AI Update - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Seth Waters
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AI has already started?replacing voice agents’ jobs . Now, companies are exploring ways to replace the existing computer-generated voice models with synthetic versions of human voices. Truecaller, the widely known caller ID service, is the latest to take this approach with its announcement that it will now allow customers to use its AI-powered Assistant to answer phone calls in their?own?voice.
A dodgy email containing a link that looks “legit” but is actually malicious remains one of the most dangerous, yet successful, tricks in a cybercriminal’s handbook. Now, an AI startup called?Bolster ?that has built a novel approach to tackle that trick has raised $14 million in funding to expand its work, both across a popular free phish-checking portal it operates called (appropriately)?CheckPhish , as well as with its primary paying customers: brands and other businesses.
TikTok is the latest tech company to incorporate generative AI into its ads business, as the company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new “TikTok Symphony” AI suite for brands. The tools will help marketers write scripts, produce videos and enhance current assets.
These days every company is trying to figure out if their large language models are compliant with whatever rules they deem important, and with legal or regulatory requirements. If you’re in a regulated industry, the need is even more acute. Perhaps that’s why Patronus AI is finding early success in the marketplace.
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When developers have a particular job that AI can solve, it’s not typically as simple as just pointing an LLM at the data. There are other considerations such as cost, speed and accuracy and finding ways to balance all of those has been particularly challenging, especially with so many new models coming online all the time.
Taking meeting notes is a chore, so why not leave that task to AI? That’s the premise behind a new startup,?Granola , whose AI-powered notepad app lets you combine your own notes with those created by AI based on a transcript of your meeting. Unlike some other AI transcription apps that try to summarize the key points of a meeting on their own, Granola takes a more collaborative approach to working with AI. You can opt to guide the AI by writing down what you think the most important takeaways were from the meeting and allow the AI to fill in the details.
Still more funding is being poured into startups focused on AI.?DeepL , which builds automated text translation and writing tools that compete against the likes of Google Translate and Grammarly, said on Wednesday that it has raised an additional $300 million. It is now valued at $2 billion, post-money.?
Most apps that help you learn languages feature a user experience that has you selecting options or swiping away wrong answer cards — you’re more or less interacting with a machine. Language-learning app?Praktika ?is adopting a different approach: It lets you create personalized AI-powered avatars to replicate the experience of having a private tutor, leveraging inflections like tone of voice and emotions to help make learning a language feel more natural.?
Humane, the company behind the?much-hyped ?Ai Pin that launched to less-than-glowing reviews last month, is on the hunt for a buyer,?Bloomberg reported ?citing anonymous sources.