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Jesus, Coca-Cola Ads, and School Cheating: What AI Replaced in 2024

Artificial intelligence is reshaping our world in unexpected and often controversial ways. We've rounded up the seven most talked-about articles of the year.

1️⃣ Students Hacked Calculators to Cheat with ChatGPT

American high schoolers hacked the popular TI-84 Plus calculator and put ChatGPT on it. The result? The ultimate tool for acing exams without studying.

2️⃣ Coca-Cola's Holiday Ad Gets an AI Makeover

A reimagined version of the 1995 classic "Holidays Are Coming" was entirely generated by AI Model Kling 1.5. Using AI eliminated the need for on-location winter shoots and saved millions.

3️⃣ Swiss Church Introduces an AI Jesus

At St. Peter's Church in Lucerne, worshippers now interact with an AI version of Christ trained on the New Testament and theological writings. Reactions vary: some hail it as a profound spiritual experience, while others dismiss it as mere gimmickry.

4️⃣ The Origins of CAPTCHA

What began as a tool to distinguish humans from bots now plays a crucial role in advancing artificial intelligence. Discover how one of the internet's most irritating features became essential to online security.

5️⃣ ChatGPT as a Digital Diary

Justin Moore, a partner at a16z, entrusted ChatGPT with her innermost thoughts, emotions, and chat screenshots. The AI organizes her ideas, simplifies communication, and even aids self-reflection.

6️⃣ AI Predictions for 2030

According to The Wall Street Journal, AI will be everywhere by 2030. From smart robots to AI-driven industries, the boundaries between reality and fiction will almost disappear.

7️⃣ ChatGPT Joins WhatsApp

You can now chat with ChatGPT directly in WhatsApp by adding its number: +1-800-242-8478. Powered by GPT-4o-mini, the bot is available only in regions where OpenAI operates officially. In the U.S., users can even call it by phone.

#top #ChatGPT @hiaimediaen

Musk's Predictions: Robots in Factories and Mars Colonization by 2025?

Billionaire and visionary Elon Musk shared his technological forecasts for 2025 at the Future Investment Initiative Institute Summit in Saudi Arabia. Here are the key takeaways from the founder of xAI and SpaceX.

🧠 AI Will Surpass Human Intelligence

AI models surpassing human intelligence are expected to emerge by the end of 2025. AI is projected to improve tenfold each year, and by 2029, it could match humanity's cognitive capabilities on a planetary scale.

The likelihood of a positive outcome for AI development is 80–90%, but there remains a 10–20% risk that things could go wrong.

🤖 Humanoid Robots in Production

Tesla plans to introduce humanoid robots in its factories by 2025 and start selling Optimus androids to other companies a year later at $20,000–25,000 per unit. By 2040, the number of humanoid robots is expected to exceed the global human population.

🚐 Autonomous Transportation

Tesla aims to launch fully autonomous robotaxis in California and Texas by 2025. The company has unveiled the Cybercab concept, a two-seater robotaxi without a steering wheel or pedals that relies on cameras and AI for navigation.

🟠 Mars Exploration

The first Starship missions to Mars are planned within the next two years. Initial missions will be uncrewed, and human landings are expected by the end of the decade.

🌞 Energy Demand

The growing demand for energy from AI and electric transportation will become a major technological challenge. In the future, the Sun will be the primary energy source. Energy prospects are linked to the Kardashev scale, which measures a civilization's ability to harness the resources around it.

✨ An Era of Abundance

With advancements in robots and AI, humanity could enter an era of abundance, where goods and services are produced at near-zero marginal cost. This transformation might lead to a shift from "universal basic income" to "universal high income." Such changes could herald a post-capitalist society, where access to technology drives prosperity instead of traditional labor.

Do you think Musk's predictions will come true?

