🚀 Amazon’s Alexa Will Have A Generative AI

& MIT Scholars To Probe The Social Implications Of AI

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Mia W.
September 20, 2023

Today’s AI Rundown Includes:

 📈 What’s Hot: Amazon’s Alexa Will Have A Generative AI

💡 Must Know: ChatGPT Prompt for Podcast Interview Questions

🧠 News Today: MIT Scholars To Probe The Social Implications Of AI

Read Time: 3 Mins

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On this Day In Tech…

September 20, 1989: Macintosh Portable Release Date

The Macintosh Portable is a laptop designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from September 1989 to October 1991. It is the first battery-powered Macintosh, which garnered significant excitement from critics, but sales to customers were quite low.

Amazon’s Alexa Will Have a Generative AI

The Gist Of It: Amazon unveiled a new Generative AI Model designed to enhance the voice interactions across its Echo Device lineup during a press event this morning at its HQ2 headquarters in Alrington, VA.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

  • This model aims to offer more conversational experiences, incorporating body language interpretation, eye contact recognition, and gestures

  • It can interact with APIs to enable smart home features and deduce context from descriptions

  • It also aims to present a more expressive Alexa personality

  • Customers in the U.S. will soon access these capabilities through a free preview on their existing Echo devices

Chat GPT Prompt For IG Reels

Prompt: Copy & Paste below

Write me a list of 10 key questions we should ask [guest] about their work in [industry/field]?

Microsoft’s Special Surface & AI Event

Image: WinFuture

Microsoft is hosting a "special event" in New York City expected to feature the debut of three new Surface devices and AI-powered features for Windows, Office, Bing, and more.

The event will kick off at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET on Thursday, September 21st. Expected announcements include the Surface Laptop Studio 2, Surface Go 4, Surface Laptop Go 3, and AI-powered features for Windows, such as Windows Copilot.

AI features are also anticipated for Surface devices, with the potential inclusion of dedicated neural processing units (NPUs). Microsoft may also share details about Copilot plans for Microsoft 365 and Office apps and updates to Bing Chat, including a preview exit date for Bing Chat Enterpris

MIT Scholars Get Seed Grants To Research The Social Implications Of AI

MIT has awarded seed grants to 27 finalists from across its schools to explore the social implications of generative AI.

These projects will investigate the technology's impact on various domains, including democracy, education, sustainability, and more.

Each research group will receive funding to create 10-page impact papers that delve into the transformative potential of generative AI, both positive and negative, for society.

The papers will be made publicly available via the MIT Press and MIT Libraries.

🦾 TODAY’S DOSE OF AI GLOSSARY

Tokenization - The process of breaking text into individual words or subwords to input them into a language model. Example: Tokenizing a sentence "I am ChatGPT" into the words: “I,” “am,” “Chat,” “G,” and “PT.”

Supervised Learning - A type of machine learning in which a model is trained on labeled data to make predictions about new, unseen data. Example: A supervised learning algorithm that can classify images of handwritten digits based on labeled training

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