'AI Girlfriends' to Become a $1B Business...? 💸

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A tech executive believes AI girlfriends will be the next big thing, predicting it will soon become a $1 billion business.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• A Chart to Kickstart Your Day 📈: % of AI talent with graduate degrees

• Tech Exec Predicts AI-Generated Girlfriends Will Create $1B Business 💸

• AI Research: New Method for Editing AI-Generated Images by Dragging Them

• AI Tutorial: How to summarize your favorite podcasts with AI

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

A chart to kickstart your day

% of AI talent with graduate degrees

• Fewer than half of hires in AI/ML roles have graduate degrees, with only about a third of ML engineers having one.

• Requiring graduate degrees can reduce the number of qualified applicants for these roles.

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AI & SOCIETY

Tech Exec Predicts AI-Generated Girlfriends Will Create $1B Business 💸

Tech executive Greg Isenberg, CEO of Late Checkout, predicts a massive new market for AI dating apps and "AI girlfriends." Isenberg shared insights from a meeting with a man in Miami who reportedly spends $10,000 per month on customized virtual partners.

Details:

• Isenberg noted that the current market cap for Match Group, the company behind major dating apps like Tinder and Hinge, is $9 billion. He believes someone will likely build the "AI version of Match Group" and also make billions.

• Platforms like Candy.ai and Kupid.ai already enable users to customize virtual partners, selecting physical attributes and personality traits.

• A recent survey from Infobip found that nearly 20% of Americans have flirted with chatbots, with many motivated by curiosity or loneliness. However, 17% said they were unaware they were talking to an AI.

While the technology raises complex questions, AI-generated partners could indeed become a major new business in the years ahead.

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AI RESEARCH

New Method for Editing AI-Generated Images by Dragging Them

Researchers from Nanjing University and Tencent have developed a new AI-based image editing method called “StableDrag”.

Details:

• The StableDrag method enables users to adjust the placement of objects, figures, and other elements within an image while preserving the correct perspective and visual coherence.

• StableDrag builds on previous editing methods such as FreeDrag, DragDiffusion, and Drag-GAN, and it outperforms them by a wide margin in benchmark tests.

• For example, the technique can be used to change the viewing angle of the "Mona Lisa" by dragging her nose to a new position, as demonstrated in the provided image.

• The tool works effectively across a variety of image types, including photos, illustrations, and other AI-generated content featuring subjects like people, cars, landscapes, and animals.

The researchers have stated that they plan to open-source the code in the near future. You can check out more examples of this tool in action here.

AI Tutorial

How to summarize your favorite podcasts with AI

If you're short on time to listen to your favorite podcasts, you can use AI to summarize them into a quick read.

Follow these steps:

1. Go to Podbean 

Here we’ll search and download the audio of the podcast episodes.

2. Go to Podcastle and sign up for free

Select "Transcribe" and upload the audio. Once it is uploaded, right-click on it and select "Transcribe" again.

Select the number of speakers and the language and wait a few seconds.

3. Download as PDF

Once the transcript is generated, click on “Export” and download it as a pdf

4. Get the summary

Upload the PDF of the podcast transcript to ChatGPT and add the following prompt:

This is the transcript for a podcast episode. Generate a summary of the podcast following these guidelines:

- Organize the summary into distinct sections for each  question.
- Summarize the main points from the answers in bullet points under each section
- Be very detailed in your answers and do not skip any key points.

*Note: Some podcasts provide transcripts directly on their websites, which would allow you to skip steps 1 to 3.

AI Tools to check out

📊 Flowsage: Effortlessly design, collaborate, and optimize flowcharts with the power of AI.

🔎 Odaptos: Odaptos helps companies learn from their users' emotions in order to improve their digital products using AI.

🤖 Argil: Grow your social media brand without a camera. Create shorts of yourself in under 5 minutes with your AI clone.

📝 Letterfy: Generate high-quality cover letters in PDF format with AI.

📹 Wisecut: AI video editor that automatically transforms your long videos into viral clips.

The latest in AI and Tech

Google introduces ALOHA Unleashed

Google's Deepmind has introduced a new generation of AI robots called ALOHA Unleashed. The robots showcase impressive dexterity in the videos, adeptly handling tasks like hanging shirts, inserting gears, and tying shoelaces.

Amazon Music launches Maestro, a new AI playlist generator

Amazon Music has launched Maestro, a new AI-powered playlist generator currently in beta testing for select US users on iOS and Android. Maestro allows users to create personalized playlists by entering a simple prompt. Amazon plans to gradually expand access to this tool over time.

Snap is adding a watermark to AI-generated images

Snapchat has announced that it will soon add a small, sparkly ghost logo as a watermark on images created using the platform's generative AI tools. The watermark will appear on any such images exported, downloaded, or saved to the camera roll.

Baidu says Ernie bot users have doubled since December

Baidu's AI chatbot, Ernie Bot, has seen a significant surge in user growth, now attracting over 200 million users - double the number from December. The chatbot's application API is accessed 200 million times per day, with 85,000 enterprise customers. Ernie Bot was the first Chinese chatbot to go public last September.

Nvidia introduces new RTX A400 and A1000 desktop GPUs for AI design and productivity workflows

Nvidia has expanded its lineup of RTX professional graphics cards with the introduction of two new desktop GPUs - the RTX A400 and RTX A1000. While not as powerful as flagship models, these new GPUs offer a single-slot design and low 50-watt power consumption.

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