🖼️ Step into paintings

+ AI agents shop for you

Hey folks,

There is always something weird happening in AI. Over the last few days, the internet went bonkers after finding ChatGPT refused and crashed when asked to say the name “David Mayer”. No one knows why, but it created so much speculation and debate on X and Reddit.. It’s been fixed by ChatGPT now so you can’t try it out, but it shows people love the mystery just as much as the useful things AI can do.

Let’s dive in..

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🖼️ AI converts 2D images into interactive 3D worlds

🐝 The Buzz:  World Labs is developing groundbreaking AI tech that creates entire 3D worlds from just a single image, bringing dynamic and interactive experiences to life with ease. The AI startup is set to transforming industries like video games and virtual education.

  • Upload an image and the 3D world remains consistent, and users can apply real-life physics and filmmaking effects like depth of field.

  • It enhances interactive features such as dynamic lighting and scene modifications, all in a web browser.

  • Take a walk through a Van Gogh painting, or bring to life an image of an environment.

💡 Takeaway: Discovering how an AI can turn a static image into a virtual playground means exciting possibilities for movies, games, and digital spaces. This offers a unique way to experience art, and who wouldn't want to step inside their favorite painting or resize movie sets with just a click? It's an intriguing development for creators and tech enthusiasts alike, allowing for new realms of creativity and interactivity.

 

The Worlds First AI Generalist - Meet Yours

Imagine if you had a digital clone to do your tasks for you. Well, meet Proxy…

Last week, Convergence, the London based AI start-up revealed Proxy to the world, the first general AI Agent.

You can sign up to meet yours!

 

🛍️ AI agents to take over your shopping experience

🐝 The Buzz:  Tech companies are racing to make AI agents handle your online shopping, with Perplexity leading the charge, but not without a few hiccups on the way. These AI agents aim to help you navigate retail websites, find deals, and even check out.

  • Perplexity’s AI shopping agent can navigate sites and purchase items like toothpaste but has some teething issues with inventory.

  • OpenAI and Google are also developing AI shopping tools, which might book flights or order socks.

  • Stripe partners with Perplexity to provide single-use debit cards for transactions to safeguard against hefty missteps.

  • Advertisers and retailers might push back on AI agents as they potentially reroute traffic away from traditional online stores.

💡 Takeaway: Navigating the ups and downs of holiday shopping could get easier with AI agents, but they're still learning the ropes. With big names like OpenAI and Google in the mix, this space is set to change how we interact with online shopping, possibly offering a glimpse into a retail future that keeps asking, "Did you mean to buy those socks?"

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💻️ How to generate a flowchart from an SOP

SOPs can be hard to read and a visual workflow can make it much easier to understand but manually creating one is time-consuming. Miro’s AI can turn text into flowcharts easily.

  • Get your SOP ready, or use ChatGPT to output a structured SOP for your process.

  • Go to Miro and sign up or sign in

  • Create a blank board and select the AI stars “Create with AI

  • Pick Flowchart from the diagrams list

  • Paste your SOP in the Description box and click “Generate Diagram”

  • Watch your SOP text document be transformed into a Workflow diagram

  • AI handles the connections, decision points, and basic styling for you.

🐝 AI buzz bits

🌊 Wired World: Meta's ambitious $10 billion subsea cable project aims to enhance global internet capacity, ensuring reliable infrastructure to support its growing user traffic demands.

🎮 AI Society Sims: In a Minecraft experiment, up to 1000 AI agents autonomously developed human-like behaviors, such as forming friendships, creating jobs, and spreading religion, showcasing AI's potential to mimic complex social dynamics.

🛡️ Privacy Protector: The "Chameleon" AI model creates personalized digital masks to shield images from facial recognition, maintaining photo quality and enhancing privacy from unauthorized scanning.

📜 New Horizons: NVIDIA releases a PDF workflow to extract insights from text, charts, and tables no matter the size.

🖼️ Generative Art

santa claus in a gundam exosuit mech robot, full body action shot, realistic 3d render, glossy, ambient occlusion, depth of field, clean background

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

  1. Guidde is the generative AI platform for business that helps your team create video documentation 11x faster.

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  3. Efibot - Empower your team with a customizable AI assistant to boost productivity and streamline communication in collaborative workspaces. 

  4. Momen - Empower businesses to build, deploy, and scale no-code apps effortlessly with robust features for seamless development.

🤘 Wacky Wed

ChatGPT refused to say the name “David Mayer”

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