42% Apple Mac Users Use AI Apps Daily
Plus: ElevenLabs partners with Pictory AI, Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 to rival GPT-4.
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In today’s edition:
🧠 42% of Mac users use AI-based apps daily, finds new report
🔥ElevenLabs partners with Pictory AI for realistic AI video voices
🚀 China's Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 to rival GPT-4
📚 Knowledge Nugget: Pentesting LLM apps 101 by
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42% of Mac users use AI-based apps daily, finds new report
Setapp, the curated app subscription service for macOS and iOS by MacPaw, has released its 3rd annual Mac Apps Report. The report collected responses from Mac users, mostly in the US. Its findings highlight that 42% of respondents use AI-based apps daily. And 63% of AI-based app users believe AI tools are more beneficial.
Its latest Mac Developer Survey also showed that 44% of Mac developers have already implemented AI/ML models in their apps, while 28% are working on it.
Why does this matter?
These statistics reflect how users are increasingly embracing AI in daily life as well as how AI is becoming an integral part of app development. This makes us question: Will AI be no longer a niche but a fundamental technology? Should we be integrating AI into our software products to maintain a leading edge in today's digital landscape?
ElevenLabs partners with Pictory AI for realistic AI video voices
ElevenLabs has been focused on pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI voice technology. And Pictory AI is renowned for its proprietary algorithms that transform text into video.
With the integration of ElevenLabs' advanced AI voice technology, Pictory users will now be able to add 51 new hyper-realistic AI voices to their videos, enhancing engagement and personalizing the viewer's experience.
Why does this matter?
This could be a game-changer for creators, marketers, bloggers, and social media managers, allowing them to make videos with truly human-sounding voices for many use cases. It also highlights the ongoing collaborations in the AI landscape to deliver better tech to users, showing mutual dedication for continuous innovation in AI.
China's Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 to rival GPT-4
Baidu, China’s Google equivalent, unveiled the newest version of its generative AI model today, Ernie 4.0, saying its capabilities were on par with those of OpenAI’s pioneering GPT-4 model. The reveal focused on the model’s memory capabilities and showed it writing a martial arts novel in real-time, but no concrete benchmark performance figures were disclosed.
Why does this matter?
The announcement left analysts unimpressed, and so did us. In June, Baidu revealed Ernie 3.5, which beat ChatGPT on multiple metrics. But it will have to try a lot harder to dethrone GPT-4 as the top AI model.
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Knowledge Nugget: Pentesting LLM apps 101
No matter how amazing ChatGPT is, it has security implications too. So, as an AppSec professional and a bug bounty hunter, @ved prabhu started a small research project to understand the security landscape of LLM usage by answering questions such as: What are the common threats? How do we identify them? What tools can we use to test applications? How do we reliably fix it?
He penned this interesting article specifically focusing on the Pentester (penetration tester) perspective. It discusses why Pentesters should care about testing LLMs and describes a framework in detail on how to go about it.
Why does this matter?
As AI adoption grows, many companies have applications integrated with LLMs and the number will increase in the next few quarters. But just like every new technology, AI is not without security risks and threats. The article provides a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in AI systems and, thus, building secure ecosystems.
Plus, this framework works for most new technologies!
What Else Is Happening❗
🌎Anthropic expands access to Claude.ai to 95 more countries and regions
Starting today, users in 95 countries can talk to Claude and get help with their professional or day-to-day tasks. Check out this link to find the list of supported countries and regions. (Link)
🚀Inflection AI’s Pi now has real-time access to fresh information from across the Web
You can now ask Pi (“personal intelligence”), your personal AI, about the latest news, events, and more because it's fully up-to-date with internet access. (Link)
🎯YouTube gets new AI-powered ads that let brands target special cultural moments
Powered by Google AI, the company announced a new advertising package called “Spotlight Moments.” It will leverage AI to automatically identify the most popular YouTube videos related to a specific cultural moment– like Halloween, a sporting event, etc. (Link)
🤖Research reveals AI pain detection system for patients before, during, and after surgery
An automated system for pain recognition using AI is appearing effective as an impartial method for detecting pain in patients. Two AI techniques, computer vision and deep learning, allow it to interpret visual cues to assess patients’ pain. (Link)
🗽New York City unveiled a new plan to use AI to make its government work better
The plan outlines a framework for how to responsibly adopt and regulate AI to "improve services and processes across our government." It is the first of its kind from a major US city. (Link)
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