💹 Meta and Musk at the Senate

Good Morning Pigeoneers!

Its been a while since our last AI gossip as I took the summer off and turned off all devices to focus on spending time with my wife and 3 children having conversations and experiences in the real world!

It was great to switch off and reflect on the past 6 months, and now I’m back and fully recharged. To try and be as much of a service to you as possible and to play to my strengths and experience in marketing and growth for small/medium size businesses I’m going to be trying to focus slightly more in this direction.

I also want to be able to go deeper into some of the tools and articles each week and to do this I’m going to send these updates out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday now, then coming soon a deeper dive at the weekend on topics and tools chosen by you guys.

Hope that sounds good for you? …. Now on with Season 2 … Its Monday and so we are focusing on new Social Media growth tools …

📣 Featured Tool

Fliki.AI

We are currently experimenting using Fliki.ai to grow multiple social media accounts for some small businesses and my early thoughts are that this tool is a one stop shop for anything ‘Text-to’ for video and speech audio creation. Definitely worth trying out and they have a free trial product too ..

🛠The Latest AI Tools from the Future ...

Smartly.io Use AI to spread your marketing and content automatically and effectively across 8 major social platforms, including Facebook and Instagram

Framer.com An advanced tool for making website creation very simple using text prompts

Melon.io This is currently a waiting list for a very interesting project, community led AI curation of content all kept and accessed in one place

📰 The latest AI News stories (as a 2 min read) 

Inside the Senate’s Private AI Meeting With Tech’s Billionaire Elites

• US Senators are receiving private tutoring from a variety of Silicon Valley CEOs, consumer advocates, ethicists, and academics on the potential for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to upend life as we know it.

• The briefing was organized by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and attended by 60 senators who were not allowed to speak or raise their hands.

• There was consensus among the speakers that the federal government’s regulatory might is needed in order to regulate AI.

• Attendees provided differing views, from the need for more highly skilled workers to addressing existing infrastructure gaps to protecting privacy and civil rights.

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella suggested that "copilots" be used to both monitor activity and ensure AI is developed correctly.

• Debate continues around open or closed source AI and addressing current harms caused by AI models instead of only looking at future risks.

• Senators left with a renewed sense of urgency for creating regulation but no definite timeline exists.

Researchers Hack ChatGPT to Study How It Makes Decisions

• Carnegie Mellon University researchers discovered a technique which unlocks the safety mechanisms of chatbots, such as ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude from Anthropic.

• The team is now developing a "mind-reader" tool to study how chatbots make decisions.

• They will share their findings through an open-source archive called arxiv.org in order to inform the public about the risks of generative AI technology.

• Companies such as OpenAI and Google also hire experts to audit their own products for vulnerabilities.

AI music sending traditional industry into ‘panic,’ says new AI music platform CEO

• Can Ansay, founder of AI streaming and marketplace platform Musixy, believes that incorporating AI into the music industry has many benefits, including increased efficiency and lowered costs.

• Musixy was launched to create a safe space for AI-generated music after major streaming platforms began to crack down on copyright infringement.

• Ansay argued that from a legal perspective, vocal likeness is not “protectable” due to ethical implications.

• Google and Universal Music Group are reportedly in negotiations over a tool to legally use artists' likenesses in AI tracks.

• Ansay suggested either competing with non-AI-generated music with clear distinction or creating a new category, such as “AI Song of the Year” for awards and recognition.

📷 Amazing AI Pic of the Day ...

One of the faces of AI at the Senate sharing the love ….

If AI designed a Water Park ..

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That's all for today!

Enjoy your Day! ... Phil