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- 🤖 Sam Altman: AGI Coming in 2025
🤖 Sam Altman: AGI Coming in 2025
🦾Plus: 🤖 Rise of AI influencers raising ethical concerns.
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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🤖 AI robot's painting sells for $1M at auction
🐶 MIT's AI trains robot dogs in virtual worlds
🎵 The Beatles make AI history with Grammy noms
🤖 Rise of AI influencers raising ethical concerns.
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Use Perplexity as Your Default Search Engine in Chrome
🤯 6 new AI Tools
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In a recent interview with YCombinator, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, could be here by 2025. Building AGI will need a lot of engineering work, but no new scientific discoveries. An OpenAI researcher agrees with Altman's prediction about AGI.
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A painting produced by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da has sold for more than $1 million at a Sotheby’s auction.
Key Points:
An AI-created portrait of Alan Turing sold at Sotheby's for $1,084,800, much more than expected.
The artwork by Ai-Da Robot is the first piece made by a humanoid robot to be sold at an auction.
The auction shows how AI technology is becoming more connected with the art world.
MIT researchers unveiled an AI system called LucidSim that trains four-legged robots using generated imagery — achieving unprecedented real-world performance without ever seeing actual environments during training.
"Now and Then," The Beatles' AI-enhanced final song, released a year ago, just became the first AI-assisted track to receive Grammy nominations — marking a historical moment for AI's role in music production.
There are growing concerns over the number of Artificial Intelligence influencers gaining traction on social media. AI models, such as Aitana, say they are making thousands of pounds a month from product endorsements - but others have questioned the ethics behind the posts.
Critics say AI models are setting “unrealistic beauty standards”.
AI Tutorial
How to Use Perplexity as Your Default Search Engine in Chrome
Perplexity AI is skyrocketing with millions of users and is reportedly closing a $500 million funding round at a $9 billion valuation, challenging Google. It’s the perfect time to switch. Here’s how to make it your default search engine on Chrome:
Open Chrome and tap the three vertical dots in the top-right corner, then choose Settings.
In the left-hand menu, select the Search engine section.
Select Manage search engines.
Scroll down to the Site search section and tap Add.
Fill in the following details:
Name: Perplexity
Shortcut: (Choose your preferred shortcut)
URL: Paste this - https://www.perplexity.ai/search?q=%s
Hit Add to confirm.
Once added, Perplexity will appear in the Site search list. Tap the three dots next to it and select Make default.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
🐐 Scientists are testing AI that could detect pain in goats just by their facial expressions.
🚘 Waymo’s new AI research shows ‘promising’ self-driving gains.
🎮 Microsoft unveils AI toolbox for Xbox with chatbot and more.
🚨 China develops first AI robot lifeguard to stand 24-hour watch over river.
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