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Jack Shields
June 19, 2024
Welcome back!
We’re covering a lot of ground today. AI is popping up everywhere this year, with today’s news ranging from cancer treatment to fast food. Let’s dive straight into…
Today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ OpenAI partners with Color Health to transform cancer care
🤖 Runway introduces Gen-3 Alpha video generator
📸 McDonald’s ends AI drive-thru experiment
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Read time: 2 minutes
TOP STORY
🗞️ OpenAI partners with Color Health to transform cancer care
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OpenAI is partnering with Color Health to accelerate cancer patients’ access to treatment with a new copilot assistant.
What you should know:
Color used GPT-4o to build a new copilot application that creates customized treatment plans for individual patients.
The application essentially pairs specific patient information with broader clinical guidelines and treatment options.
This can reduce the time cancer patients spend waiting for treatment from several weeks to just five minutes.
Color plans to use its copilot application to provide AI-generated personalized care plans to over 200,000 patients in the second half of 2024.
Why it matters: Cancer patients who experience just a four-week delay in treatment face a 6-13% higher risk of mortality. Color’s partnership with OpenAI aims to ensure that each patient receives a swift diagnosis and treatment plan. By pairing the expertise of human physicians with the efficiency of GPT-4o, this copilot application could save lives before the year is over.
AI TOOL OF THE DAY
🤖 Runway introduces Gen-3 Alpha video generator
Screenshot: Runway
Runway just announced Gen-3 Alpha, a significantly improved AI video generator that will be available this week.
Key points:
Gen-3 Alpha is the first of an upcoming series of models trained on a new infrastructure built for large multimodal projects.
Runway says this is a major step toward building General World Models that understand the visual world and its dynamics.
Gen-3 Alpha gives users more control than previous models and boasts improved performance and safeguards across the board.
Runway is also partnering with entertainment and media companies to create customized Gen-3 models.
Why it matters: 2024 has already been a huge year for text-to-video models. Between Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha and OpenAI’s Sora, we’re getting close to AI video generators with real-world applications in entertainment and media.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 McDonald’s ends AI drive-thru experiment
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Earlier this week McDonald’s confirmed that it is ending a global partnership with IBM that tested automated drive-thrus.
The details:
McDonald’s has been testing an “automated order taker” at select drive-thrus since late 2021.
Unnamed sources say IBM’s technology struggled to interpret different accents and dialects, negatively affecting order accuracy.
All automated order technology will be shut off at McDonald’s testing locations by July 26.
Despite ending the IBM partnership, McDonald’s still believes that “a voice ordering solution for drive-thru will be a part of our restaurant’s future.”
The bigger picture: In the short term, this decision will save jobs in the fast food industry, but this isn’t the end of the road for McDonald’s automated drive-thru efforts. The company partnered with Google Cloud late last year to bring generative AI to its key business priorities. On a wider scale, several other brands like Wendy’s, Popeyes, Panera and Arby’s are also working on automated order takers. The technology isn’t ready yet, but automation will hit the fast food industry hard.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Source: NBC News
AI Steve will appear on the ballot for the U.K.’s general election next month. The AI is represented by Sussex businessman Steve Endacott.
Google DeepMind reveals V2A tool that adds realistic audio to any video.
Former Snap engineer launches social media network called “Butterflies” where AIs and humans interact with each other.
TikTok introduces new feature that allows creators to build their own digital avatars.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY