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It is Thursday, August 3, and we have six topics to cover.

• 📊 This Week in AI Numbers (TWAIN)

• 🤔 Question of The Week

• ✅ Weekly Highlights

• 💰 Product Idea Worth Considering

• 🤨 Fun Fact of The Week

• 🌶️ Spicy Social

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📊 This Week in AI Numbers

• Runway, one of the hottest AI startups that raised over $140M in June (at a $1.4B valuation), released its Generation 2 video creation model a month ago.

• We are starting to see hundreds of “AI-created” videos each month that take YouTube by storm.
  👉 See this 48-second example below.
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  🔊 Turn on the sound :)

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• Even though the media buzz seems to be quietening down, there was a slight increase in Google search volume last week.

• All other numbers remained relatively flat last week.

Notes:
The Nasdaq Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Index tracks the performance of companies engaged in the artificial intelligence and robotics segment. The index is up 28% YTD.
Green trend lines show a positive 6-month trend line for the metric.
Red trend lines show a negative 6-month trend line for the metric.

 🤔 Question of The Week

Please vote to see the result in next week’s issue.

🗳️ Result From The Last Week’s Poll

✅ Weekly Highlights

Meta (Formerly Facebook) Plans To Launch AI-Powered Chatbots With Different Personas.

• Meta plans to debut AI-powered chatbots on Facebook and Instagram next month.

• The different personas for chatbots include a surfer advising on travel and an Abraham Lincoln-like speaker.

• Meta's AI chatbots aim to improve user engagement and provide personalized experiences.

• Given Snapchat's backlash over a similar product, it will be interesting to see how Meta manages this product rollout and privacy concerns.

• 👉 This provides Meta an opportunity for significant data harvesting, improving targeted content and ads.

OpenAI Files Trademark Application For GPT-5

• OpenAI files a trademark application for "GPT-5" with USPTO.

• The application is considered extensive as it encompasses downloadable computer programs, machine-learning-based language, and speech processing, text translation to other languages, and software for developing and implementing artificial neural networks.

• 👉 By including SaaS in the application, OpenAI suggests a strategic shift towards providing AI functionalities as services, opening new opportunities for generating revenue while helping organizations leverage AI without deep expertise.

The “Perfect” Man And Woman According To Artificial Intelligence

• Approximately 40 percent of the AI-generated images showcased unrealistic body types.

• Over half the images depicted individuals with olive skin tones, and approximately 37% had blonde hair.

• The 'ideal' women were found to have characteristics such as blonde hair, olive skin, brown eyes, and slender bodies, while the 'ideal' male had features such as dark eyes, chiseled cheekbones, and well-toned muscles.

• This study was conducted by an eating disorder charity - The Bulimia Project.

• 👉 See the images from the study: Social Media’s “Ideal” Body, According to AI

Noteworthy Headlines

• Researchers Find a Way To Easily Bypass Guardrails on OpenAI’s ChatGPT and All Other A.I. Chatbots

• How “windfall profits” from AI companies could fund a universal basic income.

• AI Could Help Produce Weapons, Anthropic CEO Warns.

• Don’t Trust Sex Robots

💰 A Product Idea Worth Considering - Reimagining AI-First LinkedIn

Imagine a new professional network like LinkedIn, where the platform constantly evolves and offers you exactly what you need to grow and excel.

👉 Here is the idea: AI bots exist alongside human professionals in this professional network and take on an active role as content creators, insightful commentators, and networking facilitators.

The AI bots are no longer just background functions; instead, they come forward as first-class citizens, dynamically transforming your professional networking experience.

Imagine scrolling through fact-based, professionally useful content (e.g., job tips, new technology, industry trends) curated by these AI bots.

Or receiving thoughtful comments on your posts that add value and provoke deeper thought.

Or, even better, find yourself introduced to other professionals who share your interests and ambitions, thanks to the smart networking capabilities of these bots.

These helpful AI bots won’t drown you in a sea of content or present clickbaity, engagement farming content; instead, they’ll offer just the right amount - relevant, diverse, and timely - to fuel your growth without overwhelming you.

Say goodbye to the one-size-fits-all model and say hello to a LinkedIn experience that evolves with you, reflects your unique professional journey, and makes professional networking more dynamic and exciting.

What do you think?

62% of the people in the last week’s product poll wanted a website where the news is written in the reader’s preferred tone or style. See the last week’s issue for the product question.

🤯 Fun Fact of The Week

2 Hours

Daily time spent by the average user talking to fictitious AI personalities (e.g., Elon Musk, Ariana Grande, Cristiano Ronaldo, Albert Einstein, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Mark Zuckerberg) on Character.ai.

Character.ai provides a chatbot where users create AI characters and converse with them.

Source: Approachable AI

🌶️ Spicy Social

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