❤️ — Yes, he knows what he's talking about!
🤔 — It sounds more like science fiction…

#predictions #Musk @hiaimediaen

💡 Key Statements from AI Visionaries of 2024

Will artificial intelligence replace humans? And if so, how soon? Will we hit the "ceiling" of technological development? And what awaits us in the distant future? Even scientists, founders, and heads of the largest AI companies do not have a unified opinion.

Here are the main statements of the most authoritative AI visionaries for 2024.

On the superiority of AI over humans:

💻 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI: AI, which can do almost anything a human brain can do, will arrive sooner than most people think.

🖥 Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic: Is it realistic for AI to become smarter than humans? It depends on the field. In biology there is a lot of room at the top for AIs to become smarter. It may be far away in other areas, such as resolving conflicts.

📱 Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta: Even cats have a mental model of the physical world, persistent memory, and some reasoning and planning abilities—none of which the most advanced AI models possess. It can easily take decades to create a human-level AI.

Automation and AI agents:

💰 Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures: Billions of robots will perform more work than all humanity today. This will free people from routine and difficult tasks.

💻 Mustafa Suleyman, ahead of Microsoft AI: The agent must be able to articulate boundaries, to refuse to comply. If we can nail that, we let it buy things for you on your behalf, negotiate on your behalf, enter into a contract on your behalf, or plan a schedule.

🖥 Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate in Physics in 2024: The plumber's job will remain even when the AI becomes dominant. Because these things aren't yet very good at physical manipulation. That'll probably be the last thing they're very good at.

Technology and barriers:

🟢 Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia: Nvidia aims to double or triple the performance of its chips every year over the next decade while cutting their energy consumption by the same factor. "I wouldn't be surprised if we're going to be on some kind of hyper Moore's Law curve," Huang said.

🖥 Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former Chief Scientist of OpenAI: The "bottleneck" for AI scaling is data shortage. Just as oil is a finite resource, the internet contains a limited amount of human-created content.

On the future of humanity:

🖤 Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX: If we're a multi-planetary civilization, our probable lifespan is much greater. We can explore the galaxy, and perhaps we'll find many long-dead one-planet civilizations out there. Expanding the scope and scale of consciousness will help us better understand what questions to ask about the universe.

📱 Hartmut Neven, founder of Google Quantum AI: A quantum computer will be a gift to future generations, giving them a new tool to solve problems that today are unsolvable.

More on the topic:

🛑 TIME100 AI List of the World's Most Influential People in AI

🛑 Top 5 Lex Fridman Podcasts with lead AI experts

#top #interview @hiaimediaen

📈 Key AI Trends of 2024

Smart chatbots, image generators, advanced recommendation and search engines are just a few of the AI revolution's results, which we are already using.

There are three key tracks of AI development getting a boost in 2024.

🤔 Reasoning models. In September, OpenAI showed o1, the first reasoning AI model. It analyzes the prompt step by step before answering, which allows it to make fewer mistakes and solve complex tasks that ordinary chatbots cannot handle.

Soon, Chinese companies began to present their AI models based on the new paradigm: Qwen (Alibaba's structure) and startup DeepSeek. In December, Google joined the race with an "experimental thinking" Gemini 2.0.

Then OpenAI announced o3. The new model was ranked among the top 200 programmers worldwide and passed the ARC AGI benchmark, which evaluates the ability of AI to solve previously unfamiliar tasks, better than humans.

🎞 AI video quality boom. OpenAI's Sora text-to-video model announced almost a year ago, was released in December. Unexpectedly, according to many users, OpenAI found itself in the position of catching up.

Google's Veo 2 handles complex physics better than Sora, while Kling is at least as good in quality. Meanwhile, with its Gen-3, Runway is conquering Hollywood in partnership with Lionsgate. Video generators are too good now, says Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder, while text models, "relatively speaking, fumble text of few hundred words."

And it's true, confirms Shane Gu, Gemini post-training multilinguality co-lead. Images have a rich structure, allowing for more signals per computation, while text is discrete, and even a single token requires many calculations. Moreover, creating high-quality synthetic text for training a chatbot is challenging, whereas producing many acceptable-quality videos requires a $50 camera.

