a modern humanoid robot is wearing clothes, a short sleeved white collar oxford cloth shirt and khaki pants. It has a name tag that says “Senior Employee” –ar 5:3 –style raw

Adobe

Adobe – Adobe Revolutionizes Workplace Productivity with Launch of Acrobat AI Assistant for the Enterprise

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Revolutionizes-Workplace-Productivity-with-Launch-of-Acrobat-AI-Assistant-for-the-Enterprise/default.aspx

Devin

Devin helped @itsandrewgao apply for a job at McDonald’s and ended up talking to another AI bot 

Rabbit

“We reversed the Rabbit R1 🐇 and got it to run on our phones! This gives us future OTA updates, access to new features without a device + works perfectly without root/system perms! (Blog post below) 

Other Agent News

The teens making friends with AI chatbots – The Verge

“Life is short, use AI Skip the hour-long earnings call and get summaries in 2 mins Tech stack: – @streamlit still by far the simplest UI framework – @GroqInc and llama3 70b – @LangChainAI for making interacting with llm a breeze Future improvements: – connect with a 

01.AI Launches Personal AI Workspace ‘Wanzhi’ – Pandaily 

AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught – IEEE Spectrum

“The AI Senior Employee (AISE) In the latest @theallinpod pod, @sama explained the next possible iteration of an AI assistant as something that is similar to a “Senior Employee” I agree. Here is how I see it in practice: You work on your computer, and the AISE sees your screen 

SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Bring Online LLMs to Next Gen Voice Assistants Across Cars and IoT Devices | Business Wire

“Upgrade your voice technology game with our guide to AI voice cloning! 🗣️ Learn how to replicate your voice and generate speech for your own voice assistant in just a few steps! #voicecloning #aivoice #aitech 

“AI phone agents are here. Here are 8 startups enabling this you should know about + funding: 1. Bland AI – undisclosed – available as an API – $0.09/minute 

“Introducing Conversational AI Teams. Automate customer interactions with teams of intelligent AI voice assistants that: -> Talk to customers  each other -> Schedule, update CRMs,  more -> Operate via one phone number 

“🚀 Meet your new AI team in the Multi-Agents Sidebar! With dynamic memory and specialized tools, your AI agents are ready to follow you into every project. 🧠 Collaborate with your AI workforce across Taskade, ready to tackle tasks at any time! Reply ‘AI’ for early access! ✨ 

“ChatLLM – An AI Assistant Across All SOTA LLMs With ChatLLM access Llama-3 on Groq, GPT-4, Opus, and Gemini 1.5. You can also build custom chatbots and AI agents in English!! All for the super low price of $10 / month per user!! For this super low price – Chatbots across 

“We got invited by @garrytan to demo Firecrawl 🔥 at YC launch live. So, I practiced by pitching to an AI simulation of a Shark Tank that we built with @GroqInc llama3 and @elevenlabsio. No, @kevinolearytv, my mom doesn’t have 2300 smurf GitHub accounts 🤣🤣 

“Great article by the @nytimes looking into Ai companions and how they can help the loneliness epidemic. https://x.com/MyReplika/status/1788616840127938782

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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 #32: Week Ending 05/10/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 70 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.

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One response to “Agents and Copilots: AI News Week Ending 05/10/2024”

  1. […] 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 week’s latest agent news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/05/10/agents-and-copilots-ai-news-week-ending-05-10-2024/ […]

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