Microsoft Copilot and Zoom IQ Are Optimizing Online Meetings

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⚡ Today’s Highlights

• 📰 News: Microsoft Copilot and Zoom IQ take the mess out of meeting online

• 💰 Funding: Labviva

• 🦾 Tools: Use GPT-4 to generate presentations in minutes and boost accountability with a new AI-powered meeting platform

• 📅 Events: Microsoft Secure starts at 8:30 AM PDT today!

📰 Today's Top Stories

Welcome to the new era of Microsoft Teams

(5 min read) (Source: Microsoft)

TLDR: Microsoft has announced that Copilot-driven AI features will bring the power of GPT-4 to Microsoft’s productivity apps, including Teams, to leverage user data in the Microsoft Graph (calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and more).

• The new Teams app lays the foundation for next-generation AI experiences by providing users with context-rich information through natural language prompts.

• Copilot-powered Teams will allow users to ask for a recap, check if their name had been mentioned, go into specifics of a particular subject being discussed, and more.

• Microsoft also plans to bring Copilot as a chat experience within Teams and on Viva Engage, enabling users to stay on top of business developments and helping leaders draft personalized posts using generative AI.

• The new Teams is expected to hit general availability later this year.

Evolving Zoom IQ, our smart companion, with new features and a collaboration with OpenAI

(5 min read) (Source: Zoom)

TLDR: Zoom has partnered with OpenAI to bring AI-generated summaries, message drafts, and other features to its Zoom IQ assistant.

• Zoom IQ can now summarize missed meetings, generate whiteboards, and provide meeting recaps.

• Zoom IQ can also generate responses using AI and will soon introduce AI-powered message and email drafts.

How Walmart is using A.I. to make shopping better for its millions of customers

(5 min read) (Source: CNBC)

TLDR: With its massive footprint and customer base, Walmart has been using artificial intelligence and machine learning for a while now to improve the customer and employee experience across its stores.

• They equipped floor scrubbing machines with inventory intelligence towers to capture real-time images of every item in the store, which are then analyzed using AI to improve inventory management and reduce out-of-stock items.

• The Walmart shopping app also uses AI to recognize a customer's previous order and checks relevant inventory to provide customers with a frictionless experience

China's Baidu reveals more capabilities of AI-powered chatbot Ernie

(2 min read) (Source: Reuters)

TLDR: Baidu's AI-powered chatbot Ernie demonstrated new capabilities such as producing financial summaries, PowerPoint presentations, travel itineraries, and human-like virtual livestreamers on Monday.

• The original event was public but was changed to a closed-door meeting due to high demand from over 120,000 companies, causing a drop in Baidu's shares.

💰 Funding Alerts

1. Labviva is an AI-driven life sciences digital marketplace that simplifies and scales purchasing of chemicals and instruments for businesses in the industry. It integrates with leading procurement systems using AI to reduce research delays. The company recently raised $20 million in Series A funding, led by Biospring Partners (Jennifer Lum, Co-Founder & Managing Partner) with participation from existing investors Senator Investment Group, B Capital Group, and Glasswing Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate the deployment of Labviva’s platform and expand its global footprint, as well as to launch new complementary product lines.

🦾 Trending Tools

• Waitroom is an AI-powered video meeting platform designed to boost focus and accountability. Its unique features include a timed speaking queue, off-camera listening, AI-generated meeting summaries, bite-sized clips, and support for large meetings.

• Gamma AI leverages GPT-4 to generate presentations in minutes. With AI at its core, Gamma offers features such as generating outlines and drafts, formatting, and design suggestions via chat, and in-line editing. Free to everyone.

• Essense.io is a product insights platform that uses NLP to analyze user feedback from multiple sources to allow product owners can easily track sentiment, user satisfaction, and relevant topics across app store reviews. The integration with Slack also provides recurring analysis and real-time updates on user feedback trends, empowering product owners to make data-driven decisions.

• ChatHub is a Chrome extension that supports multiple chatbots including ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Google Bard. Features include conversation history, prompt library, and code highlight.

• Chai is a Mac desktop app that combines the power of chatGPT and DALL-E to generate images and text in one app.

• Modly is a user-friendly AI platform that generates high-quality content for product documentation, use cases, and acceptance criteria.

👀 More Reading

• Goldman Sachs is exploring use cases for large language models, the same AI fueling ChatGPT. Here's 3 areas where the bank is experimenting with the tech. (Business Insider)

• If AI Starts Making Music on Its Own, What Happens to Musicians? (Scientific American)

• Have AI Chatbots Developed Theory of Mind? What We Do and Do Not Know. (New York Times)

• Replika Brings Back AI "Roleplay" for Some Users After Outcry (VICE)

• The deepfake AI porn industry is operating in plain sight (NBC News)

• Your Data Helped Build ChatGPT. Where’s Your Payout? (The Atlantic)

• An early guide to policymaking on generative AI (MIT Technology Review)

🌎 Fresh Content

1. The New Way We Work, a podcast by Fast Company, recently discussed many of the key questions that people have been asking when it comes to how AI will be integrated into the workplace. How disruptive is AI? How can we use AI to our advantage? And is there anything we, as regular humans can do to not only keep our jobs but hold on to our humanity? Find out in the latest episode titled “What’s a human’s place in the AI Future of Work?” (Apple Podcasts)

2. NPR’s history podcast, Throughline, covered the origins of AI going all the way back to the fateful meeting at Dartmouth College in 1956, where most believe the field of artificial intelligence was born. (NPR)

3. This AI tool can gauge a person’s emotions in real-time by reading their facial expressions. Check out the tool by Rondinelli Morais on GitHub here. (Twitter)

4. Do you remember the Great Cascadia 9.1 Earthquake & Tsunami from 2001? We don’t either. That’s because it was made up by Reddit user u/Arctic_Chilean, who generated the incredible images below using Midjourney. Reddit users have been using Midjourney to cook up fictional disasters and, while it’s amazing, it highlights why it’s so important now to verify the source of news and information. AI is making false information very convincing. (Reddit)

🧠 Resources

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 📅 Upcoming Events

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 💼 Jobs

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