📌 This week's AI Brew summary:

• AI Spotlight 🚀: Google supercharging search with generative AI

• Real-Life AI Stories 🤖: Microsoft bets big on AI recycling startup + Meta's AI generate multisensory content

• AI Jargon Buster 🤷‍♂️: Where does ChatGPT fit within AI?

• Cool Corner 😎: ‘Friends’ characters transformed into toddlers

• Living up to Google's mission — to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" — ChatGPT has been dishing out info like a pro! 🌐📚 It reshapes the info from websites instead of just throwing you into the web jungle. 🕸️🌳OpenAI and Microsoft have been giving Google some serious competition with their generative AI experiences.

  🧠🔄 No wonder Google had to step up its game! 🏃‍♂️💨Google showed off an experimental version of its search engine that's got some serious smarts in Google's IO developer conference this week. 🧠💻

  Ever had one of those "Hmm, should we take our toddler and the family dog to Arches National Park or Bryce Canyon?" kind of dilemmas? 🤔👶🐶⛰️ Well, worry no more because Google's got your back! This brainy search engine scoured the entire internet and delivered a detailed, info-packed answer. It turns out, while only Bryce has dog-friendly paths 🐾, your kiddos might be totally wowed by the rock formations at Arches. 🧗‍♀️ And don't sweat about Fido - there's plenty of dog-friendly campgrounds, pullouts, & roads at Arches! 🏕️

Google Search VP, Cathy Edwards, was pretty chuffed. "Now, search does the heavy lifting for you," she boasted. And boy, she wasn't kidding! The AI-generated search response was so chunky, it took up the whole browser window! 🖥️. Here is a video of what is coming up and how Google is ready to take on Bing and OpenAI:

Now, as cool as this new search feature is, there's a flip side to the coin. Today, when we google something, we hop from one website to another, gathering bits and pieces of info like digital detectives. The process is a bit of a pain, but the websites they visit depend on them to survive.🕵️‍♀️ But with Google now flexing its muscles and doing all the 'heavy lifting' 🏋️‍♀️, these primary sources might find themselves left out in the cold. ❄️🙁 This could diminish their cause to remain standalone entities — or even their very existence! 😱

• Microsoft bets big on AI recycling startup: AMP Robotics is the rockstar startup that's been using AI and robotics to turn the recycling industry on its head. Last year alone, AMP's AI platform identified a whopping 75 billion objects (yeah, you read that right)! 🤯🔍

  They have just secured a hefty Series C funding round to the tune of more than $99 million from none other than tech giant Microsoft through their Climate Innovation Fund. 💻🌱🚀

• With this fresh cash injection, AMP plans to scale up their operations and apply their AI-powered automation to even more existing and new recycling infrastructure.

• Meta open-sources multisensory AI model: Meta has recently unveiled an ambitious open-source AI model that amalgamates multiple types of data, including text, audio, visuals, temperature, and even movement readings. While this model is currently in the research stage, it's a significant leap towards a future of generative AI systems capable of delivering multisensory experiences. 🤯

  Here's a more detailed rundown of this exciting development:

  • Multidimensional Index: Known as ImageBind, this model is a pioneering effort in linking six distinct types of data into a single multidimensional index or "embedding space" in AI terminology. 🧠

  • Data Types: The data isn't just ordinary. It includes visuals (image and video 📸🎥), thermal (infrared images), text, audio, depth information, and movement readings derived from an inertial measuring unit (IMU)—the kind of technology you'd find in smartphones and smartwatches. ⌚️📱

  • Future Implications: The objective is to enable future AI systems to cross-reference this composite data in the same way current AI systems handle text inputs. Imagine a virtual reality device that can not only generate audio and visual input but also simulate physical experiences like the rocking of a ship deck or the cool breeze of the ocean air. 🌊

While this is just a peek into a probable future, it's a compelling indicator of where Meta—and AI as a whole—might be heading. Let's stay tuned for what comes next! 🚀

ChatGPT is a prime example of a deep learning model in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI). More specifically, ChatGPT falls under the umbrella of Natural Language Processing (NLP), a subfield of AI dedicated to the interaction between computers and human language.

Breaking down the term "Generative Pretrained Transformer" (GPT) helps us understand where ChatGPT fits:

1️⃣ Generative: This term signifies that ChatGPT can create or "generate" outputs. In this case, it's crafting text that's akin to human conversation. It's like an AI wordsmith at your service! 🖋️📚

2️⃣ Pretrained: The "pretrained" part means that before ChatGPT starts a conversation, it's been trained on a vast corpus of text. Imagine it as an extensive immersion course in human language for our AI model. 📖🎓

3️⃣ Transformer: This is the fundamental AI architecture that ChatGPT is built upon. Transformers help the model comprehend the context of words and their sequence, ensuring the conversation makes sense. It's the secret sauce that gives ChatGPT its contextual understanding ability. 🔍🧩

So, to encapsulate, ChatGPT exists at the intersection of deep learning and Natural Language Processing. Its combination of generative capabilities, pretraining, and transformer architecture enables it to understand and generate human-like text, making it a significant player in enhancing human-computer interactions. 🚀🤝

• Well, isn't this a pivot? 🔄 An inventive Italian duo has taken the "Friends" characters we know and love, and thanks to a dash of artificial intelligence, rewound the clock to their toddler years. 👶🍼 Now, picture this: mini-Monica obsessing over cleanliness, or baby Chandler making gurgles that somehow still sound sarcastic. 😂 Ready for a 'Friends' flashback like no other? 🎉

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