The World's First AI With Emotional Intelligence 🧠

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AI startup Hume AI has announced the launch of EVI, which they claim is the world's first emotionally intelligent AI. Join us to see what this new ‘empathetic’ AI is all about.

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

• A Chart to Kickstart Your Day 📈: The rise of the .ai domain

• Hume Introduces The First Conversational AI With Emotional Intelligence 🧠

• Amazon Makes Its Largest Venture Investment Yet for AI Start-Up Anthropic

• AI Tutorial: How to add and style a product into a background in Midjourney

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

A chart to kickstart your day

The rise of the .ai domain

• The AI fever has turned Anguilla's “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine for the tiny British island territory in the Caribbean.

• Google searches for “ai domain” overtook “.com domain” for the first time ever in June last year.

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AI News

HUME AI

Hume Introduces The First Conversational AI With Emotional Intelligence 🧠

AI startup Hume has unveiled the Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) - a conversational AI assistant that can understand and respond to the emotional tone and context of voice interactions in remarkably human-like ways.

Details:

• EVI was developed combining standard LLM capabilities with expression measuring techniques. This innovative architecture is termed an 'empathic large language model' or eLLM by the company.

• It was trained on millions of human interactions. It can understand when the user has finished speaking and generate an appropriate vocal response almost instantaneously.

• It can also detect the emotional tone of a user's voice to add depth to each interaction and tailor its responses accordingly.

• EVI includes fast, reliable transcription and text-to-speech and can hook into any LLM, which opens up a lot of possibilities.

Chatting with Hume AI's EVI feels remarkably close to talking with a real human being. Test it out yourself here: demo.hume.ai.

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AMAZON

Amazon Makes Its Largest Venture Investment Yet for AI Start-Up Anthropic

Amazon has announced an additional $2.75 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic - bringing its total planned stake in the company to $4 billion.

Details:

• This marks Amazon's largest venture investment in its three-decade history.

• Amazon will maintain a minority stake and no board seat in the company, which is now valued at $18.4 billion after the investment.

• As part of the deal, Anthropic will use AWS as its primary cloud provider going forward and will develop and deploy its future models on the AWS Trainium and Inferentia chipsets.

News of the Amazon investment comes weeks after Anthropic debuted Claude 3, its newest suite of AI models, which have impressed with their performance and firmly positioned the company as one of ChatGPT’s main rivals.

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AI Tutorial

How to add and style a product into a background in Midjourney

1. Go to Midjourney

2. Use the "/describe" feature, upload your product image, and then add your desired image, in this case, bubble background

3. Copy the image description prompt from your product, then repeat the process for your background image.

4. Copy the image url of your product then add the url for the background and add "--cref" at the end of your prompt

5. Use the following prompt formula: (image description prompt product) + (image description prompt background image) + (image link product) + (image link of background) (--cref)

6. Example:

“A closeup of delicate soap bubbles floating in the air, with a soft pastel background that adds to their ethereal beauty. The focus is on capturing the intricate details and reflections within each bubble, creating an enchanting atmosphere in the style of the artist. A red blank can of soft drink isolated on a white background, this rendered illustration with copy space for your design. A red mock up can of soda or energy drink. No text. A mockup template for product presentation. A vector stock photo in the style of no particular artist. --cref s.mj.run/oSPhuO8g0iQ s.mj.run/N4XwfMEdM0o”

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AI Tools to check out

✨ Arcads: Create winning ads with AI Actors.

🚀 Mentor: AI-powered goal management coach.

🤖 DryMerge: Automate your work with plain English.

✅ Hoory: Customer support automation platform driven by conversational AI that helps businesses streamline their support operations.

🎆 Creatie: Turn ideas into stunning designs in seconds.

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