Lumana launches new AI video surveillance system | Security Systems News – https://www.securitysystemsnews.com/article/lumana-launches-new-ai-video-surveillance-system 

Bad Haircut? A Hot Chinese App Is Giving Americans Blunt Advice – WSJ – https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/bad-haircut-a-hot-chinese-app-is-giving-americans-blunt-advice-b82e67e2?st=5apwke3zcycch1t&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink 

“Introducing Universal-1, our most powerful speech recognition model to date. Trained on over 12.5 million hours of multilingual audio data, Universal-1 achieves best-in-class speech-to-text accuracy across English, Spanish, French, and German.  https://twitter.com/AssemblyAI/status/1775527556042629437

“Are We on the Right Way for Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models? Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have recently achieved rapid progress, sparking numerous studies to evaluate their multi-modal capabilities. However, we dig into current evaluation works and identify  https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1774669369869508743 

Claude

“I used Anthropic Claude 3 Opus model to analyse all 63 Podcasts from Dwarkesh Patel’s channel and extracted useful book recommendations, career advices, interesting ideas, learning tips etc 1.49Million tokens processed, costs $23 ( luckily Anthropic Claude 3 has provided me…  https://twitter.com/arunprakashml/status/1774989084307624144

Gemini

“AIs are really impressive at figuring out context from video. I uploaded a minute of me playing Balatro, a new roguelike deckbuilding poker game, and Gemini 1.5 was able to figure out the core gameplay loop from watching me play once. Surprisingly good insights.  https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1775712704738545940

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Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:

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

AI News #27: Week Ending 04/05/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 48 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive 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.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/

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