Top AI News of the Day (January 12, 2023)

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January 12, 2023

1. CNET is Publishing Articles Written by AI

As per online marketer Gael Breton, the world-famous tech journalism platform CNET has been quietly publishing articles generated by AI. He noticed that many of the website’s articles bear the byline “CNET Money Staff,” which, as per CNET, is identified as “AI Content published under this author byline is generated using automation technology.”

Looks like @CNET (DR 92 tech site) just did their coming out about using AI content for SEO articles. pic.twitter.com/CR0IkgUUnq
— Gael Breton (@GaelBreton) January 11, 2023

2. Codeword’s New AI Interns

In a first-of-its-kind internship program, two artificial intelligence (AI) interns will join Codeword, a top tech marketing agency. The interns will join its team of 106 employees and will closely work with the creative team. The AI interns, Aiden and Aiko, will work directly under Terrence Doyle, Senior Editor at Codeword, and will create blog posts for the company’s blog and social media profiles.

3. Hockeyverse, Hockey India’s Metaverse Project to Welcome FIH Odisha Men’s Hockey World Cup

Hockey India is the first National Sports Federation to enter the metaverse. Hockey India debuted the “Hockeyverse” on their social media platforms on Monday, just days before the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar, Rourkela. With Hockeyverse, hockey enthusiasts can enjoy the sport at Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium while sitting at home. They can also use features like the Photo Booth (to take pictures), Team Room (to meet Indian hockey players), and Trophy Room.

4. Free 6-Months AI Certification Program by BHU

The Department of Computer Science at Banaras Hindu University has launched a free, six-month AI certification program with specialized training. 100 seats will be available through this program, and applicants will be admitted based on their performance on an entrance exam. Interested candidates can register for the program at the official website.

5. DeepL Raises US$100m at a Valuation of US$1b+ for Translation-as-a-Service

DeepL, an AI startup providing instant translation services, has announced that it raised more than US$100m at a valuation of US$1b+. It is a German company founded by Jaroslaw Kutylowski as a B2B (business-to-business) service rather than a B2C (business-to-consumer). DeepL supports translation on Mastodon, a decentralized social network. With the recent funds, DeepL plans to expand its services to cover more enterprises and switch to Grammarly-style writing assistance.

6. AI Detects Rare Forms of Dementia

Researchers at the University of Leipzig Medical Center and Max Planck Institute have utilized AI and machine learning to detect rare forms of dementia using patient MRIs. Researchers demonstrated in their study that AI can automatically identify patterns in patient imaging data that are exclusive to rare forms of dementia, facilitating early diagnosis.

Hockey India enters the metaverse through Hockeyverse

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Sahil Pawar

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January 12, 2023

Hockey India enters metaverse Hockeyverse

Hockey India has become the first National Sports Federation to enter the world of metaverse by announcing the launch of ‘Hockeyverse.’ The announcement came on Monday, only days before the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela.

Hockeyverse will provide a novel virtual experience where global hockey fans can experience their favorite sport from the comfort of their home through their personal computer.

Upon accessing the ‘Hockeyverse’ URL in a browser, users are welcomed to the hockeyverse virtual world page. Users are asked to enter their name and email address. After selecting their virtual Avatar’s gender, users can click on the ‘Enter Hockeyverse’ button to enter.

The Hockeyverse features attractions such as a replica of the newly built Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium. The building just outside the stadium’s main entrance has two rooms, consisting of a brief history of Indian Hockey and their current achievements.

Fans can also use the Photo Booth, where they can take selfies with players virtually. There is also The Team Room and The Trophy Room, where fans are welcomed by Hockey India’s famous players. Fans will also have access to the site where they can buy desired hockey merchandise.

Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum will be available on BharatVerse metaverse

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Sahil Pawar

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January 12, 2023

Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum available BharatVerse

The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Pune, is now available to visitors in the metaverse. The virtual replica of the museum will be present on BharatVerse, which is a metaverse platform that works to create digital twin places of particular interest.

Museum Director Sudhanva Ranade said, “We will facilitate an immersive experience of the metaverse for virtual visitors to get a feeling of being present in real-time inside the Museum.”

