🧠 Google Strikes Back

Hello friends,

Happy Friday!

Before we start the weekend, we wanted to send you off with the latest and greatest in AI. From tech company battles to terminator robots, we've got it all...

🔦 Today's AI spotlights:

• Google strikes back

• Is an AI rabbi possible?

• Boston Dynamics brings us one step closer to terminator

🔦 GOOGLE STRIKES BACK

It appears that Google has grown tired of Microsoft getting all the attention with AI.

Now Google is striking back in a BIG way. Here's how 👇

• On Wednesday, Google released a massive 7,000 word blog post on their AI research updates.

• The NY Times also reports that Google will show its own search engine with AI chatbot features this year. (Likely at their I/O event in May)

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin are leaning in to offer advice again. For years the founders have been hands off, but Sundar Pichai invited them to help.

• Google plans to release 20 new projects powered by AI this year. These include a code generation tool called PaLM-Coder 2 and an AI prototyping tool called MakerSuite.

• This morning Google laid off 12,000 employees from non-AI divisions.

This all comes after reports that Microsoft's recent announcements have Google execs freaking out.

The irony here is that for years Google has trodded carefully with its AI updates, to avoid bad press.

Now the situation has done a complete 180, and Google doesn't feel like they are acting aggressively enough.

Did Microsoft just awaken a sleeping giant?

🔦 IS AN AI RABBI POSSIBLE?

A local rabbi is making headlines after using ChatGPT to write his sermon this week.

New York Senior Rabbi Josh Franklin, delivered the sermon that ChatGPT had prepared. After he finished, he asked the congregation to guess who had written the sermon.

To the shock of everyone in attendance, Rabbi Franklin admitted that he had used ChatGPT to create the sermon.

Rabbi Franklin claims that he completed this exercise to help express his fear over the advancement of AI.

However, it appears that the stunt did not end there. Instead, it has kicked off a deeper debate.

Rabbi Gershon Winkler, argues that golems, which are "clay humanoid creatures created to project Jews", can be considered Jewish.

So why can't AI one day be Jewish as well?

The deeper discussion at play here seems to be around the limitations of AI. It's clear that AI can handle data well, but how about areas such as emotion or spirituality?

Will AI ever be able to achieve this? Or is it something unique to humans?

🔦 BOSTON DYNAMICS BRINGS US ONE STEP CLOSER TO TERMINATOR

Welp, Boston Dynamics is at it again.

The company, which is famous for robot demos, released a video of their new Atlas technology.

And let's just say you need to see it for yourself...

Let's hope they're working on a Schwarzenegger robot to protect us from the bad robots!

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Amazon Wants To Help Teach AI: Amazon has launched an “educator enablement” program to help instructors at community colleges, HBCUs, and other minority-serving institutions learn and teach AI.

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