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Can AI actually be used for good? 🤔
✅ Ethical use cases of AI for good, massive ChatGPT leaks, chatting with your documents, and more
Everyday AI
November 06, 2023
Outsmart The Future
Today in Everyday AI
6 minute read
🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Can AI actually be used for good? We asked one of the leading voices in the world this question. You won’t wanna miss the answers. Give it a listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: An audio guide AI app for tourists, Instagram’s leaked customizable AI, and a new 3D GenAI model. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Massive ChatGPT leaks ahead of Dev Day announcement, Elon Musk’s new AI bot, and an AI robot CEO. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.
🚀 AI In 5: Wanna speed up your work with documents? We’re showing you how you can talk directly to your documents with AI. See it here
🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: So is AI really all bad? How can we use AI for good? Let’s break it down. Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about the future role of creators with AI, Elon Musk says AI will eliminate all jobs, Brave browser adds its own chatbot, and creating branded images with DALL-E 3. Check it here!
AI for Good - Strategies for Ethical and Sustainable AI Development 👏
Can AI actually be used for good?
It’s the number one question associated with AI.
(Well, after that whole ‘Will it take my job!?’ query.)
One of the biggest misconceptions around AI is the fear that it'll take over everything and only cause destruction.
But what can AI do to help us?
Mark Minevich, a UN advisor, Chief Digital AI Strategist, and Global Social Innovation Technology Executive & Chair President at Going Global Ventures Inc., joins us to discuss strategies for ethical and sustainable AI development.
Join the conversation and ask Mark and Jordan any questions about ethical AI.
Also on the pod today:
• Use cases of AI helping society 🙌
• Challenges governments face in implementing AI 🏛
• Programs around global focus on responsible AI 🤖
It’ll be worth your 34 minutes:
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – Touring is an audio guide AI app for tourists, aiCarousels lets you create social media carousels, and Grok is Elon Musk’s new conversational AI.
Social Media – New reports show that Instagram may be releasing an AI friend soon.
Trending in AI - Luma AI’s new Genie 3D GenAI mode is impressing a lot of people.
AI in Education – With the help of NVIDIA’s cofounder, the University of Florida has opened a $150M tech center.
Money in AI– A Chinese startup that has been valued at $1B in just eight months, just released its open source model.
1. OpenAI's ChatGPT Updates Leaked Ahead of Conference 🤯
OpenAI is set to unveil significant updates to ChatGPT at its developer conference on November 6th. Leaked details reveal features like custom chatbots, a business subscription, and integrations with Google and Microsoft. The Gizmo V8 interface, designed for creating and managing custom chatbots, is among the anticipated announcements.
2. Elon Musk’s New AI Chatbot, Grok 🚀
Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI has launched its first AI chatbot called Grok. This first version is considered a prototype and only available to a select group before its public release. Grok is positioned to compete with major giants like OpenAI, Inflection, Anthropic and others. One of its biggest differentiators is real-time access to data from X, formerly known as Twitter.
3. World’s First CEO AI Robot 🤖
A major rum and spirits producer, Dictador, has just announced its new AI robot CEO. Named Mika, this AI bot is a research project between Hanson Robotics and Dictador. This robot CEO has been customized to represent the company’s values. Mika is capable of making data driven decisions based on the company’s performance.
4. Runway’s Gen-2 AI Video updates
Runway ML has released an update to its Gen-2 video generator that significantly improves the fidelity and consistency of video results. These new updates include a higher resolution and better handling of images. The Head of Creative at Runway, states that “Gen-2 is a new kind of camera. It didn't exist 5 months ago.”
5. Google Demos New Image Generation AI Model 🖼
Google has partnered with researchers at UC Berkeley to create a new method for image generation that could replace the current diffusion models. This new generative model, called "Idempotent Generative Networks" (IGNs), learns through training to generate a suitable image from any form of input in a single step.
Chat with your documents! Summaverse Review 📑
Want to speed up your work with documents?
Did you know there’s ways to actually talk to your documents to get what you need more quickly?
Summaverse transforms the way we engage with written content by allowing users to upload, summarize, and chat with their documents.
We’re checking it out and seeing just how good it is.
Check out today's AI in 5.
🤷♂️ What’s Going On and Why It Matters:
AI’s not all bad robots taking our jobs.
Nah.
Actually, artificial intelligence can actually help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.
While we normally tackle how Generative AI can help grow your company or career, today we zoomed out.
Like — way out.
Today we were lucky to talk with Mark Minevich, whose accomplishments and involvement in the AI space are legit longer than this newsletter.
As a best-selling author, AI advocate, UN advisor, Co-Chair of AI for the Planet Alliance (and so much more), Mark brings an in-depth and well-rounded perspective on how to use AI for good.
If you missed today’s episode, we cannot exaggerate this enough — go give it a watch/listen!
Mark’s energy negated the need for much morning coffee. Or maybe we needed a bit more to jot down all the hot takes? ☕
What did we learn?
A whole lot on using AI for good, the importance of governance in AI development, and balancing AI-lead job creation and AI-lead job displacement.
What else?
Government and private sector responsibility in providing digital education to everyone in urban cities
Providing safe, secure, trustworthy, and fair AI
Lack of digital capacity and the need for preparation for the new economy
Competition between countries like the US, European Union, and China for AI dominance
Significant increase in AI funding, with examples of equity funding and AI unicorns
Advocacy for capital to go into AI for good and social innovation
…. and a WHOLE lot more!
Today’s episode is a hotbed for facts, problems and solutions.
Let’s get after it. 👇
🦾How You Can Leverage:
Let’s get this one outta the way, y’all — today’s episode is nearly impossible to recap.
Mark has an extensive background and is helping shape the global conversation on using AI for good.
And while we covered a host of topics, here’s our favorite takeaways to work toward using AI for good.
1 – Sustainability > Efficiency ✅️
To be honest, we’re in this column all the time. One of the most rewarding aspects of AI is it can help us become better at our jobs, saving us money and time.
Efficiency has become the name of the game.
Not so fast, Mark said. If the majority of corporations are only focused on efficiencies, then that can place profit above all else. Instead, Mark suggested it’s important to focus on sustainability.
Try this:
By shifting the focus from purely corporate efficiencies to sustainable solutions, we can create a positive impact on society and the planet as a whole.
Go check out some projects that focus on sustainability from AI For Good, which Mark serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee.
2 – Smarter cities = better planet 🌎
Remember when we said we’d zoom out on this one? We weren’t joking y’all. Many of us experience AI at the keyboard level. Like… whoa! Check what this AI made.
But what if we take a planet-level view of artificial intelligence? One way to combat the climate crisis is to use AI to create smarter cities.
Try this:
Oh, you really wanna dive deep on this one? Then go check out Mark’s newly released book, Our Planet Powered by AI.
3 – We can all use AI for good 💪
Sure, Mark probably has a little more sway than some of us when it comes to using AI for good.
But we all can.
How?
Mark kept it simple — use AI daily and use it for good.
Try this: Stop simply reading or watching about Generative AI. Instead, start using it daily. Mark encouraged people to use Generative AI tools daily and put them to practice. Learn new skills so that you and your company stay relevant in an ever-changing world.
Mark mentioned that AI is 10% generative AI and 20% technology, with the remaining 70% focused on collaboration, culture, applications, and solutions. So, use AI so you can focus on that 70%.
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