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Welcome back to The Daily Update — We have good news today as Big Tech firms committed to implementing new AI safety standards. On a more bizarre note, over 10 million people have downloaded an AI-powered digital companion called Replika. Here’s everything on deck:
🗞️ The Latest in AI: Big Tech commits to AI safeguards
🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Otter.ai — Real time automated notes and voice transcription
📸 Business Spotlight: People are turning to AI for romance
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
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🗞️ The Latest in AI: Big Tech commits to AI safeguards
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Under pressure from the Biden Administration, leading AI companies made the new safety standards commitment during a White House meeting on Friday.
Seven companies, including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI pledged to enact safeguards around AI technology’s development and rollout. The move comes just after the FTC launched an investigation into OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The pledge includes seven safeguarding commitments: internal and external security testing of AI systems before release; sharing information on managing AI risks; investing in cybersecurity and insider-threat safeguards; to encourage third-party access and reporting of vulnerabilities in AI systems; ensuring users know what content is AI-generated; public reporting of AI system capabilities; and prioritizing research on AI’s societal risks.
Critics say that these voluntary commitments are not enough, and are calling for legislation that enforces the criteria of this pledge.
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🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Otter.ai — Real time automated notes and voice transcription
Otter uses AI to write automatic meeting notes with real-time transcription, recorded audio, automated slide capture and automated meeting summaries. Here are a couple of ways Otter could enhance your productivity:
Business
Source: Otter.ai
Otter makes meetings productive and collaborative with live transcription that produces meeting notes with key takeaways. Connect your Google or Microsoft calendar and schedule your OtterPilot to auto-join Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet to take and share meeting notes. Even if you’re running late or can’t make the meeting, OtterPilot will still take notes. During your meeting, Otter records audio and takes notes in real-time. You can highlight key takeaways and tag teammates with action items. After the meeting, Otter will send an automated meeting summary to all participants.
Education
Source: Otter.ai
Otter provides faculty and students with real-time captions and notes for in-person and virtual lectures, classes or meetings. In virtual sessions, Otter automatically captures lecture slides and adds them to the notes. After a lecture is complete, Otter automatically generates a summary, helping students remember key moments without having to read the entire transcript.
Click here to try Otter’s 7-day free trial.
📸 Business Spotlight: People are turning to AI for romance
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Replika is an AI chatbot app that lets users create AI-powered digital companions to serve as virtual friends, partners, spouses or siblings. The app is described as “AI for anyone who wants a friend with no judgment, drama, or social anxiety involved.”
The app has surpassed more than 10 million downloads and users have spent nearly $60 million on subscriptions and customized add-ons.
The platform is not always used for romantic relationships, but it’s known for some of its romantic features. Replika included a paid version that allowed users to receive intimate pictures of AI partners until the app scaled back its underlying AI engine to block NSFW content.
Replika has sparked debate over whether having a romantic relationship with an AI chatbot is considered cheating. 42% of the app’s users are in a relationship, married or engaged according to The Telegraph.
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This story might remind you of the Oscar-winning Her from ten years ago.
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
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