🤖 Robots taking over BMW factories.

Good morning,

Monday brings quite a lot of robot news today, and we also look into ChatGPT prompts and converting sketches to logos. Let’s dive in.

⚡️ Buzz News

• Japan introduces a 12 metre high enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines but it looks like a thing from an 80s sci-fi movie.

• Microsoft's VALL-E 2 AI voice cloning tech is so good that it creates human level performance, but they won’t use it.

• Mind reading AI accurately reads your brain activity and turns thoughts into almost identical images.

• RoboTaxi in Phoenix was pulled over by the police for driving unattended on the wrong side of the road, all caught on a bodycam.

• BYD is set to take the crown from Tesla in 2024 EV Sales.

AI Robots
🤖 ‘Figure 01’ robots working at BMW factories.

The Buzz: In January 2024, California-based robotics firm Figure signed its first commercial agreement with BMW to deploy its humanoid robot, Figure 01. Figure recently released a video showing the robot participating in the vehicle assembly process, showcasing its fully autonomous capabilities.

🔑 Key Points:

1. Humanoid Robots in Action: Figure 01 is fully autonomous, and performs tasks such as handling sheet metal and operating in the body shop. The robot is 1.6 meters tall and weighs 132 pounds.

2. Advanced AI Capabilities: Powered by a vision-language model from OpenAI, Figure 01 converts camera pixels into actions, ensuring precise manipulations and navigation.

3. Future of Automation: Figure aims to address labor shortages by scaling humanoid robots to manage billions of tasks.

Takeaway: Figure 01 marks a significant step in workforce automation, showcasing advanced AI-driven capabilities in manufacturing settings. With partnerships like BMW and support from OpenAI, Figure is poised to address labor challenges and increase productivity through automation.

^{Source: FigureAI}

AI Prompting
💬 Compilation of ChatGPT prompts

Reddit is a great source of ways to use ChatGPT. Here is 3x prompts to make ChatGPT a little more useful.

• Preparing for job interviews.

You are an interviewer at [Company Name] who is hiring for an open [Position Title] role. You are an expert [Position Title]. Please ask me [5] interview questions, one at a time, and wait for my responses. At the end of the [5] questions, provide me with feedback on all of my answers and coach me in how to improve.

• Summarising weekly work accomplishments.

I work as a [insert profession]. Please read my daily notes for the week and revise, organize, and compile them into a summary of my accomplishments for the week. Please also provide feedback about how I can improve in my work for next week.

• Custom bedtime stories (for kids/parents).

[Bobby], a 2 year old toddler had a big day today. He [went to the playground, played in water, played in the hammock in the garden, and went to the library]. Can you tell him a bedtime story about his day in the theme of Dr. Seuss?

^{Source: Reddit}

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AI at work
💻️ Convert a hand drawn sketch to a logo concept.

Have you ever scribbled on paper and wanted to get some design inputs from your ideas? Let’s use CoPilot to generate some examples.

• Goto CoPilot and login
  https://copilot.microsoft.com/

• Upload your paper drawing and use the prompt below

Give me a detailed description of this image.

• Then simply prompt it to make a logo / art / carton from the description provided from the sketch.

Create a logo featuring the cocktail glass with vibrant colours. Below the glass, include the words spelt exactly "Brooklyn Bar" and do not use any other letters.

• You will get multiple concepts for your new hand drawn logo

“Three men wearing black fur armour with white accents are in the middle of construction a house near a river. cinematic lighting, epic scene, highly detailed, slightly snowy on the grass, intricately detailed, hyperrealistic, sharp focus, illustration, 8K --v 6.0 --ar 3:2”

AI productivity
🔨 Tools to take your workflow to the next level.

1. Tess is an AI Image Generator that pays artists when you use their visual style. Artists can generate their own revenue by training your own custom model on your art.

2. Released is the new standard for product communication. Transform Jira tickets into shareable roadmaps and release notes. Keep customers and stakeholders in the loop.

3. IdeaPicker generates business ideas by scanning Reddit for pain points of real people to help with startup ideas.

4. Lovo is a hyper realistic AI voice generator to create engaging videos with voice for marketing, training, social media, and more.

5. Clay helps your RevOps & growth teams implement any outreach idea with better data enrichment by syncing your CRM leads.