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Agents and Copilots: AI News Week Ending 02/02/2024

Agents/Copilots

Perplexity AI Tutorial – Tips and Tricks to SUPERCHARGE Your Research with AI Search Engine

Amazon launches AI Shopping Assistant Rufus: Rufus is built on a large language model that’s trained on our expansive product catalog, customer reviews, community Q+As, and the broader web—and is seamlessly integrated with Amazon to make it easy to take action in the shopping experience so many customers love and trust.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-rufus
Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app

Slack Agent Toolkit 

Productivity and communication apps like Slack are powerful tools. 

We can easily give Agents the ability to read from or write to channels within a Slack workspace.

To explore this for yourself, check out the Slack agent toolkit:

https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/toolkits/slack

How a baby with a headcam taught AI to learn words

An AI model identified objects 62% of the time after being trained on video and audio captured by a camera strapped to a toddler’s head.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/baby-headcam-ai-learn

Arc Search it’s a default browser for your iPhone…that BROWSES FOR YOU.  A sneak peek at what agents will do… There was a time before browsers, SEO, pageviews… and there will be a time after….

Arc browser introduced new AI-powered features.

New to the browser are Instant Links to instantly visit top search results and an Explore tool that leverages LLMs to provide an integrated browsing and searching experience.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/28/24053882/arc-search-browser-web-app-ios

Perplexity now available in Arc Browser

We are excited to announce that Perplexity is now integrated into Arc Browser as a default search engine option, allowing users to access the power of AI-powered search. 

https://blog.perplexity.ai/blog/arc-x-perplexity

Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different

‘Browse for me’ is the new search engine, at least if The Browser Company is right about the future of the internet. 

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/28/24053882/arc-search-browser-web-app-ios

Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs

Hugging Face launches open source AI assistant maker to rival OpenAI’s custom GPTs

A guy made a GPT combination weather tool… that reads a poem and shows an image about the current weather.

Introducing Hugging Chat Assistant! Build your own personal Assistant in Hugging Face Chat in 2 clicks! Similar to OpenAI GPTs
https://twitter.com/_philschmid/status/1753429249363452274 

AI Autocomplete – Shortwave now finishes your sentences

https://www.shortwave.com/blog/ghostwriter-ai-email-autocomplete

Automate your meeting notes

Fireflies.ai helps your team transcribe, summarize, search, and analyze voice conversations.

https://fireflies.ai

Google Maps is introducing a generative AI feature to help users discover new places.

Hardware teams at enterprises have been left out of the AI revolution… until now. Today, we’re launching Flux Enterprise! Flux Enterprise delivers an optimized Flux Copilot, the world’s first hardware AI assistant, along with white-glove onboarding, security and compliance features that even the most complex enterprises require. Copilot already helps thousands of hardware teams brainstorm designs, conduct AI design reviews, automate tedious tasks, and ship products faster across a wide range of applications. And now it can help yours, too.

Height 2.0 — the autonomous project collaboration tool, powered by AI.

https://height.app

Opera to launch new AI-powered browser for iOS in Europe following Apple’s DMA changeshttps://techcrunch.com/2024/01/26/opera-to-launch-new-ai-powered-browser-for-ios-in-europe-following-apples-dma-changes/

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This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #18: Week Ending 02/02/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 12 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

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One response to “Agents and Copilots: AI News Week Ending 02/02/2024”

  1. AI News #18: Week Ending 02/02/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 18 Stories – Ethan B. Holland

    […] Agency/Agents/Copilots News of the Week: Agency is when AI can do things for you (like Googling an actress name or fetching the latest weather forecast). An agent is one step further, when AI given autonomy to take action on your behalf (“Alexa, book a reservation for three at Peak in Hudson Yards for Friday night”). A co-pilot is an assistant (like spell check or autofill).This weeks’s latest agent news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/02/07/agents-and-copilots-ai-news-week-ending-02-02-2024 […]

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