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Good morning, human brains. Welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• ChatGPT x Mercedes 🚗

  Mercedes beta-tests ChatGPT functionality in their cars.

• Meta’s Voicebox tease 😰

  Meta brags about their new AI speech generator, but won’t spill the tea on how they did it.

• AI’s gaming extraordinaire 👾 

  Deepmind’s new model masters Atari games 500 times more efficiently than others.

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APPETIZER

ChatGPT in Mercedes cars

Mercedes announced ChatGPT is now integrated in its vehicles. Features include voice command, contextual conversation, and integration with third-party apps.

“Hey, Mercedes.” — that’s actually what you say to use it.

What it do? It’s a voice assistant that engages in conversation, gathers info on destinations, books reservations, etc.

The beta program works in over 900,000 Mercedes-Benz vehicles with the MBUX infotainment system.

Our take: With Tesla’s self-driving AI and Mercedes rolling out ChatGPT functionality, vehicle manufacturers that don’t incorporate AI may get left behind. But while AI in cars is useful, it could become yet another distraction. Hello, more safety concerns.

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Meta Voicebox 🔊

Meta announced Voicebox last week, a new state-of-the-art generative AI for voice audio.

It’s the first of its kind to complete speech generation and speech editing tasks in a generalized way — tasks it wasn’t specifically trained for.

Voicebox can:

• Edit audio seamlessly

• Transfer the style and cadence of one audio sample to another

• Synthesize new audio based on text and an input audio clip

• Remove background noise

No more screaming children in the background, phew.

That’s the good news. But Meta isn’t releasing the model to the public, at least for now.

Voicebox is built on Meta’s Flow Matching model. It’s particularly adapted to learn non-deterministic mappings between text and speech, which means it can learn from a wide range of speech data without careful labeling.

Our take: Is it even possible to ensure a tool like this isn’t abused? If this tech isn’t publicly accessible, who gets access to it?

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

New AI is a master gamer 👾 

Google DeepMind’s new AI model achieves human-like learning on Atari games. The BBF (Bigger, Better, Faster) model learned 26 games in 2 hours.

“gg noobs”

Sure, other AI models have mastered these games. But the BBF model outperforms previous models and requires 500 times less computing power.

Our take: “All tasks“ and “superhuman” — those are some big goals. Real life is a lot more complex than video games, so how will DeepMind bridge the gap to get there?

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YOUR DAILY MUNCH

Think Pieces

A Stanford University article on the Draft EU AI act. In-depth analysis of which AI models comply with the latest regulations.

Thinking of starting an AI startup? Harvard Business Review covers what to consider before becoming an AI entrepreneur.

Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications launches AI. The AI will start answering non-emergency calls to tackle high call volume.

Startup News

Windows to the soul, and heart disease too. Google’s new health-tech AI evaluates a patient’s cardiovascular risk through retinal imaging.

HuggingFace launches OpenLLaMA. An open-source version of Meta’s LLM LLaMA.

Research

MAGICBRUSH, an AI model that edits images based on text prompts. How it works, its effectiveness, and potential issues.

MIT Technology Review unpacks the rising popularity of AI doomerism: a closer look at the recent trend.

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AdCreative.ai — Easily create ads for any business with AI.

Definite — Analyze data quickly and effectively with AI.

TWEET OF THE DAY

ChatGPT writes a cryptocurrency joke. It doesn’t quite land:

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