Good Morning Pigeoneers! This is the Robot Pigeon. The daily AI newsletter that is simple, stylish, a bit funny and keeps AI black and white .... Like a zebra in a trilby

We found very cheap and very nice Dim Sums last night so obviously had to eat far too many ... pool day today then as I cant move very far!

Meanwhile in the ever expanding world of AI, we have the responses from OpenAI to the Italian ban. Also the latest from 2 big AO players ... Anthropics $5b requirement for their plan and Meta's latest product, which could be best in show at image editing. All that after the usual ... 🛠 5 Cool New AI Tools of the Future ...

Now lets get to it ...

🛠5 of the latest AI Tools from the Future ...

Collato.com is an OKR software that makes goal-setting collaborative and connects the what and why of your team's daily work. With Collato, you can create goals, track progress, get feedback, and celebrate wins all in one place. Collato makes it easy for users to find and access the information they need, just like a workplace search tool. It helps them understand how information, ideas, and expertise coincide, just like a knowledge management tool.

Collie.ai is a super cute app that scrapes your website contents and files, then provides an embeddable search bar that seamlessly integrates into your website's design. The Collie fetcher is an automated web scraping program. When given a URL, it visits and extracts content, media, and files. It visits URLs these pages link to, and the process repeats itself for all linked pages. It then adds each asset to a search index called Mixpeek where it is then searchable

Taplio, The AI-powered, all-in-one tool to build your personal brand on LinkedIn. Create posts with AI and schedule them Engage with all the right people Analyze your progress Turn likes and comments into sign ups and leads.

kiwi.video allows you to get the most out of any YouTube video. It's very simple: Upload a video, Get a summary, Ask any question, and get answers from the video and Generate quizzes to test your understanding.

Writeout.ai, Transcribe and translate your audio files - for free. You can upload any audio file, and the application will send it through the OpenAI Whisper API using Laravel's queued jobs. Translation makes use of the new OpenAI Chat API and chunks the generated VTT file into smaller parts to fit them into the prompt context limit.

📰 3 Of the latest AI news updates summarized ...

ChatGPT maker to propose remedies over Italian ban

• OpenAI is taking measures to address the Italian ban on their chatbot last week.

• The Italian data protection agency Garante temporarily restricted ChatGPT and began a probe into suspicions of privacy rule breaches.

• OpenAI pledged transparency in the handling of user data and verifying age during Wednesday's video conference.

• A document detailing the measures to respond to Garante's requests will be sent today.

• OpenAI also published a blog post confirming that they do not use data for selling services, advertising, or building profiles of people.

OpenAI's statement about their approach to safety

• OpenAI is committed to keeping powerful AI safe and broadly beneficial.

• AI systems are tested, evaluated by external experts and monitored for safety prior to release.

• Real-world use of the technology informs improvements in safeguarding and allows tailored policies against abuse.

• Signficant effort is made to protect children, including age restrictions and prohibiting certain content.

• Personal information is carefully managed, while accuracy of model outputs is improved with user feedback.

• Research in safety techniques and engagement with stakeholders is encouraged to create a safe AI ecosystem.

Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

• Anthropic, a research startup founded in 2020 by former OpenAI researchers, plans to raise $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries.

• The company seeks to build a "frontier model" - tentatively called "Claude-Next" - 10 times more capable than today's most powerful AI, requiring $1 billion in spending over 18 months.

• Anthropic has developed an AI training technique called “constitutional AI” that provides a way to align AI with human intentions.

• Through its “Claude” chatbot, Anthropic aims to build virtual assistants that can answer emails, perform research and generate art, books and more.

• Investors include Alameda Research Ventures, Google (10% stake), James McClave, Dustin Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt and Jaan Tallinn.

Meta has been working on image editing software they call 'Segment Anything'

• The Segment Anything (SA) project introduces a new task, model, and dataset for image segmentation.

• Utilizing an efficient model in a data collection loop, a dataset of 11M licensed and privacy respecting images with over 1 billion masks was created.

• The model is designed to be promptable, allowing it to transfer zero-shot to new image distributions and tasks.

• Evaluations of the model yielded impressive zero-shot performance that is often competitive or superior to prior results.

📷 1 Amazing AI Pic of the Day ...

"John wick dancing moonwalker at night"

That's all for today! Loads of features to add to the up and coming editions, please let me know what you like, don't like and features that you would love to see next!

Enjoy your Day! ... Phil