Good morning,

Buckle up, because Big Tech is evolving. The giants are turning into gargantuan AI overlords, and the world is on the brink of a seismic shift. We've seen what happens when information power concentrates in a few hands - think political and economic oppression.

Now imagine AI in those hands.

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai warns us - AI is a mirror of us, for better or worse, and it's hurtling towards us faster than a speeding bullet.

But don't be fooled into thinking AI is just a future concern. It's here, it's now, and it's already reshaping businesses across the globe. AI adoption has more than doubled between 2017 and 2022, thanks largely to generative AI.

Even WordPress is in the game now with Jetpack AI Assistant, its very own AI-powered writing companion.

And let's not forget Pandas AI, promising to revolutionize data analysis as we know it. Automation has stormed the castle of data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature engineering.

Here's everything you need to know for Monday...

Latest AI News

Big Tech Is Bad. Big A.I. Will Be Worse – History has shown us that when the distribution of information is left in the hands of a few, the result is political and economic oppression. Without intervention, this history will repeat itself.
Google Discusses Role of AI In The Coming Years – CEO Sundar Pichai says AI will be as good or as evil as human nature allows. And the revolution is coming faster than you know.
AI Has Already Transformed Many, Many Businesses – Between 2017 and 2022, McKinsey reports that AI adoption more than doubled. Gartner found that 45% of executives say the publicity of ChatGPT led to an increase in AI investment, while 70% of companies are exploring generative AI.
Wordpress Goes "ALL IN" On AI, Brings Generative AI To Dashboard – WordPress has announced a proprietary AI-powered writing assistant to help users create and edit blog posts. The new tool, called Jetpack AI Assistant, is now readily available on WordPress.com and seamlessly integrates into the editor interface.
Pandas AI: Is it the Future of Data Analysis? With Pandas AI, data cleaning, preprocessing, feature engineering, and even model selection can be automated, significantly reducing the time and effort required in the data analysis pipeline.

AI Tools Tested

Notion AI

Notion is a tool for productivity. It lets you arrange your thoughts, projects, and your whole business. I've used Notion for years. With Notion AI, it's now even better.

Worn out from constant writing tasks? Meet Notion AI. It's your new AI ally. It crafts content for you. From blog posts to sales emails. With Notion AI, you start from a clean draft, no mess.

Notion AI is smart. It uses high-level language models. It grasps more than words. It gets sentences and paragraphs. It's like having your own pro writer and editor.

Notion AI does more than writing. Need a meeting plan? A pros and cons list? Notion AI handles it. Give it a prompt. It creates your content quickly. It's great for brainstorming, always giving you new ideas.

Notion AI offers personal help. It will write in your company's voice. It will use your internal info. It will keep your privacy. It will become more than a writing tool. It will answer your questions, link to your calendar, manage your tasks.

With Notion AI, you get more than software. You get a partner in productivity. A partner that gets you. So, why wait? Check it out today – it's cheaper and way more useful that ChatGPT Plus.

From Thought to Text: AI Converts Silent Speech into Written Words...

A novel artificial intelligence system, the semantic decoder, can translate brain activity into continuous text. The system could revolutionize communication for people unable to speak due to conditions like stroke.

This non-invasive approach uses fMRI scanner data, turning thoughts into text without requiring any surgical implants. While not perfect, this AI system successfully captures the essence of a person’s thoughts half of the time.

Key Facts:

The semantic decoder AI was developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.
It works based on a transformer model similar to the ones that power Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
The system has potential for use with more portable brain-imaging systems, like functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS).

Read the full report here.

"AI Quote of The Week"

AI will impact everything. So, for example, you could be a radiologist. You know, if I-- if I-- if you think about five to 10 years from now, you're gonna have a AI collaborator with you. It may triage.

You come in the morning. You-- let's say you have 100 things to go through. It may say, 'These are the most serious cases you need to look at first.' Or when you're looking at something, it may pop up and say, 'You may have missed something important.'

Why wouldn't we, why wouldn't we take advantage of a super-powered assistant to help you across everything you do? – Google CEO, Sundar Pichai.