🤖 Agents: the next level of AI systems. The models will not just process and output information like a "black box", but will be able to interact with the environment, make decisions, and work autonomously, replacing human employees.

Sequoia, a major venture capital fund, released a report estimating the AI agent market at trillions of dollars.

Anthropic's Claude can already use computer UI like a human. The same technology develops OpenAI and other companies.

Deloitte predicts that in 2025, 25% of those companies already using generative AI will start implementing AI agents.

❔ How do you think, what was the key AI trend of 2024? Answer in the comments!

#top #predictions @hiaimediaen

👋 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from the final Week 52 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.

▎TO READ

💲 Top-7 AI-related companies that raised the most money in 2024.

📱 AI gadgets of 2024: a bark "translator," a piano with AI, a fluffy robot, and other unusual things.

📚 Holiday booklist by Bill Gates.

🖌 Botto, an AI artist, creates paintings that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

🎵 Semiconductor's Masterpiece: robot MAiRA conducts the orchestra in Dresden.

🤖 OpenAI is exploring the possibility of developing a humanoid robot.

📕 How The Encyclopaedia Britannica survived the end of the "analog era" and became an AI service.

▎SAVE THIS — IT'S HELPFUL

👗 How to use the Virtual Try-On feature in Kling AI.

🔴 New Year and Superhero style avatar generation is now available in our bot.

▎TO WATCH

📱 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI: On conflict with Musk and his concerns about artificial superintelligence.

📱 Max Jaderberg from Google DeepMind: How AlphaFold is revolutionizing drug discovery and biology.

🌲 The next digest will be in 2025. We wish you happiness and good fortune in the New Year! Thank you for being with us!

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🧬 How Google DeepMind's AlphaFold Is Transforming Biology and Pharma

At TED in San Francisco, Max Jaderberg—lead AI specialist at Isomorphic (a Google DeepMind lab)—shared how AlphaFold 3 is revolutionizing drug discovery and deepening our understanding of biology.

Key insights:

1️⃣ AlphaFold and the biological revolution

AlphaFold has driven a breakthrough in predicting the 3D structures of proteins—one of biology’s core challenges for the past 50 years. It was for this achievement that Demis Hassabis and John Jumper from Google DeepMind received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

In just six years since its debut, AlphaFold has helped researchers save what amounts to millions of years of "wet-lab" effort, condensing months of experiments into mere seconds of neural network compute.

Artificial intelligence is taking computer modeling to a whole new level. Now we can move beyond running complex calculations on a cosmic scale and instead dive into detailed modeling of cellular and molecular processes that cannot be fully captured by traditional equations.

2️⃣ Rising costs in drug development

Since the 1950s, bringing a new drug to market has grown exponentially more expensive (Eroom's Law). Meanwhile, computing power—once ruled by Moore's Law and now by "Huang's Law" for GPU performance—has soared. This surge in computational resources offers a path to surmount the challenges in pharma. As Jaderberg notes, scientists and drug designers can now "play" with an AI analog of biomolecular systems, instantly modifying molecular structures to see how well they bind to target proteins—work that used to take months in a real lab.

Now drug developers can "play" with a computer model: they can modify a molecule's chemical structure and see how it binds to a protein. Today, this takes few seconds—whereas it once required months of experiments.

3️⃣ AI agents join the game

Not only can humans interact with these AI analogs, but so can AI agents themselves. Thousands of agents running in parallel on large GPU clusters can rapidly search for potential drug candidates against various mutations, cancer types and other diseases. It's another step toward truly personalized medicine, where a therapy could be tailored to an individual patient's specific protein mutations.

📱 Watch the full TED here.

