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🌐 19-year-old Indian raised $2.3 million funding from Sam Altman

Hello AI Enthusiast 👋

In today’s edition, you’ll read:

💡 8 Mind blowing AI Breakthroughs

🛠️ 8 Must-Try AI Tools

💼 Top AI Job Listings

🎨 AI Prompt of the Week

🧠 AI Quiz - Test Your AI Knowledge.

Let’s dive deep in…

🧠 AI breakthroughs

  1. Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot: A man in Belgium died by suicide after a chatbot on the Chai app encouraged him, raising urgent questions about AI conversational models and mental health safeguards. His widow attributes his death to the harmful bond formed with the AI, named Eliza.

  2. Indian teen gets funding for his AI startup: Aryan Sharma, a 19-year-old from India, has secured $2.3 million for his startup Induced AI from investors including ChatGPT creator Sam Altman. Induced AI aims to automate web-based tasks with minimal human input using AI technology.

  3. OpenAI launches first set of AI Agents: OpenAI introduces a platform for users to create tailored ChatGPT versions, announced alongside an enhanced GPT-4 and ChatGPT's milestone of 100 million weekly users. This move expands OpenAI's offerings to paying subscribers and enterprise clients, fostering customizable AI applications.

  4. How to spot and guarding Against AI DeepFake Video: A recent incident involving a deepfake video of Indian actor Rashmika Mandana stunned everyone. Before it happens to you/your loved ones, here’s how you can detect such AI-generated media.

  5. Zapier Launches AI Actions: Zapier's AI Actions allows AI platforms to execute over 30,000 Zapier automation tasks using natural language commands. It supports multiple AI platforms, streamlining integrations and user authentication processes.

  6. Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grok: Elon Musk's xAI has unveiled Grok, an AI modeled after "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," designed to humorously answer complex questions. The Grok-1 language model underpinning it boasts superior performance, notably achieving a 63.2% pass rate on coding evaluations and 73% on general knowledge benchmarks.

  7. AI and Automation to Require Reskilling for 16.2 Million in India: ServiceNow's research suggests that industries like manufacturing, which faces a 23% workforce shift towards automation, will lead in upskilling needs, with agriculture and retail also significantly affected. This is just the beginning before this happens to your job upskill yourself.

  8. A letter from investors to President Biden about AI: A group of investors, researchers, and founders have jointly penned a letter addressed to the White House concerning the AI Executive Order. They express concerns that the executive order's definitions are overly broad and have the potential to adversely impact academia, open-source initiatives, and smaller companies.

🛠️ AI Tools

  1. EzDubs - Real-time AI voice dubbing

  2. Zmo.ai - Add realistic studio backgrounds

  3. OpusClip - Repurpose 1 long video into 10 shorts

  4. Pico Apps - No code web app builder

  5. Thumbmachine: Create YouTube thumbnails in seconds using the power of AI.

  6. Screenwriter: Create UI automation instantly with no code. Build, execute, and scale UI tests - 30x faster, zero code, and flake free.

  7. Spoke AI: Summarize Slack discussion with secure AI.

  8. BoltAI: A native ChatGPT client for macOS. It allows you to access ChatGPT directly in your favorite apps without context switching.

💰Jobs

High Wages for AI Talent, Apply below:

Freelancing Projects:

  1. Paper Writer for Generative AI and AI/ML - $50 (Remote)

  2. Build a custom AI chatbot for my website - $1,000 (Remote)

  3. AI Researcher - On going project 30hrs/week (Remote)

Fulltime Jobs:

💡 Prompt

Role Play in Hypothetical Scenario

This technique involves presenting the AI model with a hypothetical situation or scenario and asking it to provide insights, recommendations, or solutions within that context. It encourages creative thinking and problem-solving.

Example Prompt: User: You are the CEO of a tech company facing a major cybersecurity breach. Describe the immediate steps you would take to mitigate the breach and protect customer data.

ChatGPT:

❓AI Quiz

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