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🗼This week in AI: The OpenAI Drama
Amazon lays off employees in Alexa Microsoft's influence in OpenAI's future decisions.
This AI newsletter covers major tech advancements: Meta's new AI editing tools for Facebook and Instagram, Amazon's shift from Alexa to Generative AI, the evolving landscape at OpenAI, Microsoft's potential role in OpenAI's board, AI's increasing role in finance and PC market growth, and innovative AI tools like Zentask.ai, Mailecho, and Instanews. It also features Kate Kallot's Amini project in Africa and explores the concept of Transfer Learning Cascades in AI development.
AI NEWS 🗞️
The OpenAI Drama: Sam Altman and the struggle for AI’s future. In the tumultuous world of artificial intelligence, the startup OpenAI, a pioneering force in generative AI, finds itself at a crossroads. (Link)
Meta teases new AI-powered editing tools coming to Facebook and Instagram. Users will be able to edit images and generate video clips using text descriptions, courtesy of Meta’s Emu AI model. (Link)
Microsoft eyes seat on OpenAI's revamped board. Microsoft could either take a seat on OpenAI's board of directors, or as a board observer without voting power, the report added. (Link)
Amazon lays off employees in Alexa team as their focus shifts to Generative AI. Amazon is reducing its workforce in the division responsible for its voice assistant Alexa as it focuses more on artificial intelligence. (Link)
Wall Street banks want AI to write performance reviews. Wall Street banks are turning to AI to streamline processes like writing performance reviews. (Link)
HP CEO says AI capabilities will double the growth of the PC category. HP Inc CEO Enrique Lores discussed how his company’s new computers with AI capabilities will help grow the PC market in an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer. (Link)
3 TOOLS 🔧
Zentask.ai is an AI-powered LinkedIn assistant and automation tool. It helps you identify viral and popular posts, write LinkedIn content, and then analyse the results.
Mailecho is an AI tool for Gmail, sends text alerts for urgent emails, ensuring users stay informed on the go. It offers customizable filters, prioritizes important messages, and provides efficient message summarization. With a focus on user privacy, MailEcho offers diverse pricing plans for seamless email management.
Instanews is an AI service that transforms Instagram posts into website-ready news articles, enhancing SEO and user engagement. It automates content creation, previewing, and publishing, offering control to website owners. Ideal for influencers and businesses, it streamlines online presence and content strategy.
3 PROCESSES 💡
Taplio is an AI-powered LinkedIn assistant and automation tool. It helps you identify viral and popular posts, write LinkedIn content, and then analyse the results.
How to Post Commentary in the top Industry News
Choose news: Taplio already suggested a few relevant news and how to mention them and generated some quick posts.
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Choose action: Agree, disagree, or edit & post
Then, choose whether you agree, disagree, or want to edit the post. They will be using GPT-4 to write a relevant post, ready for scheduling to LinkedIn.
Taplio generates a post for you in a few seconds.
Edit The Content
Schedule The Post: You have the option to post it immediately, or schedule it for later.
Learn more here
Grammarly is an AI-powered copy-editing platform that gives marketers the confidence to publish content without stressing over annoying typos. The free version helps with basic spelling and grammar issues, but Grammarly’s paid plans go to a new level. It can reword, rewrite, and restructure whole sentences that would make your high school English teacher proud.
How do I use my personal dictionary?
With Grammarly’s personal dictionary feature, you can make sure that unique words in your lexicon won’t be flagged as misspelled.
If you’d like to stop flagging a particular spelling as incorrect, you can add the word to your personal dictionary by clicking the Add to dictionary button on the suggestion card:
To manage your personal dictionary, sign in to your account, go to Account, and then select Customize:
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Here you can add or remove words:
To add a word, enter it in the corresponding field in the Customize menu and click Add.
To remove a word from your personal dictionary, hover over the word that you wish to remove and click on the trash can icon that will appear next to it.
Keep in mind that only the words containing the English language letters, hyphens, and some other symbols can be added to your personal dictionary.
Learn more here
Zaplify is a sales platform that automates prospecting through LinkedIn and email, connecting users with over 600 million decision-makers. It emphasizes social warm outreach, replaces cold methods, and provides CRM integrations, statistics, and insights for tracking sales activities. The platform offers a free plan with monthly credits to unlock prospect details.
How to Search for Prospects
Create a new campaign or Add Prospects to an existing campaign
Choose the Prospect Search option to find new prospects.
Add desired filters in the left sidebar and watch the resulting prospects on the right. If you only want to limit the results to one prospect per company, select the "Show 1 prospect/company" switch at the top of the filter panel. If there are more prospects in a company than what is displayed, press "Show more" to display 20 more prospects in the company.
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To add one or more prospects to your campaign, select them by using the checkboxes and clicking the "Unlock & Add" button on top of the prospects. If you only want to add one prospect, you can click on the "Unlock & Add" button on the prospect row. Adding a prospect to the campaign will unlock the details, and cost you 1 credit.
Learn more here
AI CHAMPIONS 🏆
Tushita Gupta - CTO and Co-Founder, Refiberd
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Refiberd, co-founded by Tushita Gupta, recently raised over $3.4 million in seed funding and is conducting pilot projects in the U.S. and Europe for textile recycling. The company, notable for its innovative AI technology developed by Gupta, is processing hundreds of pounds of textile waste from various companies. Beyond environmental goals, Refiberd is pioneering cultural change in the tech industry, being a woman-led company with a majority of female employees and an all-women board. Gupta emphasizes the significance of this, aiming to challenge industry norms and foster an inclusive culture.
Learn more here
THE NERD CORNER 🤓
Ever heard of Transfer Learning Cascades (TLC) in AI? It's like a knowledge waterfall! Imagine starting with a broad AI model trained on diverse data. TLC takes this model and fine-tunes it through multiple stages, each focusing on specific datasets related to the task at hand. It's a cascade of learning, with each stage becoming a specialist in a more refined domain. This approach leverages the wealth of pre-trained knowledge while tailoring it for specialized tasks, making it a powerful strategy in the AI world. Exploring Transfer Learning Cascades unveils the intricate ways researchers optimize models for real-world challenges. Cool, right?
WEBINAR 📣
In our continuous commitment to empowering businesses with AI, we're excited to host an exclusive webinar focused on mastering a successful AI strategy in real estate and proptech.
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If you're at the forefront of the real estate industry, join us to uncover how to fully harness AI's potential and transform your business with its impactful innovations.
IN CULTURE 🤌
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