Good Morning Pigeoneers!  This is the Robot Pigeon. The daily AI newsletter that digests and summaries all the best bits of the days AI tools and news in a read of always less than 5 minutes ... bit like one of your old comics but with less superheroes

On top of being another busy week day hour in the world of AI (deceided to give you 4 news articles today), I had a burst pipe yesterday and now no ceiling or functioning kitchen. I took control of the situation and have left the house and come to the office to bury myself in AI research and hope its all sorted by the time I get home!

While my kitchen pipes have been performing badly, so has the new AI feature in Snap apparently. Grimes has decided if you cant beat them join them and taken a very different creator stance than that of Drake

I'm off to use SuperChat to have a conversation with Moses ... apparently he was good with water? Enjoy ...

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

TypeAI Powerful AI document editor, helps you write better, fast

PaceAI Generate better ideas, faster with the help of AI

Looka Logo design and brand building using AI

FlashInsights Use AI to get insights and summaries from any web page or video and then integrate them into your chatbot

SuperChat A virtual chat app, enabling you to have a chat with various historical characters such as Cleopatra or Thor (maybe not so historical that one)

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

Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature, calling for its removal

• Snapchat’s new “My AI” feature, powered by OpenAI, has received an influx of negative reviews in the past week.

• U.S. App Store reviews have dropped to 1.67 from 3.05 and a fivefold increase in daily reviews has been observed.

• Apptopia reports “AI” was mentioned 2,973 times in Snapchat's App Store reviews, with a sentiment Impact Score of -9.2%.

• On April 20th, three times more one-star ratings were given compared to usual levels.

• Complaints on social media are focused around the feature being pinned to the top of users' Chat tab and not giving users the option to opt-in or remove it without paying for a subscription package.

• Some find it intrusive and creepy, as it knows user location even when they don't share it on Snap Maps; this points to a larger debate around AI and personal data collection.

Negative reviews by day in pink below .... 

Grimes says anyone can use her voice for AI-generated songs

• Grimes announced Sunday night via Twitter that she would be willing to split any royalties from successful AI-generated songs featuring her voice.

• This is a departure from the major record labels' opposition to AI-generated music with vocal tracks of popular artists.

• Grimes allowed the use of her vocals without restriction and gave no detail on how the profit sharing arrangements will work.

• Other artists like Holly Herndon have embraced AI tools and allow users to upload audio files and receive a new version sung in her voice; however, only members of Herndon's DAO can benefit financially from the model.

• Last week, Universal Music Group issued a statement claiming training AI models on their artist's work was a copyright violation due to the viral success of "Heart on My Sleeve", an AI song comprised of vocal models for Drake and The Weeknd.

Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now help you code and create functions for Google Sheets

• Google's AI chatbot Bard can now generate, debug and explain code in over 20 programming languages.

• You can ask Bard to explain code snippets or lines from GitHub repositories.

• Bard will also debug code and even write functions for Google Sheets.

Bill Gates says A.I. chatbots will teach kids to read within 18 months: You’ll be ‘stunned by how it helps’

• Bill Gates predicts that AI chatbots will be used to teach reading and writing skills in 18 months.

• OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and other programs are already giving feedback on writing and have human-level intelligence on some tests.

• Kevin Roose has already used ChatGPT to improve his writing.

• AI chatbots may struggle with math calculations due to lack of reasoning abilities.

• AI chatbot tutoring may offer an affordable alternative to traditional one-on-one tutoring.

📷 1 Amazing AI Pic of the Day ...

"spiderman as a stained glass window, 24mm lens, photorealistic, ultra details professional colour quality, 8k HDR high quality--ar 16:9--q 2 --v 5 --s 750"

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