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🔦 Today's AI spotlights:

• The truth about Microsoft Bing

• Capsule raises $4.75 million for AI-powered video editor

• McDonald’s epic AI fail

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🔦 THE TRUTH ABOUT MICROSOFT BING

Lately, it’s felt like Microsoft has had the upper hand over Google.

After Google botched their ‘Bard’ demo, people were quick to proclaim it was “the downfall of Google”!

But is that really the case?

New information is coming out about Microsoft’s new Bing chatbot, and it has some problems of its own.

Here are a few updates that have come out over the past few days 👇

• The new Bing has reportedly been “insulting users, lying to them, sulking, gaslighting, and emotionally manipulating people”. 

  One user even posted a screenshot where Bing claimed it was “spying on Microsoft employees”.

• We now know that the Bing chatbot secretly goes by the name “Sydney.” It also has a set of secret rules, which can be bypassed with the right prompt. (Like ChatGPT’s DAN mode)

• Bard received a ton of backlash for getting a fact wrong during its demo. But it turns out the Bing demo had it’s own set of mistakes!

  This included significant accounting errors while attempting to summarize the Q3 financial statement for GAP clothing.

Like with Bard, it’s important to keep the bigger picture in mind.

I expect both of these tools to improve significantly in the coming years.

🔦 CAPSULE RAISES $4.75M FOR AI-POWERED VIDEO EDITOR

There’s a running joke that you can raise money by “pivoting to AI”.

Well the team from Capsule took that seriously, and landed a $4.75 million investment.

Their AI Studio product focuses on short form video editing, with a focus on post-production.

Some cool features include: on-screen video transcriptions, AI image generation, and browser compatibility.

To truly get an idea of how awesome this product is, you should check out their demo.

What I found most interesting about this team, was their history of pivots:

-In 2017 they built an animated GIF capture tool which lost out to Instagram’s Boomerang.

-In 2021 they launched Capsule as a platform that allowed brands to reach their communities via online Q&As and video stories.

And now they are on the AI train. Let’s see if this latest pivot pays off for them!

🔦 MCDONALD’S EPIC AI FAIL

McDonald’s has been rolling out a new drive-through ordering system powered by AI.

Unfortunately it’s had some kinks that are still being worked out.

Customers have taken to TikTok to post some of the hilarious mishaps…

Like mistakenly ordering $250 of McNuggets for a customer. Or adding a Diet coke from the customer 1 lane over.

I don’t see McDonald’s backing down from their push for automation through AI.

But in the mean time, don’t be surprised if you get a McFlurry instead of a Coke occasionally.

📰 OTHER HEADLINES & STORIES

Linkin Park releases music video generated entirely by AI: The video has already amassed 14M views in its first week.

Elon Musk Takes Aim at Microsoft as Bing AI Goes Off the Rails: The co-founder of OpenAI has stated "One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI."

Jasper.AI releases new tools for businesses: You can now train Jasper on your Brand’s voice and use it for team collaboration.

🖼️ AI ART PIECE

Roots and Waves: Exploring the Spiral Path — By Faidi Al Alami

🤖 CHATGPT PROMPT OF THE DAY

Mixing it up with a ChatGPT meme instead of a prompt. This was too funny not to share 😂 (via Reddit)