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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:

• Skype’s new AI upgrades 🗣️ 💁‍♀️

  Skype’s Bing Chat gets AI-powered rewrites, suggestions, and more.

• Salesforce and Databricks expand partnership 🏢 💘 

  Simplifying customers’ data access and AI development.

• Google’s $20 million AI fund 🤖 💰

  Google launched the Digital Futures Fund for AI grants.

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APPETIZER

Skype’s AI enhancements 🗣️ 💁‍♀️

Microsoft announced updates for Bing Chat in Skype. The updates include message rewrites, tone suggestions, etc.

Skype update, lolcats??

Well, razzle-dazzle:

1/ Skype’s AI now suggests message tones and rewrites messages.

2/ You can switch between tones like professional, casual, witty, etc.

3/ You can switch back to your original message if you don’t like the suggestion.

To get Skype’s early access features, sign up here.

Our take: we’ll see more filter-outsourcing, so-to-speak, as more apps adopt this functionality. Sure, it’ll mean fewer mishaps in business communication, and maybe even personal relationships — after all, who needs unnecessary hostility?

But the switch between instant message training wheels and in-person conversations might be rough…

“Take this job and shove it.” 👎️ → “I’ve decided to pursue other opportunities.” 👍️ 

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MAIN COURSE

Salesforce and Databricks’ expansion 🏢💘 

We now witness the graceful transition from the Summer of AI-Corporate Love to the Autumn of… erm,

Salesforce announced yet another partnership expansion yesterday — this time with Databricks.

The goal: simplify data sharing across the two platforms to make AI development easier. The partnership enables zero-ETL data sharing for customers.

Love connection:

1/ Users can merge data from Salesforce’s Data Cloud with data from Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform.

2/ The benefit: simplified data management and easier security.

3/ You can now train AI models in Databricks and deploy them in Data Cloud applications.

4/ You get faster, unified data access for more personalized recommendations.

Our take: we forgot to mention, Salesforce announced a partnership with IBM just a few weeks back. They’re all cahoots, cahoots, I tell you!

The big | S | F | is tripling down on data sharing across every conceivable data platform. For good reason: the easier it is to integrate with Salesforce, the easier it’ll be to incorporate AI into business’ incumbent CRM.

So who’s next?

A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA

Google’s $20 million AI fund 🤖 💰

Google launched their Digital Futures Project yesterday. It’s a grant fund designated for AI-related think tanks and academic institutions.

Some thinks you can put in your own tank:

1/ The Digital Futures Project supports independent AI research in areas such as security, labor, and governance.

2/ Aspen Institute, MIT Work of the Future, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace have all received grants from the fund.

3/ The fund’s mission is to bring together diverse voices to address AI’s opportunities and challenges.

Our take: funding AI safety is officially part of the zeitgeist. $20 million is a drop in the bucket, but hey — something is better than nothing.

MEMES FOR DESSERT

YOUR DAILY MUNCH

Think Pieces

ChatGPT is a water guzzler. It uses around 500ml of water per 50 prompts.

Researchers find new magnetic elements with AI. Future magnets might be made of abundant materials and work more efficiently.

An in-depth, easy-to-understand guide to LLMs. A beginner’s guide to the open-source Falcon model.

Startup News

Amazon requires authors to disclose their AI use. Via updated Kindle publishing guidelines.

Slack unveils a new AI tool. It recaps channels, threads, and more — coming this winter.

Ant Group announces new AI model. The Chinese fintech is creating a wealth management LLM.

Research

A method for creating audiobooks from text. It uses text-to-speech computing to create thousands of audiobooks in different styles and voices.

ProPainter — a video inpainting framework that allows long-range propagation and attention.

Mobile V-MoEs — a method to scale down vision transformers for resource-constrained vision applications.

Tools

Loom AI — the video messaging tool’s new AI assistant.

Second — codebase migration tool with AI agents.

G-Prompter — use OpenAI’s API to create several personalized AI prompters.

Cosmos — a video cataloging tool. Search through your saved footage with text.

TWEET OF THE DAY

Ethan Mollick, a Wharton School professor, retweeted a paper on subtractive AI innovation. Included: a neat Star Wars reference.

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Until next time 🤖😋🧠