Snapchat AI goes rogue

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: Snapchat AI goes rogue

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: checklist.gg — AI-driven checklist management

📸 Industry Spotlight: Brain recordings reconstruct a Pink Floyd song

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: Snapchat AI goes rogue

Snapchat’s personalized chatbot disturbed users on Tuesday with a creepy glitch. The “My AI” chatbot posted a bizarre video of a wall and ceiling to its public story and then stopped responding to users’ messages.

What happened:

• The ChatGPT-powered bot posted a strange video to its story that scared users.

• My AI went offline after posting, leaving some users panicked that it posted images of their own homes.

• Snap confirmed that the incident was just a glitch.

My thoughts: This is a bad look for AI. The incident is primed for clickbait and speculation about AI developing self-awareness. It seems like Snapchat’s chatbot was not worth the investment.

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🤖 AI Tool of the Day: checklist.gg — AI-driven checklist management

checklist.gg uses GPT to assist you and your team with task and workflow management. The platform can create checklists from text prompts, documents, URL and large text. You can also use an AI agent that will research industry standards before building your checklist.

If you aren’t satisfied with your checklist, it’s easy to delete tasks and add new ones. Users can also invite teammates to the platform and write descriptions for each task.

This platform is pretty straightforward. If you’re looking to improve your team’s task management and workflow, checklist.gg is a great tool to check out.

Click here to try checklist.gg for free.

📸 Industry Spotlight: Brain recordings reconstruct a Pink Floyd song

UC Berkeley neuroscientists just used iEEG brain recordings and AI to recreate Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” from brain activity. This is a huge breakthrough in neuro research.

Listen to the output here.

Key points:

• Researchers recorded the activity of electrodes placed on the brains of epilepsy patients listening to the song.

• AI software reconstructed the song’s rhythms, vocals and lyrics from the brain waves.

• The reconstructed song is muffled but decipherable.

• The findings help capture the electrical activity of brain regions processing musical elements.

The bottom line: This is a huge leap towards helping patients with ALS and other neurological disorders better communicate. The breakthrough could lead to improved brain implants that can capture the rhythm and intonation of speech.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• AI design tools: Adobe Express (one of my favorite AI tools) gets AI upgrades.

• AI for good: Microsoft’s AI recommends the Ottawa Food Bank as a tourist destination.

• Hollywood strike: 96% of entertainment companies are boosting their generative AI spend.

• AI analytics: Rasgo launches Rasgo AI, a generative AI agent for enterprise data warehouse analytics.

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Jack

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