⚡️ Human-Like AI

PLUS: OpenAI addresses 'catastrophic risks' of AI

October 27, 2023

Good morning. Human-like robots may no longer be the stuff of sci-fi movies, with researchers working on humanoid agents for more natural and intuitive simulations. Let’s dive in.

Today’s Highlights:

  • Shutterstock's new AI-powered image editor

  • AI preventing potential house parties at Airbnb

  • Forbes' new AI search engine

DEEP DIVE

The New Paradigm of Humanoid Agents

Researchers from the University of Washington and NVIDIA have proposed an exciting development: humanoid agents for human-like simulations of generative agents.

These generative agents, built using ML models and NLP techniques, already power our chatbots and virtual assistants, providing engaging and natural user interactions. Their abilities extend from answering questions to making recommendations and even composing music or poetry.

But how about making these agents even more human-like?

Humans often tend to constantly adapt changes to their plans according to the changes in the physical environment. Taking inspiration from human psychology, the researchers proposed a two-system mechanism: System 1 for the intuitive and effortless process of thinking, and System 2 for the logical process of thinking. They've introduced aspects like basic needs, emotions, and the social relationship dynamic into the agents.

What happens when these agents fail to interact with others? Negative feedback hits—loneliness, sickness, and tiredness.

“Our system will help researchers such as computational social scientists to be better able to simulate human behavior insilico before doing further studies in the real-world. This is particularly helpful if real-world studies are difficult or costly.”

- Extract from the research

The researchers have used a Unity WebGL interface to present the stimulated agents' statuses over time. Users can choose from one of three worlds to track an agent's status and location.

PUNCHLINES

A Quirky Tour Guide: Boston Dynamics' robot uses AI to develop various personalities as a quirky tour guide.

Party Pooper: Airbnb is using AI to prevent potential house party bookings.

The Price of Truth: Leica's M11-P camera aims to fight misinformation, but only for (wealthy) photojournalists.

Artificial Influence: 1337 develops a new algorithm to fabricate AI-driven micro-influencers to connect niche communities.

Forbes and Search: With its new AI tool Adelaide, Forbes could soon be your go-to search engine.

TLDR

Google Maps’ Immersive View and AI enhancements: Google announced significant AI updates for Maps, including an "Immersive View" for planning routes, deeper Lens integration for local navigation, more accurate real-time information, and enhanced EV charging station details. The update also improves in-app mapping accuracy and search functionality, drawing data from billions of photos.

OpenAI addresses 'catastrophic risks' of AI: OpenAI is creating a readiness team to tackle potential catastrophic risks posed by AI. The team will track, evaluate, forecast, and mitigate AI-related issues including nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological threats, autonomous replication of AI, cybersecurity, and deceptive capabilities of AI.

Amazon Ads introduces AI for ad image creation: Amazon Ads has announced a beta program for AI-generated ad imagery. The tool allows clients to produce context-richer ads with placed product images in various modeled environments. The service primarily targets clients lacking in-house capabilities or agency support.

Shutterstock introduces AI-powered image editor: Shutterstock enhances its platform with AI editing capabilities powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2. Available to all users, the feature works only with existing stock images and will not accept AI-altered submissions.

TRENDING TOOLS

💻 ReactAgent: Next-generation coding with the power of React.js LLM Agent

🔍 Data Provenance Initiative: Conduct large-scale audits of AI datasets for training large language models

👩‍💼 Aomni: Your sales team's AI sidekick

🛠️ OpenAPI DevTools: Discover API behavior and generate OpenAPI specifications effortlessly

🎥 Pictory: Use AI to transform any content into highly shareable videos

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