ChatGPT & AI News

Sam Altman on what you need to do to survive in the age of artificial intelligence. "You are about to enter the greatest golden age of human possibility..." To thrive in that world, the skills that matter most are: - Deep familiarity with the tools - Staying abreast of changes - Developing a great intuition for AI tools, where things are going, and how to make use of it - Resilience and the ability to learn things fast and evolve yourself with technology @ChatGPT_News_Ai

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs just introduced the world's first AI diplomat, ‘Victoriya Shi’. The new spokesperson is an AI-generated avatar that will deliver pre-prepared official statements on behalf of the ministry. @ChatGPT_News_Ai

Apple has been quietly operating a secretive AI research facility in Switzerland known as the "Zurich Vision Lab." The company has reportedly poached at least 36 AI experts, primarily from Google. @ChatGPT_News_Ai

Microsoft is investing $1.7B in Indonesia’s AI and cloud infrastructure. Notably, the investment will include AI training for 840,000 people, as well as support for Indonesia’s growing community of tech developers. AI upskilling is going global. @ChatGPT_News_Ai

Google just introduced Med-Gemini, a suite of AI models fine-tuned for healthcare questions. Based on benchmarks, Med-Gemini outperforms top models (including GPT-4) on 10 out of 14 medical tasks. @ChatGPT_News_Ai

Amazon just announced Q, the company’s enterprise AI assistant. The announcements also come alongside Q for Developers, Q for Business, and a new feature that allows users to create AI apps from prompts using company data. @ChatGPT_News_Ai

Chinese startup Stardust unveiled Astribot S1. It's an AI humanoid robot capable of performing household tasks like cooking, folding, sorting, and vacuuming. The company aims for the bots to be comercially available by the end of 2024. @ChatGPT_News_Ai

ShengShu just introduced Vidu, a text-to-video AI model that competes with OpenAI’s Sora. While it feels like a stretch to call this a true ‘rival’ (16-second vs. 60-second generations feels like a big gap), China’s AI models continue to gain on U.S. leaders. @ChatGPT_News_Ai

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is revisiting conversations with OpenAI. The two are negotiating terms for a potential partnership that would see OpenAI’s features integrated into iOS 18. This could easily be the next 'ChatGPT moment' for major AI adoption. @ChatGPT_News_Ai

Wild. AI avatars can now interpret text automatically. Synthesia just released a new diffusion model called EXPRESS-1, which allows AI avatars to understand a script and adjust performance on the spot. @ChatGPT_News_Ai