Examples of AI
January 2024
- Yelp introduces AI-powered business summaries that make it easier to find a business that fits your needs with a quick glance.
- Etsy launches generative AI ‘Gift Mode’ to suggest personalized presents. By inputting a few simple details about the intended gift recipient, the AI efficiently pairs shoppers with unique and special items from Etsy sellers, organized into over 200 distinct recipient personas.
- NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) microservices debuted at CES 2024 with generative AI models for digital avatars. NVIDIA ACE is a technology platform that uses generative AI to animate digital avatars. Initially, a player’s spoken words are converted into text by NVIDIA’s speech recognition technology. This text is then processed by an LLM to create a response for the character. Subsequently, a text-to-speech system vocalizes this response, and an animation model ensures the character’s lip movements are in sync with the audio. Ultimately, this animated character is integrated into the game environment. Here’s a great video.
February 2024
- Using machine learning to predict Bordeaux red wine origins and vintages from raw gas chromatograms. The study involved 80 Bordeaux red wines from 7 estates and produced 99% correct estate classification and 50% correct vintage classification.
- OpenAI is reportedly developing AI agents capable of automating complex tasks like transferring data from a document to a spreadsheet, or filling out expense reports and entering them into accounting software. They are also working on an agent that can do web-based tasks or research to create itineraries and book flight tickets.
- Pilot project uses AI to prevent suicide in Montreal Metro
- The NFL and Amazon Web Services have partnered to improve player health and safety through the development of the Digital Athlete, using AI and machine learning to predict and prevent injuries by analyzing a vast array of player data and running millions of game simulations. Video here
- LYT is a cloud-based platform that leverages connected vehicle and machine learning technologies to improve how vehicles move through cities and along traffic corridors. By prioritizing public transport, emergency services, and other vehicles, LYT helps reduce travel times, decrease traffic congestion, enhance air quality, and make mass transit more dependable. For example, LYT.emergency’s advanced Emergency Vehicle Preemption (EVP) system allows emergency vehicles to navigate through busy intersections more quickly, safely, and smartly than before. By using just one edge device in a Traffic Management Center (TMC), emergency vehicles can communicate with all the connected traffic signals in a city via the LYT cloud platform. This ensures that emergency vehicles receive a green light at every intersection for every call, offering a more cost-effective solution compared to other EVP options on the market.
- Google is set to move audiences by demonstrating how AI can empower a visually impaired individual to snap a selfie, underscoring AI’s potential to foster human well-being at a time when many are expressing concern about AI.
- Coca-Cola is using AI in its Field of Fake Body Armor Sports Drink spot to promote that its beverage is made from “real” ingredients and that “nothing in sports should be artificial.
- Microsoft, after a four-year hiatus, marks its grand re-entry by spotlighting AI’s role in enhancing human experiences and aiding in the attainment of our goals and aspirations. MSFT is leaning into the message that AI is not just a technological marvel but a partner in elevating the human journey.
- A team of three students won $700,000 for using AI to read passages from an ancient papyrus scroll that had been burned.
- Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
March 2024
- Google Research has just unveiled VLOGGER, a revolutionary framework that brings single images to life with dynamic videos created from audio inputs. Imagine generating lifelike videos of people talking, complete with head motion, gaze, lip movement, and even upper-body gestures, all from a single photo and a piece of audio!
- YouTube will require creators to mark AI-generated content, attaching labels to clarify when videos have been significantly edited, aiming to reduce misinformation, especially on sensitive topics.
- Amazon’s new feature allows DTC sellers to integrate their product listings onto Amazon’s marketplace with ease by submitting their website URL, using generative AI to create tailored, high-quality listings, streamlining the process for U.S. sellers.
- Salesforce launches Einstein Copilot: Health Actions, leverages conversational AI for healthcare workflows, enabling professionals to automate tasks like booking appointments and sending referrals through natural language prompts, streamlining patient care and data management.
- Reddit introduces a Harassment Filter powered by a Large Language Model (LLM) that’s trained on moderator actions and content removed by Reddit’s internal tools and enforcement teams.
