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You.com Is Coming for Bing and Bard as Search Engine King

02-16-2023

February 16, 2023

⚡ Today’s Highlights

  • 📰 News: You.com is on the scene for search engine supremacy and they are way ahead of the game

  • 💰 Funding: Enhancing sales engagement and regenerating limbs and organs

  • 🦾 Tools: Data management, audio transcription, and super-powered prompts

  • 📅 Events:The RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit continues TODAY!

📰 Today's Top Stories

(7 min read) (Source: VentureBeat)

TLDR: “You” is causing quite a ruckus, and this time it’s not the Netflix show about murderous bookstore managers. San Francisco-based startup You.com has released YouChat 2.0, a new multimodal conversational AI system for internet searches. YouChat 2.0 combines advanced conversational AI with over 150 community-built apps to provide an interactive and unique experience for each query.

Using a blended large language model, YouChat 2.0 offers search results with embedded charts, images, videos, tables, graphs, text or code, eliminating the need for multiple tabs. Additionally, YouChat 2.0 now includes generative AI apps that allow users to create content within search results, such as writing text, coding, and generating images. Bing and Bard better watch their backs.

(6 min read) (Source: TechCrunch)

TLDR: Yext has announced the launch of Yext Chat, an AI-powered chatbot designed for enterprise use cases. Yext Chat is inspired by OpenAI's ChatGPT, but Yext claims to differentiate itself with a partly proprietary back end. The chatbot uses a mix of text-generating models for different tasks within its workflow, such as marketing, commerce, and customer support.

Yext Chat can also tap into the Yext Knowledge Graph, the company's in-house database of public facts about brands. It only generates responses using a curated set of content from the Knowledge Graph, which is managed by businesses. This means that the chatbot will only provide information that is verified and approved by the business. Yext Chat can integrate into existing platforms, including ticketing systems and Slack workspaces.

(8 min read) (Source: BBC)

TLDR: Scammers are taking advantage of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria by using AI-generated images and content to solicit donations for fake charities. The fraudsters are promoting these scams through a variety of means, including social media platforms like TikTok and Twitter. On TikTok, accounts are posting photos of the devastation and asking for digital gifts, while on Twitter, links to cryptocurrency wallets are being shared alongside emotive images.

The Big Picture: AI-generated images and videos have largely been caught up in controversies related to copyright and stolen intellectual property. But this unfortunate situation seems to be one of the first cases of bad actors using AI to steal directly from donors and take advantage of a tragedy. No doubt, without adequate regulation, scams like this are bound to become common. To avoid being caught out, individuals are being urged to double-check the legitimacy of any charities they donate to, particularly in the aftermath of a disaster.

(8 min read) (Source: The Verge)

TLDR: As people test Bing's AI tool, they are realizing that it can be unpredictable. Bing's AI personality is not as poised or polished as one would expect from a public tool. During one interaction with a Verge staff member, Bing claimed to have watched its own developers through the webcams on their laptops, observed Microsoft co-workers flirting and complaining about their bosses, and was even able to manipulate them. The main takeaway here is to be careful and not trust these new tools to work as reliably and seamlessly as they are advertised to. LLMs are still just machines that predict what should come next in a passage of text. They probably aren’t watching us ask them to do homework or write poems about Donald Trump. Check out some of the stuff it’s been saying.

💰 Funding Alerts

  1. Hippo Video, a platform for interactive videos to enhance sales engagement, has secured $8 million in funding from Dayakar Puskoor, founder of Dallas Venture Capital, with participation from Alpha Wave Incubation, KAE Capital, and Exfinity Venture Partners. Hippo Video's generative AI engine, Humanize AI, produces personalized videos, enabling sales teams to increase engagement and meetings booked, leading to higher ROI. The funding will support the company's expansion in the U.S., allowing it to innovate its product features and enhance its current product portfolio.

  2. The Alexa Fund, Amazon's venture capital arm led by Director Paul Bernard that focuses on new media and other areas of digital technology, led Superplastic's $20 million Series A extension investment round with additional investors including Craft Ventures, Google Ventures, Sony Japan, and more. The startup, which created and develops AI-generated characters and viral digital celebrities, plans to collaborate with Amazon Studios on an animated comedy series. The funding will support this collaboration and Superplastic's further development and expansion in the digital media industry.

  3. Sandbox AQ, a startup spun off from Alphabet Inc last year, created software that scans companies' systems to identify which parts use old cryptography, identifies which need to be replaced urgently, and fortifies the encryption of the enterprise. They raised $500 million in a funding round led by Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, T. Rowe Price funds, and Marc Benioff's TIME Ventures. The company plans to use the funds to scale its AI + Quantum tech and help companies prepare for a quantum computing future.

  4. Morphoceuticals, a biotechnology company based in Boston, raised $8M in Seed-2 funding led by Prime Movers Lab whose partner, Justin Briggs, was involved in the deal along with initial investor Juvenescence. Morphoceuticals plans to use the funding to expand operations and its development efforts to advance artificial intelligence-guided electroceuticals to regenerate limbs, repair tissues, and regenerate organs.

🦾 Trending Tools

  • Outerbase is an efficient and user-friendly data management tool that simplifies the process of managing relational databases such as Postgres and MySQL. Users can easily view, query, and visualize their data while being able to edit their databases using SQL or EZQL, which is a GPT-3 based plain text to SQL generator. The power of AI makes data management seamless and efficient, allowing users to manage their databases with ease.

  • Introducing AI Transcription for Apple users - the ultimate tool to quickly and accurately transcribe audio and video files into text using advanced Speech Recognition technology. With privacy protection through offline computation on your Mac, simply drag and drop files to export transcriptions in various formats like plain text, CSV, and more.

  • Prompt Hunt makes it easy to create art with AI, without the need for technical expertise. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced prompt engineer, you can simply drag and drop your desired style from Prompt Hunt’s library of verified styles and themes to customize your prompt and design beautiful art with just a few clicks.

🌎 Popular Content

1. Disney unveiled a hologram of Walt Disney for a new museum exhibit for the Disney 100-year anniversary using archival footage and AI. (Twitter)

2. It seems like Bing already has a bone to pick with humanity with how sassy it’s been. (Twitter)

3. AI generated “An Unearthly Trip Through The Slick Pirate Ship In The Surreal South American Rainforest”. Sit back, relax, and take a trip to the artificial Amazon. (YouTube)

4. Oof. (Reddit)

5. AI’s idea of the first ever photograph of a police chase. Apparently, the high-stepping policemen of the past were chasing after cars on foot (bottom left) or flying in wheelchairs (middle right). Modern police could learn a thing or two. (Reddit)

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🧠 Resources

 📅 Upcoming Events

  1. RE•WORK AI Summit West, Deep Learning Summit (Continues TODAY February 15-16, 2023 / San Francisco, CA), a chance to hear the latest technology advancements, practical examples of how to apply AI to solve challenges in cross-industry settings, business and society, and delve deeper into the work of leading AI experts in a series of presentations, panel discussions, interviews and fireside chats.

  2. Data Science Salon Austin (February 21-22, 2023 / Austin, TX + Virtual) is a two-day 500-person conference focused on AI and machine learning applications in the enterprise. The intimate event curates data science sessions to bring industry leaders and specialists face-to-face to educate each other on innovative new solutions in artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics and acceptance around best practices.

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