🤝 Google partners with AI startup Replit to take on Microsoft’s GitHub

☠️ AI ‘godfather’ on AI possibly wiping out humanity

▶️ YouTuber Tom Bilyeu and Raoul Pal chat about the AI revolution

🛒 How Walmart is using AI to make shopping better for customers

Google partners with AI startup Replit to take on Microsoft’s GitHub

Read the press release for the partnership announcement between Google and Replit.

What you need to know:

• Replit announces strategic partnership with Google Cloud

• Replit developers get access to Google Cloud infrastructure, services, foundation models

• Google Cloud and Workspace developers get access to Replit’s collaborative platform

• Partnership aims to accelerate generative AI application creation

• Replit has 20 million developers, plans to empower the next 1 billion software creators

• AI is changing software development; Replit’s Ghostwriter generates 30% of code

• Partnership provides full power of LLMs in integrated development environment

• Ghostwriter offers real-time debugging, monetization, and collaborative features

• Partnership supports Google Cloud’s goal of accelerating development with AI

AI ‘godfather’ on AI possibly wiping out humanity

Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist who has been called “the godfather of artificial intelligence”, says it is “not inconceivable” that AI may develop to the point where it poses a threat to humanity.

What you need to know:

• Hinton believes general purpose AI could be developed within 20 years or less, faster than his previous estimates.

• General purpose AI has multiple intended and unintended applications, such as speech recognition, answering questions, and translation.

• Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the potential ability for an AI agent to learn any mental task a human can do, but has not been developed yet.

• Hinton suggests that we must think about controlling AI’s ability to create ideas to improve itself.

• He believes people should be concerned about AI’s consequences now, even though they won’t happen in the next few years.

• AI software, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has been growing in popularity and capabilities, sparking discussions about their potential impact.

Read the full article on Yahoo News

AI REVOLUTION: The #1 MEGATHREAT to Our Economy

Notes from the show:

Right now there are two kinds of people reading this. You’re either super excited about AI and all of the latest applications you can use with AI, or you’re from the camp of people ready to hunker down and start the doomsday clock.

The best part of this episode is considering a range of possibilities across a spectrum of the implications of artificial intelligence. Raoul Pal joins Tom this time to deep dive on what kind of economic threat A.I. could be to the global economy.

AI is quite possibly the end of civilization as we know it to be, it is also the beginning of untapped unimaginable outcomes for all of us.

Raoul Pal is a retired hedge fund manager who co-founded Real Vision, a financial media company that offers interviews and publications from the world’s best investors. As the macro economist that Britain called on for help, his insights into the current recession, global economy, and volatile markets are well respected.

A few reason this conversation will get you thinking even deeper on AI and the economy:

• To get informed now and decide how you respond to the arrival of the next level of AI.

• AI also allows us to do things we weren’t able to because we either lacked the talent or the skill

• This recession has been miserable but it’s still a natural cycle for us to go through Raoul shares his insights on if we’ve hit the bottom and are bouncing back or if we should proceed with even greater caution than before

How Walmart is using AI to make shopping better for customers

Walmart’s massive presence with 4,700 stores and 600 Sam’s Clubs in the U.S. and employing 1.6 million workers has an incredible use case to deploy AI at scale. This CNBC article discusses how Walmart is using A.I. to make shopping better.

What you need to know:

• Walmart is utilizing AI to improve customer and employee experiences across its stores.

• Warehouse chain Sam’s Club uses the membership model to gather massive amounts of customer data, allowing them to enhance the shopping experience.

• Sam’s Club uses floor scrubbers equipped with inventory intelligence towers to monitor store items, taking 20 million photos of shelves daily.

• AI algorithms discern product brands and their inventory positions with 95% accuracy, allowing for automated restocking and increased employee productivity.

• The Walmart shopping app uses AI to recognize customer purchase patterns and suggest appropriate product sizes.

• The company’s goal is to reduce friction between what customers want and what they ultimately buy, making shopping for everyday items effortless.

Read the full article on CNBC.com

Cool AI stuff

Below are some tools helpful productivity tools.

Pickaxe – Pickaxe is an AI-driven solution that enables users to effortlessly create tools without needing programming expertise. It also offers a platform for discovering existing AI tools and fosters collaboration and sharing within the Pickaxe community.

SheetAI – SheetAI is a Google Workspace Add-on that harnesses AI capabilities to enhance spreadsheets. It empowers users to automate data analysis, extract insights from data, generate images, and create Sheets formulas using AI, ultimately leading to improved decision-making and time-saving.

GPT For Sheets – The GPT Sheets Add-on allows users to access the powerful features of OpenAI GPT-3 within Google Sheets. It introduces two straightforward custom functions, =GPT and =GPT_LIST, useful for tasks like generating blog post ideas, crafting paragraphs or procedures, refining lists, categorizing reviews, summarizing, responding to comments, and experimenting with hyperparameters. The add-on is free, charging only for OpenAI’s API usage.

Have a cool AI tool to share? Send it to us on Instagram, Twitter, or email and we’ll consider it for an upcoming publication!

Featured AI art of the day

Today’s Midjourney prompt is a great example of utilizing lighting commands as well as specific camera, lens, and focus parameters to get a very realistic looking photo.

Prompt: A teenaged girl sits in the light of late afternoon. Her arm is up over her head partially shading her eyes. Her eyes reflect the light, bringing out their blue. She wears a thin black crop top with a deep V-neck and no jewelery. Award-winning, portrait photograph shot with Kodak Portra 800, a Hasselblad 500C, 85mm f/1.8 lens, extreme depth of field, avaliable light, high contrast, Ultra HD, HDR, DTM, 8K.