-preview and o1-mini, designed for enhanced fact-checking and code generation, respectively.
o1 models are accessible to ChatGPT Plus or Team subscribers, and they offer improved reasoning capabilities by thoroughly considering all parts of a query before responding, resulting in better performance on complex tasks.
Despite its advanced features, o1 comes with significant cost and speed drawbacks, being slower and more expensive than previous models, with ongoing issues such as hallucinations and occasional inaccuracies.
🤖 Google AI teaches robots to tie shoelacesLINK
Google DeepMind announced that it taught a robot to tie a shoe, but the robot's shoe-tying skills are still very poor.
The robot uses bi-arm manipulation and is powered by two AI systems, ALOHA Unleashed and DemoStart, to perform complex tasks.
Many companies are developing robots to handle human-like tasks, with shoe-tying being a significant test of a robot’s capabilities.
🧠 Chatbots may reduce conspiracy beliefs, study showsLINK
Researchers from MIT Sloan and Cornell University found that AI chatbots can reduce belief in conspiracy theories by about 20%, even among individuals who consider these beliefs important to their identity.
The study, published in Science, involved 2,190 participants who engaged in conversations with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo, which provided tailored counterarguments to their conspiracy theories.
The research demonstrated that participants experienced a significant decrease in their confidence regarding conspiracy theories, highlighting the effectiveness of chatbots in changing minds with evidence-based arguments.
🚨 Meta teams up with Snap and TikTok to address self-harm contentLINK
Meta, Snap, and TikTok have launched a program called Thrive to prevent the spread of self-harm and suicide content by sharing alert signals across platforms.
Thrive, developed with the Mental Health Coalition, uses secure cross-platform technology from Meta to share hashes of violating media, building on methods from the Lantern program against child abuse.
Meta claims it has already reduced visibility of such harmful content while allowing discussions around mental health, with millions of posts addressed quarterly and some restored after appeals.
🎧 FDA clears Apple’s AirPods Pro to act as your hearing aidsLINK
The U.S. FDA authorized Apple's AirPods Pro to function as an over-the-counter hearing aid device, marking the first software-based solution for hearing assistance integrated into existing consumer products.
The AirPods Pro 2 will receive a software update this fall, enabling features that help users with mild to moderate hearing impairments by creating personalized listening profiles through tests conducted on an iPhone.
A clinical study involving 118 participants with mild to moderate hearing loss showed that Apple's self-fitting hearing aid feature provided similar benefits to professional fittings, and the FDA found no adverse effects from using the new AirPods software.
🛍 Amazon's AI chatbot starts pushing adsLINK
Amazon's AI-powered shopping assistant, Rufus, is designed to help users navigate the extensive range of products on Amazon's website, now including some advertisements in its recommendations, as initially reported by Adweek.
Rufus generates product suggestions based on Amazon’s extensive catalog, customer reviews, and community Q&As, while also integrating ads into these conversations to help users discover more products in a seamless manner.
Although Rufus remains experimental, Amazon aims to ensure that sponsored suggestions remain relevant and contextually appropriate, minimizing the risk of irrelevant advertisements while potentially revolutionizing online advertising with this new approach.
Other news you might like
Meta reignites plans to train AI using UK users’ public Facebook and Instagram posts.LINK
The 'godmother of AI' just raised $230 million for her AI startup.LINK
MongoDB CEO says if AI hype were the dotcom boom it is 1996.LINK
Salesforce unveils its vision of AI agents to help every business.LINK
The music industry's latest problem: Archive hard drives from the 90s are failing.LINK
X rival Cohost to shut down due to financial constraints.LINK
Biden administration targets Shein, Temu, and Alibaba for 'abuse' of trade loopholes.LINK
Unity finally does away with its Runtime Fee for game developers.LINK
Latest research and tools
FlowTracker: a tool for tracking and visualizing how data moves through Java programs, helping to understand their behavior and output by mapping inputs to outputs, showcased through the Spring PetClinic demo application.LINK
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