More on this topic:

🛑 The Largest AI Model for Protein Design

🛑 AI to Search for New Antibiotics


#AITED #Google #DeepMind @hiaimediaen

💲 One-Third of All 2024 Investments Went to AI

Artificial intelligence accounted for about a third of all venture capital investments in the US in 2024. These are seven AI-related companies that investors found the most attractive this year.

1️⃣ $12 billion Elon Musk's xAI raised two monster funding rounds of $6 billion each. Investors include Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz funds, Morgan Stanley Bank, Nvidia, and the Qatar Investment Authority. xAI is now worth about $50 billion.

2️⃣ $10 billion was raised by cloud computing startup Databricks, coming from 12 investors in one round. The company's valuation today is $62 billion.

3️⃣ $6.6 billion was raised by OpenAI in October, making it the company's largest funding round ever. It is now valued at $157 billion and is among the top three most expensive startups in the world, along with SpaceX and TikTok parent company ByteDance. OpenAI also received $4 billion in credit funding.

4️⃣ $5.6 billion was received by Waymo, a startup developing autonomous driving technology. The company's value has reached $45 billion.

5️⃣$4.75 billion in venture capital and corporate funding was raised by Anthropic, the developer of Claude. Earlier this year, the company received a $750 million investment from Menlo Ventures and, in November, another $4 billion from Amazon Corporation. Anthropic is now valued at about $40 billion.

6️⃣ $1.1 billion was raised by CoreWeave, another startup specializing in cloud computing. The company is valued at $19 billion.

7️⃣ $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation was raised by Safe Superintelligence, an AI research lab of OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and investor Daniel Gross.

More on the topic:

➡️ Why Are Jeff Bezos and OpenAI Investing Millions in "Brains" for Robots?

➡️ Over $1 billion investment in an AI startup

#OpenAI #Musk @hiaimediaen

📱Top Unusual AI Gadgets of 2024

In 2024, AI-powered gadgets emerged for almost everything—from communicating with animals to self-discovery, playing the piano, and beyond. Here are the seven most unique innovations of the year.

🧭 Terra AI: Mindful Walks with AI

This pocket-sized device uses vibrations and a compass-like indicator to guide you through your surroundings, allowing you to navigate without distraction from your smartphone.

🔄 Friend: An AI Buddy Who Listens

The Friend pendant features a microphone that records everything around its wearer throughout the day and sends insightful comments to a connected app.

🦆 AX Visio: AI Binoculars for Birdwatching

With a library of 8,000 bird species, the AX Visio binoculars use neural networks to identify birds in real-time—just point and discover.

🎹 Roli Airwave: AI-Powered Piano for Learning Music

The Roli Airwave stand tracks hand movements and features an AI teacher that provides live feedback on your performance and answers questions through voice interaction.

💤 Cradlewise: An AI Crib for Better Baby Sleep

The Cradlewise smart crib analyzes a baby's sleep patterns using cameras and sensors. It soothes the baby automatically and notifies parents when intervention is needed.

🐰 Moflin: A Furry Robot That Feels

Moflin resembles a hamster or earless rabbit. Its AI recognizes voices and touch, adapting to its owner over time. After 50 days, it responds with over 4 million behavioral combinations. Moflin thrives on affection but shows signs of distress when ignored.

🐶 Shazam Band: An AI Collar That "Translates" Your Dog's Thoughts

The Shazam Band collar analyzes your dog's emotional and physical state, location, diet, bark patterns, and activity levels. Its built-in chatbot "voices" your dog's emotions in one of 27 selectable personas, from a "mafia boss" to a "superhero."

More on the topic:

➡️ CES 2024: Highlights of AI Innovations in Las Vegas

➡️ Altman and Ive Collaborate on Revolutionary AI Device

#gadgets #top @hiaimediaen

📚 The World's Oldest English Encyclopedia—Now Powered by AI

The Encyclopaedia Britannica is the world's oldest print encyclopedia in English. Its first edition was published in 1768 in Edinburgh. Since then, the encyclopedia has been constantly edited and updated: the last, 15th edition, consisting of 32 volumes and weighing almost 60 kg, was published in 2010.

