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Today we talk about AI advances (and in particular a puff piece from @BBCNews about Microsoft Copilot) that can help make work life easier, like bullet-point emails, suggest responses, and sit on on meetings and give you a summary.

Check out more here: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67103536

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News from the world of AI that you probably missed. We cover a ton of stories today! Check them out:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/12/23914915/ai-replicas-likeness-law-no-fakes-copyright

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879077

https://generatingconversation.substack.com/p/openai-is-too-cheap-to-beat

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-electricity-use-spiking-power-entire-country

https://twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1713896329812869565

https://danangell.com/blog/posts/gpt-understands/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatgpt-generator-mindless-bullshit-stephan-kolassa/

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News from the world of AI that you probably missed. We cover a ton of stories today! Check them out:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/12/23914915/ai-replicas-likeness-law-no-fakes-copyright

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37879077

https://generatingconversation.substack.com/p/openai-is-too-cheap-to-beat

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-electricity-use-spiking-power-entire-country

https://twitter.com/_Borriss_/status/1713896329812869565

https://danangell.com/blog/posts/gpt-understands/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatgpt-generator-mindless-bullshit-stephan-kolassa/

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Today we talk about recent (or not so recent) trends in the demand for everything to be hyper-personalized to our own specifications and desires. @DigitalNative has more: https://www.digitalnative.tech/p/the-hyper-personalization-of-everything

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Today we talk about this remarkably "lifelike" robot, created by Disney, that uses a real animator in the team to achieve weirdly CGI-like emotions.

Read more from @ieeespectrum here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/disney-robot

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Today we talk about these weird AI chatbots, based on real celebrities and almost identical to them, which have weird names and personalities. Check out more here: https://medium.com/the-generator/meta-lets-you-chat-with-ai-celebrities-on-social-media-sorta-3055a97e9a28

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Today we talk about new legislation signed into law by Gov. Newsom, the Cailfornia DELETE act. We review some analysis by Tom Kemp, which you can see here: https://www.tomkemp.ai/blog/2023/10/10/analysis-of-the-california-delete-act-sb-362-signed-into-law

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Today we catch up on the following stories from the world of AI:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-ai-stickers-generate-pics

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/deepfake-election-interference-in-slovakia.html

https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1710397599474458818

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/9/23909529/disney-marvel-loki-generative-ai-poster-backlash-season-2

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Today we talk about a couple of stories that caught Mike's eye.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-rto-mess-return-to-office-remote-work-2023-9

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/how-a-4-day-workweek-actually-works-from-the-companies-pulling-it-off-1a5c0e2a

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Today we talk about Ad-Shield, who inject ads into a web page but also remove some of them. Kind of dodgy, but is it better than nothing?

You can see HoJoeng's presentation from the summit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw1eIaRuy7w&t=6612s

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