Quantum Pill Weekly #025
Empowering minds, one Pill at a time.
💊 Brain.ai: generative AI as smartphone OS
💡Description: Brain.ai introduces a new concept for the future of smartphones by integrating generative AI as the operating system. Generative AI as the foundation for interactions, responses, and interface construction.
💭Mental Meal: Brain.ai's generative AI technology goes beyond smartphones, hinting at a future where AI personalizes and streamlines our interactions with various technologies, from education and entertainment to healthcare and daily tasks.
💊 Adobe unveils AI tool for music creation and editing
💡Description: Adobe has introduced a new AI tool called Project Music GenAI Control. This tool allows users to generate music using text descriptions and then edit the generated audio within the same platform.
💭Mental Meal: Imagine combining Gemini Pro’s processing power with Adobe’s AI tool to generate complete large-scale artistic projects. Anyone with no prior musical experience will be able to turn their musical vision into reality.
💊 Spotify's “Song Psychic”: answers as songs
💡Description: Spotify introduces "Song Psychic," a feature allowing users to ask questions and receive answers in the form of music. It taps into Spotify's vast music library, providing playful responses to personal queries.
💭Mental Meal: Users can choose from various categories like Love, Career, and Life's Greatest Mysteries, and after entering a question, mystical music accompanies swirling colors before unveiling the answer as a song.
💊 Google Genie: AI turning ideas into games
💡Description: Google's DeepMind introduces "Genie," an AI model trained on gameplay videos. This allows users to describe or show an image, and Genie creates a playable 2D platformer game based on it.
💭Mental Meal: Beyond gaming, Genie can potentially teach other AI models about 3D worlds, hinting at broader applications in artificial general intelligence (AGI), revolutionizing fields like education and entertainment.
💊 Remission from blood cancer and HIV in new treatment
💡Description: This marks the fifth person in the world to achieve this feat. He underwent a stem cell transplant with cells from a donor carrying a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV.
💭Mental Meal: With further research and development, this approach could be refined to target a wider range of conditions, revolutionizing healthcare and offering unprecedented hope for millions.
💊 Toyota tests car that captures CO2 while driving
💡Description: Toyota explores a groundbreaking concept by testing cars equipped with built-in filters that capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere while in motion.
💭Mental Meal: These filters utilize waste heat from the engine to convert CO2 into a disposable liquid. Cleaner cars without relying solely on electric vehicles! (alleviating challenges like limited range and infrastructure dependence).
💊 Mistral launches GPT-4 rival and unveils chat assistant
💡Description: Mistral Large aims to compete with industry leaders like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude 2. Additionally, Mistral released Le Chat, a free-to-use chat assistant in beta, offering various model options.
💭Mental Meal: Looking forward to the AI race between major market players, curiously waiting to see if these companies will focus their efforts on general language model applications, or they will try to focus on a specific niche.
💊 Neuralink patient moves cursor with thought
💡Description: Elon Musk's Neuralink company reports success in its first human trial. A patient implanted with the brain-computer interface (BMI) can now control a computer cursor using their thoughts alone.
💭Mental Meal: BMIs could revolutionize how we interact with technology, potentially allowing for more intuitive and natural control of devices or even creating new forms of communication.
💊 Lenovo unveils transparent laptop
💡Description: Lenovo showcased a conceptual "ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop" at MWC 2024. This laptop features a 17.3-inch display that can be completely transparent, allowing users to see through it or utilize the lower half as a drawing tablet.
💭Mental Meal: Imagine artists sketching real-world objects directly onto their laptops or architects using them for transparent overlays on construction sites.
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