Samsung Expands Its Wearable Portfolio With AI
Plus: OpenAI and Los Alamos Lab team up, China leads gen AI adoption race
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In today’s edition:
🧬 OpenAI teams up with Los Alamos Lab to advance bioscience research
🤖 China dominates global gen AI adoption
⌚ Samsung reveals new AI wearables at ‘Unpacked 2024’
📚 Knowledge Nugget: The Price of Automating Ethics by
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OpenAI teams up with Los Alamos Lab to advance bioscience research
This first-of-its-kind partnership will assess how powerful models like GPT-4o can perform tasks in a physical lab setting using vision and voice by conducting biological safety evaluations. The evaluations will be conducted on standard laboratory experimental tasks, such as cell transformation, cell culture, and cell separation.
According to OpenAI, the upcoming partnership will extend its previous bioscience work into new dimensions, including the incorporation of ‘wet lab techniques’ and ‘multiple modalities”.
The partnership will quantify and assess how these models can upskill professionals in performing real-world biological tasks.
Why does it matter?
It could demonstrate the real-world effectiveness of advanced multimodal AI models, particularly in sensitive areas like bioscience. It will also advance safe AI practices by assessing AI risks and setting new standards for safe AI-led innovations.
China dominates global gen AI adoption
According to a new survey of industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, and energy, China has emerged as a global leader in gen AI adoption.
Here are some noteworthy findings:
Among the 1,600 decision-makers, 83% of Chinese respondents stated that they use gen AI, higher than 16 other countries and regions participating in the survey.
A report by the United Nations WIPO highlighted that China had filed more than 38,000 patents between 2014 and 2023.
China has also established a domestic gen AI industry with the help of tech giants like ByteDance and startups like Zhipu.
Why does it matter?
The USA is still the leader in successfully implementing gen AI. As China continues making developments in the field, it will be interesting to watch whether it will display enough potential to leave its rivals in the USA behind.
Samsung reveals new AI wearables at ‘Unpacked 2024’
Samsung unveiled advanced AI wearables at the Unpacked 2024 event, including the Samsung Galaxy Ring, AI-infused foldable smartphones, Galaxy Watch 7, and Galaxy Watch Ultra.
Take a look at all of Samsung’s Unpacked 2024 in 12 minutes!
New Samsung Galaxy Ring features include:
A seven-day battery life, along with 24/7 health monitoring.
It also offers users a sleep score based on tracking metrics like movement, heart rate, and respiration.
It also tracks the sleep cycles of users based on their skin temperature.
New features of foldable AI smartphones include:
Sketch-to-image
Note Assist
Interpreter and Live Translate
Built-in integration for the Google Gemini app
AI-powered ProVisual Engine
The Galaxy Watch 7 and Galaxy Watch Ultra also boast features like AI-health monitoring, FDA-approved sleep apnea detection, diabetes tracking, and more, ushering Samsung into a new age of wearable revolution.
Why does it matter?
Samsung’s AI-infused gadgets are potential game-changers for personal health management. With features like FDA-approved sleep apnea detection, Samsung is blurring the line between consumer electronics and medical devices, causing speculations on whether it will leave established players like Oura, Apple, and Fitbit.
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Knowledge Nugget: The Price of Automating Ethics
In the latest installment of his "Beyond ChatGPT" series,
highlights how AI detection tools are causing academic chaos. Students are being falsely accused of using AI for assignments they wrote themselves, leading some to extreme measures like logging their entire writing process. Meanwhile, companies like GPTZero are pushing "human verification" services that raise significant red flags regarding privacy.He believes that generative AI affects critical learning skills beyond just writing. He further argues that there is a lack of consistency across institutions when it comes to academic misconduct policies.
Why does it matter?
As AI becomes more integrated into education, we need better policies and more nuanced approaches for its use. It's time for educators to move beyond policing AI use and focus on how to incorporate these tools ethically into learning.
What Else Is Happening❗
💸 AMD to buy SiloAI to bridge the gap with NVIDIA
AMD has agreed to pay $665 million in cash to buy Silo in an attempt to accelerate its AI strategy and close the gap with its closest potential competition, NVIDIA Corp. (Link)
💬 New AWS tool generates enterprise apps via prompts
The tool, named App Studio, lets you use a natural language prompt to build enterprise apps like inventory tracking systems or claims approval processes, eliminating the need for professional developers. It is currently available for a preview. (Link)
📱 Samsung Galaxy gets smarter with Google
Google has introduced new Gemini features and Wear OS 5 to Samsung devices. It has also extended its ‘Circle to Search’ feature’s functionality, offering support for solutions to symbolic math equations, barcode scanning, and QR scanning. (Link)
✍️ Writer drops enhancements to AI chat applications
Improvements include advanced graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI transparency tools, available for users of ‘Ask Writer’ and AI Studio. (Link)
🚀 Vimeo launches AI content labels
Following the footsteps of TikTok, YouTube, and Meta, the AI video platform now urges creators to disclose when realistic content is created by AI. It is also working on developing automated AI labeling systems. (Link)
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