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Five Things AI: Her, Web, Publisher, Voice, Manipulation
Five Things AI: Her, Web, Publisher, Voice, Manipulation
You guessed it: this week was another huge week for AI!
Hi and welcome back to Five Things AI! My name is Nico Lumma and every week I like to share five interesting articles about AI with you. So instead of researching for hours on the web, just read these five articles here and you are all set. As I’m saving you a couple of hours every week, I’d really appreciate it if you could go paid and spend the equivalent of one large café latte on this newsletter.
Thanks!
Earlier this week OpenAI released GPT-4o (o for omni) and now everybody is talking about multimodal AI. Certainly, the new features of GPT-4o are impressive and we’re all looking forward to realtime translation during the next vacation or business trip. Google also had a few announcements around AI this week. Also, Anthropic finally announced that claude.ai is now available in Europe.
What will all of that mean for the future? Find out in this week’s Five Things AI!
A.I.’s ‘Her’ Era Has Arrived
Is this cool? Scary? Impressive? All of the above? I love it when new things get released and everybody is trying to make sense of it. I assume we will see some new use cases in the next few weeks that are really cool and lots of stuff that is impressive once and will get ignored afterwards.
Google’s broken link to the web
Google has a huge problem defending his amazing business model in the near future. AI can be search on steroids and that means less clicks on ads. Whoopsies.
Leaked Deck Reveals How OpenAI Is Pitching Publisher Partnerships
Meanwhile OpenAI tries very hard to get deals done with publishers to include their content in its models. The more publishers join, the better the content will be. At the same time publishers need to think fast about how this will change their business model in the long run.
ElevenLabs Is Building an Army of Voice Clones
Text to speech is so amazing. We invested in Bottalk a few years ago because the potential is so huge. It makes content more accessible and it creates new opportunities for content creators. Obviously, it can be so good that we wonder why humans should be necessary in the process at all. Do we want this everywhere?
Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots
AI is moving fast and will break things, and then the next iteration will hopefully be better than the previous one. Still, we should not ignore possible downsides.
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That’s it for Five Things AI this week! 🤖
— Nico