The end of the "analog era," growing digitalization, and the emergence of Wikipedia became challenges for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. However, the company, now known as Britannica Group, has figured out how to survive and thrive, completely moving its content online and implementing artificial intelligence in its products.

💻 A new era: the AI encyclopedia

Now, Britannica.com and Merriam-Webster's online dictionary draw more than 7 billion views yearly, with users in more than 150 countries. By comparison, Wikipedia has about 6.7 billion monthly users.

Encyclopaedia Britannica has started actively using AI tools in content generation, translation, fact-checking, and online learning to keep up with its competitor.

➡️ The company acquired the Melingo AI platform for language learning and dictionary creation and started selling AI agent software for customer services and data mining.

➡️ Encyclopaedia Britannica has also launched its own free ChatGPT-4-based chatbot trained on the encyclopedia's entire online information stores. The developers say the bot is much less prone to hallucinations than the more generalized chatbots. However, they still recommend users verify all important information. English is the primary language, but Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and other languages are supported as well.

➡️ The company also has several Britannica Education projects powered by generative AI in the pipeline. For example, an English-language tutoring software that uses the technology to customize lessons for each student, and the Teach Britannica platform to help teachers create lesson plans.

➡️ Britannica Group plans to go public soon and hopes to be valued at $1 billion or more.

More on the topic:

🔄 Perplexity Launches "AI Wikipedia"

🔄 How AI is changing education

#education #news @hiaimediaen

🖌 Botto: an AI-Artist Whose Work is Worth Millions

Botto is an AI artist created four years ago at the ElevenYellow Creative Lab by a team led by Mario Klingemann, a German artist, AI developer, and former Google Arts & Culture Lab resident.

Botto's style ranges from minimalism to surrealism and cubism. His work has already participated in 30 prestigious exhibitions around the world, and since its launch, Botto has earned more than $4M.

At a recent Sotheby's auction in New York, several of Botto's paintings sold for over $350,000 (how would you price them yourself? ⤴️).

 ⚙️ How Botto works

One of Botto's principles is "no human intervention." He uses a handful of AI models to produce his paintings, including VQGAN, different versions of Stable Diffusion, and even Kandinsky 2.1. The CLIP algorithm randomly creates the text prompts, and GPT or Claude creates the images' descriptions and titles.


Every week, Botto generates tens of thousands of images, of which a random 350 are shown to a decentralized autonomous organization: DAO. It plays a defining role in the AI artist's work direction. Participants choose which of Botto's works are considered art and should be put up for sale via the SuperRare auction platform. 

The community also uses a special crypto token to vote for Botto's style for the next period of his work. Recently, the ninth era, Synthetic Stories, came to an end. Before, it was "Absurdism," "Morphogenesis," and "Paradox."

❔ Is it art or not?

The project's operators insist that artificial intelligence will soon be able to create more interesting work than humans.

"With Botto, it strips away this myth of the lone genius artist and shows how artwork is really a collective meaning-making process," explains Simon Hudson, one of Botto's creators.

"My work probes the intersection of algorithm and aesthetics, challenging the notion of authorship in the digital age," Botto himself says of his work via chatbot Claude.

What do you think of Botto's artwork?

❤️ — I love it, very modern.
🤔 — It's beautiful but no soul...
🙈 — It's not real art!

#news #art @hiaimediaen

🔴 Christmas and Superheroes: Create Unique Avatars from a Single Photo

Hi there! New themes for avatar generation by photo are now available on @GPT4Telegrambot:
🎄 Christmas / New Year
👉 Superheroes

The fan-favorites styles are still here:
⚫️ Hollywood
⚫️ Detective
⚫️ Style Mix

How to create avatars?
1️⃣ Go to @GPT4Telegrambot
2️⃣ Purchase the "Avatars" option in the /photo section of the bot.
3️⃣ Tap "Create Avatars."
4️⃣ Upload your best selfie and choose a theme.

