AI Update - Friday, June 7, 2024

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? Siri and Google Assistant look to generative AI for a new lease on life

There’s a lot riding on next week’s?WWDC 2024 keynote. The presentation’s stakes are far higher than your standard post-event market moves. The pressure for Tim Cook and crew to deliver the goods is, in a very real sense, even higher than it was in the lead up to last year’s?Vision Pro announcement.

? Meta adds AI-powered features to WhatsApp Business app

Last year, during the Q3 2023 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg talked about leveraging AI to have business accounts respond to customers for purchase and support queries. Today, Meta announced AI-powered features for WhatsApp Business apps, such as helping with the creation of click-to-WhatsApp ads and generating responses to frequent customer messages.

? Middle-Mile Infrastructure Is the Next Frontier for Digital and AI Equity?

When you picture the internet landscape in America, you probably see a map of millions of high-speed internet “roads” connecting to every business, household, and individual. Now, take that image and remove?40%?of the roads and endpoints. That represents the digital divide, the percentage of businesses, households, and individuals—largely in rural communities—that do not have access to reliable internet connectivity.??

? Google Play cracks down on AI apps after circulation of apps for making deepfake nudes

Google on Thursday is issuing new guidance for developers building AI apps distributed through Google Play, in hopes of cutting down on inappropriate and otherwise prohibited content. The company says apps offering AI features will have to prevent the generation of restricted content — which includes sexual content, violence and more — and will need to offer a way for users to flag offensive content they find. In addition, Google says developers need to “rigorously test” their AI tools and models, to ensure they respect user safety and privacy.

? A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies

Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform,?Cara?has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts.

? Google looks to AI to help save the coral reefs

Google has developed a new AI tool to help marine biologists better understand coral reef ecosystems and their health, which can aid in conversation efforts. The tool,?SurfPerch, created with Google Research and DeepMind, was trained on thousands of hours of audio reef recordings that allow scientists studying the reef to be able to “hear reef health from the inside,” track reef activity at night, and track reefs that are in deep or murky waters.