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It’s Wednesday. Let’s get to it:

• 🇨🇳 China Releases OpenAI Rival

• 🎨 A.I Robot Stars In Commerical

• 🕵️‍♂️ A.I Detectors Threaten EU Plans

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🇨🇳 China Releases OpenAI Rival

Late last week Alibaba (a major Chinese company) released China’s first major text-to-image tool named “Tongyi Wanxiang.”

(‘Wanxiang’ means ‘tens of thousands of images’)

As an A.I image generating addict….I had to check it out.

Here’s a quick side-by-side for ya:

IMO, Tongyi Wanxiang generated a better overall image than DALL-E, but Midjourney takes the cake with more detail and the best lighting.

Either way, it’s a big step for China who’s been trailing behind the U.S. in generative A.I (A.I that creates content like images, text, videos, etc).

Why is China so far behind? Alibaba and other Chinese tech giants are scared to create an “all-encompassing A.I tool” in fear of breaking China’s strict censorship laws.

Simply put, the more content the A.I tool can create, the higher the chances of breaking censorship regulations. Something NO Chinese company wants to gamble with.

But this puts China in a tough spot…

China wants to keep A.I content heavily monitored, but in doing so they are significantly slowing their A.I innovation - keeping them behind the U.S.

Right now the EU is struggling with the same problem as they try to balance A.I regulation and encouraging A.I innovation.

If you ask me, I’d say this is the #1 reason the U.S. has not enforced any strict A.I regulation.

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🎨 A.I Robot Stars In Commerical

With all the new A.I updates going on, we’ve missed some big events in the robotics world…

Most of you have heard of Ameca - the closest robot ever to match human behavior.

Ameca can:

• Talk with humans and other robots in many different languages

• Make facial expressions based on your conversation

• Give public speeches

In the last few days, Engineered Arts (Ameca’s creator) has combined Ameca’s abilities with an A.I image generator - Stability A.I.

Now, you can ask Ameca to draw a picture and the robot will draw it + even sign its name.

Most robotic companies like Figure build their humanoid robots for physical labor or even as security guards. Yet, Engineered Arts builds theirs for entertainment purposes only.

You’ve probably seen their bots in a Jose Cuervo commercial called “Date More Human…”

If not, you can watch the full commercial HERE

Ameca is yet another example of the growing presence of A.I and Robots in media and politics. We’ve already seen:

• Robots speak at an international conference (more on this tomorrow!)

• Celebs contracting out their A.I clones for commercials and movies

• Musicians selling their voices for A.I music

• ChatGPT write and direct its first movie, “The Safezone.”

PS - If you want your own drawing by Ameca, contact [email protected] 

🕵️‍♂️ A.I Detectors Threaten EU Plans

A new study by Standford University showed that A.I detection systems are wrong over 50% of the time.

And that my friends, is a BIG problem. Why?

A.I detection is how we know if something is written or made by A.I. We use it to catch things like:

• Scams/ identity fraud. A new trend popping up where scammers clone children’s voices and call their parents to ask for ransom money. On average, families lose $11,000 in each fake-kidnapping scam in the U.S.

• To label deepfakes. Imagine if someone used A.I to create a video of you stealing something. You’d want to be able to prove that fake.

• Students cheating with ChatGPT on their homework. In the same study, a researcher ran 91 human-written essays through 7 A.I detectors. A.I incorrectly flagged 98% of essays as “ChatGPT generated.”

Yikes.

This will start to make waves in the next few months as the EU tries to pass its Digital Markets Act - an act requiring social media platforms to label all A.I generated content.

But now that platforms can’t determine what is A.I generated and what’s not… the EU will have to halt their plans.

Soon we’ll all have to decide who is responsible for auditing A.I generated content. The government? Social media platforms? The A.I companies?

Decisions. Decisions.

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