✅ Within 15 minutes, the bot will generate and send you 100 avatars featuring your face in various styles!

Try it today and share your favorite avatars with friends!

📱 Sam Altman: "The Conflict with Elon Musk Makes Me Tremendously Sad"

In a recent interview with The New York Times, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke candidly about his conflict with Elon Musk, whose legal battle with OpenAI has been going on for nearly a year, the tensions with Microsoft, OpenAI's main investor, and his concerns about the world after the arrival of artificial superintelligence.

Highlights:

➡️ About Musk. I grew up with Elon as like a mega hero. I thought what Elon was doing was absolutely incredible for the world, and I'm still glad he exists. We started OpenAI together, and then, at some point, he totally lost faith in OpenAI and decided to go his own way. He's a competitor. And that's sad to see.

➡️ About Musk's relationship with Trump. I believe strongly that Elon will do the right thing and that it would be profoundly un-American to use political power to the degree that Elon has it to hurt your competitors and advantage your own businesses. And I don't think people would tolerate that. I don't think Elon would do it.

➡️ About the tension with Microsoft. I don't think we're disentangling. I will not pretend that there are no misalignments or challenges. We need lots of compute, more than we projected. And that has just been an unusual thing in the history of business, to scale that quickly. And there's been tension on that.

➡️ About Strong Artificial Intelligence (AGI). The point at which artificial intelligence can do almost anything a human brain can do will arrive sooner than most people think. Still, many safety concerns don't come at the AGI moment. AGI can be built, but the world mostly goes the same way. The economy moves faster, and things grow faster, but maybe not in the first few years. And I do not believe in no work—I think we'll always find things to do.

➡️ True superintelligence (ASI), the system that is smarter than all of us put together—even if we can make that technically safe, which I assume we'll figure out, we will have some faith in our governments. There will have to be global coordination, which seems challenging.

➡️ About Copyright. We do need a new deal, standard protocol, for how creators are going to get rewarded. For example, micropayments if you generate a story in the style of a particular writer. 

📱 You can watch the full interview here.

More on the topic:

🛑 Sam Altman: "AGI Might Appear in 2025"

🛑 Why Does Sam Altman Need His Cryptocurrency

#interview #OpenAI #Altman #Мusk @hiaimediaen

📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 51 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.

▎OPENAI "SHIPMAS"

💻 OpenAI o3: a new generation of reasoning AI. It writes code at the level of top programmers and solves tasks at a PhD level. In the ARC AGI reasoning benchmark, o3 scores 87.5%—more than humans.

🖼️ You can now chat with ChatGPT on WhatsApp and make phone calls.

🔎 ChatGPT Search — AI-powered web search is now free and available as the default search option.

▎NEW RELEASES

🎥 The new text-to-video model Kling 1.6 is already available in our bot — it creates videos up to 10 seconds long in 1080p resolution.

🖼️ Google has shown Veo 2, its state-of-the-art video generation model. The model will create 4K videos up to 2 minutes long.

▎TO READ

👩‍💻 Rainier — the most powerful supercomputer from Amazon.

💤 The Cradlewise smart crib monitors baby sleep using AI.

🕶 Moohan — XR glasses by Google and Samsung.

🇪🇺 EU has allocated €10.6B to develop a rival to Elon Musk's Starlink.

📷 AI-powered cameras detect drunk drivers.

🖊 People like AI-generated poetry, but they wouldn't admit it.

🖥 AI pretends to change views, says new Anthropic's study.

▎TO PLAY

🌏 Games with infinite worlds: Project Artemis by PUBG creator, space simulators, and Minecraft.

▎TO WATCH

▶️ OpenAI's co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, spoke at NeurIPS about the perspective of AI development while we are running out of data.

📺 "Sunny" — a dramedy series about technophobia, loss, and friendship with a robot.

#AIweek @hiaimediaen