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Copilot arrives on Windows.
LinkedIn has AI to help with your job applications.
AMD thinks AI will help its GPU business.
Governments say AI could be bad for everyone.
Some neat AI tools to try out.
And a few more AI app recommendations and reviews.
AI news
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Copilot lands on Windows 11
Microsoft has started rolling out its AI-powered Copilot for enterprise Windows 11 users.
For the uninitiated, Copilot is Microsoft’s generative AI tool that pulls a lot of its smarts from OpenAI’s GPT models. (Microsoft is one of OpenAI’s major backers.)
With Copilot on Windows, you can do many ChatGPT-like things, including composing emails and contextualizing data. There are also AI image features inside of apps like Paint and Photos. Copilot on Windows is part of Microsoft’s broader mission to put AI everywhere including in standalone products such as Bing, Edge, and Microsoft 365.
All this AI goodness does not come cheap; Microsoft is charging enterprise customers $30 a month for Copilot features.
Fresh AI tools for LinkedIn
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is adding premium AI tools aimed at professionals.
The headline AI feature is a tool to help users quickly determine whether they are a good fit for a job. As LinkedIn’s chief product officer explains it, the tool is geared toward those who might otherwise feel insecure about applying for a position.
LinkedIn has also rolled out an AI-powered summary button that breaks down long posts into bullet points. LinkedIn notes that summaries will be tailored to the user, so that a stock trader would get a different summary than a sales executive.
The new AI features are available to those on a LinkedIn Premium plan, which start at $39.99 a month.
AMD eyes $2B in AI chip sales
Chipmaker AMD says it expects to generate more than $2 billion in GPU sales in 2024 due to the demand from AI companies.
AMD CEO Lisa Su made the prediction during the company’s fiscal 2023 third-quarter earnings call, where she noted the company is working with partners such as Microsoft on a variety of AI strategies. Su also added AMD is “focused on accelerating our leadership AI capabilities across our entire product portfolio.”
AMD is zeroing in on AI as pressure grows from competitors such as Nvidia and Intel, both of which are pushing to establish themselves as the AI chip company.
World governments say AI poses ‘catastrophic’ risk
The US, UK, EU, China, and other world governments have signed an international declaration stating things could go very wrong with AI.
The so-called Bletchley declaration was published on the first day of the British AI safety summit, which is being attended by prominent figures such as Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg and Elon Musk. The statement speaks of the “potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm…stemming from the most significant capabilities of these AI models.”
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has called the declaration a “landmark achievement” because so many major players recognize the “risks of AI.”
While the communique has the sign-off of 28 countries, it doesn’t outline a global approach to regulating AI, which - judging from our own polling - looks like it could be much more difficult to agree on.
Poll
Is there any value to the Bletchley doctrine?Tell us what you think. We’ll share the results in our next newsletter. |
Results from our last poll: Will regulation stifle AI innovation?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✅ Yes, it will put the brakes on one of the most exciting times in human history.
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ❎ No, it will actually stop us from destroying ourselves.
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AI tools you should try
ToolBaz (free): Getting tired of keeping tabs on a ton of different writing tools, just to handle your text generation and plagiarism-checking? ToolBaz has your back. It’s an online repository of AI writing tools, covering everyday uses (content generator, blog outlines) as well as specific niches (rap lyrics creator, review generator). This one is definitely worth a look.
Kapwing (free with paid options): There are a plethora of online video editing tools, but Kapwing might be one of the smartest. The web app features a healthy set of AI tools, including a text-to-video generator and even an article-to-video wizard.
Fotor (free with paid options): Fotor is an all-round image editing app, but it also has some interesting AI features to play with. You do have to pay for most of them (the plans aren’t wildly expensive), but you can still apply some AI photo effects to your images if you just want to try it out.
Best bets
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