Google’s recent AI meeting note-taker

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

Google’s recent AI feature can now take notes for you during meetings, making human note-takers a thing of our prehistoric, non-AI past.

But with the feature directly difficult several AI startups, is any AI wrapper protected from Big Tech’s AI dominance? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Google Meet adds recent note-taking AI

• AGI one step closer with supercomputers

• Try Gemini 1.5 Pro ‘Experimental‘ without cost

• FCC cracks down on AI voice calls

• 6 recent AI tools & 4 recent AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

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GOOGLE

📝 Google Meet adds recent note-taking AI

The Rundown: Google is rolling out a brand new “Take notes for me” feature powered by its Gemini AI for it’s Google Meet feature, allowing users to concentrate on the meeting while the AI robotically captures key points.

The main points:

• The AI-powered tool will robotically take notes during Google Meet calls, reducing the necessity for manual note-taking.

• The feature is powered by Google’s Gemini AI and shall be available to Workspace customers with specific add-ons.

• “Take notes for me” is a component of the AI Meetings and Messaging add-on, which costs $10 per user/month across most Google Workspace plans.

• Admins can configure the feature’s availability through the Google Workspace Admin console.

Why it matters: Taking notes during meetings will soon be a thing from our prehistoric, non-AI past — with Google pushing for a more practical, AI-assisted way forward for work. Alongside this, the tech giant is directly competing against smaller AI startups resembling Otter AI and Fireflies who’ve thrived by selling an almost equivalent features to users.

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SINGULARITYNET

🧠 AGI one step closer with supercomputers

The Rundown: SingularityNET is launching a worldwide network of supercomputers to host and train the architectures required for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with the primary node coming online as early as September.

The main points:

• The network will use advanced hardware including Nvidia GPUs and AMD processors to create a “multi-level cognitive computing network.”

• SingularityNET’s OpenCog Hyperon, an open-source software framework, is purpose-built to implement the AGI ecosystem environment on this recent hardware infrastructure.

• The project uses a tokenized system for access, allowing users to contribute to and utilize the growing dataset.

• The corporate ultimate goal is to offer access to data for the expansion of AI, AGI, and the hypothetical superintelligence.

Why it matters: While AI giants like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all currently have a stranglehold on the event of AGI, SingularityNET’s recent decentralized approach could change that. It’ll be interesting to see if champions of open-source like Meta are willing to collaborate with the brand new OpenCog Hyperon.

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🤖 Try Gemini 1.5 Pro ‘Experimental‘ without cost

The Rundown: Gemini 1.5 Pro ‘Experimental’ recently surpassed each GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet within the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, and it’s now available to try without cost.

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3. Customize the AI’s behavior using the “Run settings” panel on the appropriate (adjust temperature, token count, etc.).

4. Enter your prompt within the principal text area and click on “Run” to start out generating with the brand new Gemini 1.5 Pro.

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FCC

🚫 FCC cracks down on AI voice calls

The Rundown: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just proposed recent regulations requiring AI-generated voice calls to reveal the usage of artificial intelligence.

The main points:

• The proposal goals to combat the rise of AI-generated voices in unwanted and potentially fraudulent ‘robocalls’.

• AI voices could be required to explicitly state they’re artificial firstly of calls.

• The FCC can also be exploring tools to alert people after they receive AI-generated calls and texts, including enhanced call filters, AI-based detection algorithms, and improved caller ID flagging.

Why it matters: As AI voices grow to be indistinguishable from human speech, these regulations are crucial in combating highly targeted scams. But with enforcement more likely to be a cat-and-mouse game against scammers, one of the best defence is education—especially for those most vulnerable to AI deception.

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• 🎓 Cohere – Research Scholar

• 🌟 Shield AI – Staff Business Development Solution Engineer – International

• 🧑‍💼 Mistral AI – Office Manager

• 👨‍💻 Meta – Software Engineer, Language – Generative AI

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QUICK HITS

NVIDIA and California launched an AI collaboration to coach 100,000 students, educators, and staff in AI skills.

ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode unexpectedly imitated a user’s voice during testing, revealed in OpenAI’s recent safety report.

Delphi unveiled an AI clone feature that creates lifelike digital replicas of people, demonstrating its capabilities in a TV interview on FOX Business.

Amazon’s Alexa division lost $10 billion in 2022 alone, prompting layoffs and a pivot to generative AI to revitalize the smart assistant.

JPMorgan Chase rolled out an internal AI assistant called LLM Suite, powered by OpenAI, to over 60,000 employees for productivity tasks.

Will Eastcott released SuperSplat, a free, open-source web tool for inspecting and editing 3D images created by AI.

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