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AI silencing angry customers at Softbank

SoftBank is developing AI-powered "emotion-canceling" tech to alter angry customer voices for calmer calls with customer service. The project aims to reduce operator stress, with plans for launch by March 2026, sparking mixed reactions online.

Building k-Means Clustering in JavaScript

Implementing k-means data clustering from scratch using JavaScript led to a simpler, more understandable version. The demo showcases encoding and normalizing data for the k-means algorithm in an engaging way.

Uncovering High-Impact AI Opportunities

80% of AI projects fail due to poor use cases or technical knowledge. Gen AI simplifies complexity, helping companies find valuable applications. "Paperclips & Friends" explores AI to tackle increasing customer support demands, highlighting the importance of measuring problem magnitude.

Unraveling Language Models' Visual Intelligence

MIT researchers found that large language models can understand the visual world and generate complex scenes. By querying LLMs to self-correct code for images, they improved simple drawings and trained a vision system without using visual data.

Revolutionizing Drug Discovery

AI is transforming drug discovery by helping scientists find cost-efficient molecules with desired properties. MIT's SPARROW algorithm streamlines synthesis planning, optimizing costs and experimental steps for new medicines, agrichemicals, and specialized materials.

Love in the Age of AI

AI is becoming companions for humans, offering therapy and even love. But is it a solution to loneliness or just a profit-making tool for big tech? Spike Jonze's 'Her' foreshadowed this trend, now seen in AI assistants like Amazon's Alexa and ChatGPT with Scarlett Johansson's voice.

Enhancing Software Development with Communicative Agents

Summary: The "Communicative Agents for Software Development" paper introduces ChatDev, an AI-powered virtual software development company using large language models to streamline coding processes through natural language communication. ChatDev aims to automate software creation, addressing the challenge of skill and capital limitations in software development, with promising success leveraging...

AI: The Next Manhattan Project

Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence book sparked debates on the potential dangers of superintelligent machines, prompting calls for enhanced military defense. Despite criticism, the book successfully brought the concept of AI takeover from academia to mainstream consciousness.

Apple Snubs OpenAI: ChatGPT Integration Unpaid

Apple integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT AI into its devices without payment, sparking speculation about the partnership's terms and benefits. The agreement could lead to increased user engagement for OpenAI and provide Apple with advanced AI capabilities.