Your weekly round-up; here are the headlines:

• Air launches Conversational AI for calls

• Google tests Generative Search with SGE

• Wayfair introduces AI-powered Decorify

• AI Snake Oil probes GPT-4's reliability

• Rewind offers AI-driven searchable history

• Tech giants form Frontier Model Forum for AI safety

AI Customer Service Agents have arrived! Introducing Air…

Conversational AI has arrived: Air is capable of handling complete sales and customer service phone calls, ranging from 5-40 minutes, with human-like quality. And there’s more - it can also independently perform tasks across 5,000 different applications. Discover more and listen to an impressive demo released on X.

Google search with Generative-AI

Google is bringing yet more advanced AI technology to the forefront of Google Search. Having evolved through incarnations such as BERT and MUM (not ironic that this Multitask Unified Model is capable of handling different tasks and languages at the same time!), the latest evolvement is SGE (Search Generative Experience) which is currently in the testing stages, with plans to revolutionise how people engage with information. Try it for yourself!

AI designs interiors - and lets you buy furniture instantly!

Harnessing the power of generative AI, Wayfair has launched a free tool called Decorify - a “virtual room restyler” to help you visualise how your space could look post-makeover. Simply upload a picture of the room you want to decorate and choose from a range of interior styles. The Verge puts this innovative new design tool to the test here.

Is GPT-4 becoming unreliable?

AI Snake Oil has been looking into a published report that claims GPT-4 has worsened since its release. But, this is an oversimplification of what the paper actually found. Some of the methods used to test the chatbot’s capabilities were questionable, so the team at AI Snake Oil decided to delve into the details and here are their findings…

A personalised AI in your pocket

Presenting, Rewind: a clever tool that can capture all the things you’ve looked at on your Mac and iPhone. It then uses AI magic to make everything searchable. You don’t need to do any complicated setups; it works seamlessly with your devices. Rewind turns everything into a private and organised database that you can easily browse and search through. Pretty cool huh? It’s causing quite a stir - take a look.

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