Applied AI Weekly News

Justin Grammens

Woot! Welcome Applied AI Weekly Readers to the latest issue. I'm thrilled to once again share with you the most interesting articles I've found this past week on Artificial Intelligence. Before we go there, here are a few things I wish to share.

I will be speaking at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice on Sept 11th. I'm extremely blessed to have been asked to come to Austin, TX, and share my thoughts on how Artificial Intelligence is already impacting Home Care & Hospice!
I will be doing two speaking sessions at the Midwest Health Promotion Conference on Wednesday, September 25th. The theme this year is Memories, Milestones, Momentum. I'll be speaking on "Weaving Artificial Intelligence into Wellness". If you are in St. Paul, I hope you can attend!
If you haven't heard already the Fall Applied AI Conference is scheduled for Nov 15th. The call of speakers is open and tickets are on sale. THIS WILL SELL OUT - so hurry and get your tickets today!
I'm continuing to offer free consultations and workshops with many business leaders on how AI is changing the landscape of how you will run your business today and into the future. Connect today and book a meeting with me.

Now that we have that covered, please enjoy the articles I have spent time finding and curating for you this past week. Reach out if there's anything you feel I might have missed. Enjoy!

News

Amazon CEO Says Company's AI Assistant Has Saved $260M And 4.5K Developer-Years Of Work

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared in a LinkedIn post on Thursday that Amazon Q has been integrated into the company’s internal systems to streamline foundational software updates. He noted that the average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 dropped from 50 developer days to just a few hours.

Claude Artifacts Is the Greatest Innovation in AI This Year - 5 Prompts to Try It Now

Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet last week, a groundbreaking new AI model that beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o in most tests. Along with the new model, Claude also got a spate of new features including projects and my favorite AI innovation of the year — Artifacts.

OpenAI Supports California AI Bill Requiring 'Watermarking' of Synthetic Content

ChatGPT developer OpenAI is supporting a California bill that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content, which can range from harmless memes to deepfakes aimed at spreading misinformation about political candidates.

JPMorgan Chase Rolls out AI Assistant Powered by ChatGPT

JPMorgan Chase has rolled out a generative AI assistant to tens of thousands of its employees, the initial phase of a broader plan to inject the technology throughout the bank. The program, called LLM Suite, is already helping more than 60,000 employees with tasks like writing emails and reports.

SearchGPT Is a Prototype of New AI Search Features

We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.

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Business

Artificial Intelligence Is Impacting Everything - Including Workload Automation

Automation is everywhere. The word “automation” may make you think of a factory floor with cost-efficient robotic assembly or e-commerce companies with sophisticated operations for massive fulfillment centers.

The End Of Investors’ GenAI Honeymoon

From Goldman to Sequoia, investors are questioning whether the massive investment in AI will ever pay off. Late last month, Goldman Sachs published a remarkable, thirty-two-page report wondering aloud whether all the investment in AI is worth it.

Consumer

'It Looks Like Cat Food': The Grey Goop Dreamed up by Artificial Intelligence

Not sure what to eat tonight? Artificial intelligence wants to tell you what to cook, but are the recipes it creates any good? We put it to the test.

Should I Let Perplexity Crawl My Content? Pitting Legacy Media Intellectual Property Standards Against AI Discoverability

Should I, as a website publisher, be angry that an AI summary engine includes my content in its index? Or should I not be so precious about my intellectual property? Here's how I'm making that data-driven decision.

Video

Watch What’s Next in AI: NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang Talks With WIRED’s Lauren Goode

In a talk at SIGGRAPH 2024, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang chats with WIRED Senior Writer Lauren Goode to explore accelerated computing, generative AI, and the breakthrough research that’s fueling the next wave of innovation, virtual worlds, and robotics.

Development

Andrej Karpathy Announces AI-Native School Eureka Labs

Any questions about what OpenAI and Tesla alum Andrej Karpathy might be cooking up next have been put to rest: The prominent AI researcher and computer scientist took to his account on X today to announce his new venture, Eureka Labs, which he described as a new kind of AI-native school.

Which AI Applications Should You Build? Here's How to Decide

While AI is a general-purpose technology that’s useful for many things, it isn’t good for every task under the sun. How can we decide which concrete use cases to build? If you’re helping a business figure out where to apply AI, I’ve found the following recipe useful as a brainstorming aid consider these ideas from the article.