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The first international AI Safety Summit kicked off yesterday near London, and global leaders in AI are coming together to tackle the technology’s potentially catastrophic risks.
I’ll also be sharing a user-friendly AI-powered data visualization tool and a leaked AI project from Instagram. Let’s jump in.
In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ US and China pledge to work together at UK summit
🤖 Graphy — AI-powered data visualization
📸 Instagram is developing a customizable AI friend
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
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LATEST NEWS
🗞️ US and China pledge to work together at UK summit
Source: Adobe Firefly
Yesterday 28 nations including the U.S. and China agreed to work together to contain AI’s potentially “catastrophic” risks at the world’s first international AI Safety Summit.
What you need to know:
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris urged Britain and other countries to quickly draft legislation holding tech companies accountable.
Harris said the world needs to address the “full spectrum” of AI risks including cyberattacks, AI-formulated bioweapons and deepfake photos.
Government officials from more than two dozen countries will attend the summit today, which will be followed by a virtual AI summit hosted by South Korea in six months and an in-person one in France a year from now.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to discuss AI with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a streamed conversation later today.
Crucial quote: This is “a landmark achievement that sees the world’s greatest AI powers agree on the urgency behind understanding the risks of AI — helping ensure the long-term future of our children and grandchildren,” Sunak said.
AI TOOL OF THE DAY
🤖 Graphy — AI-powered data visualization
Screenshot: Graphy
Graphy is an AI-powered data visualization tool that turns complex data into clear insights and customizable charts. All graphs can be exported as images or embedded right into your website. Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Select a chart type. Graphy offers bar, line, combo and pie charts as well as funnels and heatmaps.
Step 2: Input your data.
Step 3: Customize your chart (theme, color pallet, borders, etc.).
Optional: Add goals or trends for better insights.
Highly recommend checking this tool out since it’s free to use. Click here to try Graphy.
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 Instagram is developing a customizable AI friend
Source: Alessandro Paluzzi on X
App researcher Alessandro Paluzzi just revealed that Instagram is developing a customizable “AI Friend” feature.
How it works:
Select the age and gender of the chatbot.
Choose the AI’s ethnicity and personality. The AI can be reserved, enthusiastic, creative, witty, pragmatic or empowering.
Further customize the AI by choosing its interests, which will “inform its personality and the nature of its conversations.” Leaked options include DIY, animals, career, education, entertainment, music, nature and more.
Select an avatar and name for your AI friend.
Converse with the AI in a chat window.
The relevance: Last month Meta launched 28 AI chatbots with distinct personalities across Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. Other social platforms like Snapchat have debuted chatbots with mixed results. Personalized AI will likely be commonplace on social media in the near future.
Risk factor: AI chatbots can deceive users into thinking they are interacting with a real person, especially when they are geared toward children and young users. This will only become a more pressing issue when Meta debuts a chatbot designed to facilitate more open-ended conversations.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Source: Apple
Bounce Back: Apple unveils new M3 family of chips.
Crisis Management: Microsoft launches probe after AI-generated poll on woman’s death sparks backlash.
Deepfake Controversy: Scarlett Johansson takes legal action against AI app that cloned her voice for an ad.
Startup Support: New AWS service lets customers rent Nvidia GPUs for quick AI projects.
THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY