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Brian Hanson
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Welcome to Another Issue of AI for Business
Hey y’all! ??
Still catching up with all the AI happenings?
I know they’re bit overwhelming, but I’ve got you covered!
Today, we break down the most important AI updates and explore how they could impact your business operations and strategy.
Ready? Let's dive in!
Read time: 3.5 minutes
TRENDING AI NEWS
What happened: Boston Dynamics has launched a new fully electric version of its iconic Atlas humanoid robot, designed specifically for real-world commercial and industrial applications.
The updated Atlas robot ditches hydraulics for an all-electric design in partnership with Hyundai. This allows for increased strength, broader range of motion, and new gripper variations to handle diverse manipulation tasks.
Some key enhancements include:
Through video demonstrations, Boston Dynamics showcased Atlas ability to lift objects, navigate terrain, and potentially take on human-scale physical work.
How it might impact you: For businesses, Atlas opens up opportunities to automate dangerous, labor-intensive, or higher-cost manual tasks, but it also somehow raises societal concerns around robot workforce displacement.
Do you think the new Atlas robot will create more jobs than it displaces?
I'd love to know your thoughts.
What happened: Microsoft has unveiled VASA-1, a powerful new AI system that can turn any portrait photo into a photorealistic talking video avatar, animated just by an audio source.
Using just a single image and an audio clip, VASA-1 can generate highly lifelike videos showing that person's face seamlessly animated - with accurate lip syncing, natural head movements, emotional expressions, and more.
Key capabilities include:
How you can take advantage of it: For enterprises, it opens up new avenues for training videos, customer service chatbots, and data privacy by animating generic avatars instead of real people.
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However, alongside these enterprise benefits, the potential to create misleading 'fake' videos and deepfakes is another issue Microsoft has also acknowledged, noting that safeguards will be essential to address this.
What happened: Meta has announced the rollout of its new AI assistant called Meta AI across all its major platforms - WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.
Powered by Meta's latest large language model Llama 3, the virtual assistant offers a suite of generative AI capabilities:
Users can access Meta AI through a search box interface within the respective apps or on the meta.ai website.
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