Germany’s New AI Travel Influencer Is A Chatbot Still Working Out Some Kinks

Meet Emma, Germany’s new tourism ambassador. She’s young. She’s beautiful. She’s a polyglot who speaks 20 languages, including English in a posh British accent. She’s on Instagram. And she really loves to travel around her homeland. What she isn’t is real.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2024/10/18/germanys-new-ai-travel-influencer-is-a-chatbot-still-working-out-some-kinks/

Google’s NotebookLM gets even better podcast-like Audio Overviews

Remember that experimental AI-driven podcast feature in NotebookLM we talked about not too long ago? Well, Google is seeing a lot of buzz around this particular tool and they’ve updated NotebookLM in a few very interesting ways.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://chromeunboxed.com/googles-notebooklm-gets-even-better-podcast-like-audio-overviews/

The robot will walk among you

Over the weekend, Elon Musk revealed updates on a bunch of products, like robovans, robotaxis, and self-driving cars. Wall Street didn't believe his timelines, I guess, because Tesla stock immediately dropped 25%.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.understandably.com/p/the-robot-will-walk-among-you

Meet Aria: The New Open Source Multimodal AI That's Rivaling Big Tech

Artificial intelligence just got a new player—and it's fully open-sourced. Aria, a multimodal LLM developed by Tokyo-based Rhymes AI, is capable of processing text, code, images, and video all within a single architecture.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://decrypt.co/286132/aria-new-open-source-multimodal-ai-rivaling-big-tech

I Will Never Use AI To Help Me With My Writing Again

Despite that, I always wanted to be a big writer. So, I started with personal blogs, moved to news, and this year, with books. My first book was a romantic fiction novel that I finished in March of this year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/practice-in-public/why-i-will-never-use-ai-to-help-me-with-my-writing-again-ac6c09009360

How to Say No to Our A.I. Overlords

Big tech brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Meta have all unleashed tech that they describe as artificial intelligence. Soon, the companies say, we’ll all be using A.I. to write emails, generate images and summarize articles. But who asked for any of this in the first place?

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/technology/personaltech/turn-off-ai-overviews-google-meta.html

Nobel Prize winner claims former OpenAI Chief Scientist fired Sam Altman because he "is much less concerned with AI safety than profits" — and suggests superintelligence might be on the horizon : "We have maybe 4 years left"' before human extinction

OpenAI has been in the spotlight for the past few months for varied reasons, including bankruptcy reports with projections of $5 billion in losses within the next 12 months, the mass departure of high-profile officials from the firm including Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and Chief scientist

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/nobel-prize-winner-claims-former-openai-chief-scientist-fired-sam-altman-because-he-is-much-less-concerned-with-ai-safety-than-profits-and-suggests-superintelligence-might-be-on-the-horizon-we-have-maybe-4-years-left-before-human-extinction