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Welcome to our Friday edition!

In today’s menu:

  • AI Inspiration Quote

  • Your Personalized AI Assistant

  • Flowith: AI That Improves Deep Work

  • Movie AI

  • AI Camera Without Lens

  • Top Rated AI Tools

  • Byte Sized news

  • How to Create your own AI Assistant on Mistral

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AI INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE

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Be yourself
Everyone else is already taken

LATEST NEWS

Your Personalized AI Assistant

Google Introduces Customizable Chatbots Called "Gems"

  • Google will allow Gemini subscribers to create custom chatbots called Gems, which can serve various roles like a gym buddy, cooking partner, or writing editor.

  • Users can personalize these Gems by giving them distinct personalities and specialties with simple instructions.

  • Google is launching Gems to users across over 150 countries and in most languages, available on both mobile and desktop.

This move by Google is a significant step to compete with OpenAI by offering personalized AI experiences, expanding the capabilities of its Gemini AI platform to better meet user needs.

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Flowith: AI That Improves Deep Work

Flowith is a cutting-edge AI platform designed to make deep work easier.

It helps with content creation, task management, and solving complex problems.

The platform which can understand your intentions, plan tasks on its own, choose the right tools, and optimize workflows.

Flowith can be used in various fields like coding, academic research, content creation, and strategic planning.

Movie AI

A Documentary about robots that can fight wars on their own.

The film shows how these robots, controlled by AI, might make decisions about who lives or dies without any human help.

It talks about the dangers of this technology and the need to create rules to prevent it from being used in harmful ways.

Unknown: Killer Robots poster (2023)

AI Camera Without Lens

This device might look somewhat like a camera…

But it takes photos without a lens or sensor, instead generating images using AI.

A designer and developer based in Amsterdam has created a device using a Raspberry Pi computer and the Stable Diffusion AI model.

The device, created by "Björn Karman," is called Paragraphica and resembles classic cameras. However, where a lens would usually be, there's a red star instead.

The viewfinder is a display where you can set the specifications of the image you want. There are also three rotary knobs on top of the device that allow you to adjust the camera's settings.

This camera takes photos using data such as GPS location, date, weather conditions, and more. These data are collected through several open APIs. All this information is then converted into a text command for the AI model to generate an image.

The software for this device was written by Karman himself. He says he used the Python programming language and the Stable Diffusion model API, and also utilized the Noodl tool to develop the necessary web apps for gathering input data for the images.

Although Karman has no plans to release this product commercially, you can try the software on the project's website.

Of course, such a camera cannot take photos from just any location since it needs data from that specific point.

However, the concept behind this project is impressive.

Top Rated AI Tools

Elisi: Boost Performance with AI coach

KeyMentions: Convert Reddit traffic into customers

Vokab: Learn German with each tab you open

CheatSheet AI: Create a cheatsheet for anything, fast

Otter Script: Automate text based tasks with fully customizable workflows

BYTE-SIZED NEWS | TOO HOT TO MISS

Alibaba recently introduced Qwen2-VL, a new vision-language AI model that surpasses GPT-4 in several benchmarks, especially in document comprehension and multilingual text-image understanding.

OpenAI and Anthropic have signed a significant agreement with the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute. This deal allows the government to access and test their AI models before they are released to the public.

How to Create your own AI Assistant on Mistral

Mistral AI’s “Agents” feature makes it easy for anyone to customize and deploy AI models for specific tasks—no coding needed.

Here’s how:

  1. Sign up on Mistral AI's website and click "Build on La Plateforme."

  2. Select "Create an Agent" and choose your AI model.

  3. Adjust the randomness slider and provide clear instructions for your agent’s behavior.

  4. Add example interactions to guide your agent’s responses (Optional).

  5. Deploy your agent and start testing!

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