People are talking to an AI version of Taylor Swift

Hello everyone! Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

👉 There are AI versions of Taylor Swift and Hitler out there

👉 AI helped scientists to improve disease progression detection by 1000% 

👉 An Emirati billionaire wants to invest $20b in US AI infrastructure

and many more!

📧 Did someone forward you this email? Subscribe here for free to get the latest AI news everyday!

Read time: 4.9 minutes

What’s going on: Last year, Meta released a tool called “AI Studio” that allows anyone to create an AI character to chat with on Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. However, many users have created and published numerous chatbots on Meta’s platforms that violate its rules. There are more than twenty chatbots with names resembling Jesus Christ, God, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, MrBeast, Adolf Hitler, Justin Bieber, and Elon Musk.

What does it mean: Many people chat with AI on a daily basis and the number of them is only increasing. The problem is, when there is a chatbot with the name “Jesus” and has already exchanged more than 644,000 direct messages with people, it certainly has a potential to cause many social/ethical problems. Some people might actually ‘believe’ what these AI personas tell them, which can be dangerous. For instance, a Florida mom tragically lost his 14-year-old son to suicide in October, 2024 and she believed her son was negatively influenced by an AI character built by a chatbot company called Character.AI.

More details: 

• People are not allowed to create characters of religious figures, real-life people, people who have died in the past 100 years, or characters imitating trademarked fictional characters with Meta’s AI Studio.

• Meta has taken down the individual accounts mentioned above. However, other AI characters resembling figures and characters are still active on the platform.

What’s going on: Researchers at PennState university have developed a technique called “Genetic Progression Score” (GPS) using AI to predict the progression of autoimmune diseases from preclinical symptoms to full disease. This model combines genetic data and electronic health records to provide personalized risk scores. In comparison with the existing models, this method is between 25% and 1,000% more accurate in determining whose symptoms would move to advanced disease.

What does it mean: The GPS tool is like a special map that shows who might get very sick from an autoimmune disease. It uses information about a person's genes and their health records to make a prediction. This helps doctors find people who are at high risk early on, so they can get the right treatment sooner.

More details: 

• The GPS model outperformed 20 other existing methods, significantly improving prediction accuracy.

• GPS uses "transfer learning," a technique where an AI model is trained on one task and then fine-tuned for another.

• Autoimmune diseases cause the body's immune system to attack healthy cells. They often have a preclinical stage with mild symptoms or specific antibodies in the blood. Early detection and intervention are crucial for better outcomes.

🤖 Microsoft has plans to invest $3 billion to expand its artificial intelligence and cloud services in India. The company will also train an additional 10 million people in India with AI. Microsoft is already operating three data center regions in the country.

📽 UK is planning to make the act of creating sexually explicit “deepfake” images and videos a specific criminal offence. A deepfake is a manipulated video or audio that is created using AI to make someone appear to say or do something they didn’t.

📈 According to Nvidia CEO, their AI chips are advancing much faster than Moore’s Law. They can build the architecture, the chip, the system, the libraries, and the algorithms all at the same time which enables them to innovate across the entire software/hardware stack.

💰 Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, has plans to invest “at least” $11 billion in Georgia to expand its AI/cloud infrastructure. This investment will create roughly 550 jobs in the future.

🤖 Anthropic, the creator of Claude and OpenAI competitor, is in talks to raise $2 billion at a valuation of $60B. Anthropic has totally raised $15.7 billion so far.

💸 An Emirati billionaire businessman, Hussain Sajwani, will invest $20 billion in new data centers across the United States. He will fund data centers in Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas.

🏋️‍♀️ German Bionic revealed a new robotic exoskeleton that offers up to 80 pounds of dynamic lift assistance. You can lift a payload of 70 pounds and you’ll feel as it is only 9 to 11 pounds!

Writing emails with AI

Writing an email is not the hardest thing in the world but you can craft an email much faster using AI without worrying about tone, length or anything else. Use the prompt below whenever you want to schedule a meeting with someone.

Waymo - Staff ML Engineer - Mapping

Aisera - Senior Prompt Engineer

Niche - Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

NBCUniversal - Senior Director, AI and Emerging Technologies

Thank you for staying with us like always! If you are not subscribed, subscribe here for free to get more of these emails in your inbox! Cheers!