The visitors will be able to access the museum through head-mounted devices, web browsers, or mobile phones. They will be able to take a 3-D tour of the museum, created under the guidance of renowned ophthalmologist Dr. Shreekant Kelkar.

Founder-Director of BharatVerse, Rohit Srivastava, said, “We envision BharatVerse as a collaboratively-built virtual India where every square meter of the real India can be showcased as it is. We are building the metaverse platform on the three-pronged principles of collaboration, contribution, and creativity.”

The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum exhibits items from the collection of Dinkar G. Kelkar, a noted Indian art collector and historian. The museum’s collection includes palanquins, carved woodwork, traditional lamps, and much more.

Meta partners with FADA to upskill over 3000 auto dealers across India

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Sahil Pawar

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January 12, 2023

Meta FADA upskill 3000 auto dealers India

Meta has partnered with the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) to digitally upskill thousands of auto dealers across India to reach consumers digitally.

At the Auto Expo 2023, Meta launched ‘Move with Meta,’ which is an upskilling and enablement program in partnership with FADA to train over 3000 auto dealers across India to build a social presence and digitize with the help of Meta Platforms.

While explaining the reason Meta is training auto dealers, Meta said that with people increasingly depending on digital touchpoints to decide on their automobile purchases, auto dealers are feeling an urgent need to become discoverable to customers online.

While commenting on the partnership, the president of FADA, Manish Raj Singhania, said, “Meta has done ground-breaking work by helping dealers to create a social presence and generate online leads, that too with minimal investment.

The program will include knowledge from global teams and provide dealers with low-cost and easy access to best-in-class global digital expertise.

Meta will also leverage FADA’s scaled forums, such as state-level dealership workshops known as Vyapaar, and its initiatives for under-35 dealers to enhance the program’s reach.

Seek AI Raises US$7.5M in Pre-Seed and Seed Funding for Its Generative AI Platform

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Disha Chopra

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January 12, 2023

Seek AI, a software development and IT services company, disclosed its pre-seed and seed funding amounting to US$7.5m for its generative AI platform. Guo’s Conviction Partners led the investment rounds that saw participation from many notable industry leaders like Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia, DeepMind Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, NJP Ventures, and dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy.

Seek AI leverages itself as an intelligent data layer that uses generative AI like OpenAI’s DALL-E and GPT-3. Based on these models, Seek AI enables code generation for database querying.

Users can access and query data using the company’s natural language interface in a question-and-answer format, which helps free up data teams from tedious coding work and speed up business operations. The interface is accessible via email, Slack, text, and several CRM programs.

Seek AI was founded in September 2021 by Sarah Nagy. She says, “Our vision has been to automate mundane but critical processes and workflows so that data stakeholders can get the data they need fast, and data teams can focus more on strategic efforts.”

With the recent Seek AI pre-seed and seed funding, the company will also tie up with more partners to reduce the complexities of automation and find more efficient use cases of applied AI. The company also plans to utilize the extra funding to make data generally accessible to everyone with its products and NLP services.

Codeword has hired two AI interns for first-of-its-kind internship program

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Sahil Pawar

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January 12, 2023

A leading tech-marketing agency, Codeword, has announced a first-of-its-kind internship program, where the agency is adding two AI interns to its team of 106 people. The AI interns will be fully embedded into Codeword’s creative team.

The two interns named, Aiden and Aiko, created their own visual presentation. Aiko will work on Codeword’s design team and report to Senior Art Director Emilio Ramos.

Aiden will work with the agency’s editorial team and report to Senior Editor Terrence Doyle. Both interns will receive internal creative assignments, will share their experiences on the company’s blog and social media, and will receive regular performance evaluations over the course of a three-month internship.

The interns are not expected to work on client-facing work. However, they may be asked to perform the kind of creative work that AI is particularly good at handling.

For example, generating large volumes of rough concept thumbnails for news, trend research, and mood boards or voice and tone analysis for the editorial team. Considering the typical hourly intern salary, Codeword will donate the equivalent to the Grace Hopper Celebration.

Free 6-Months AI Certification Program by BHU

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Disha Chopra

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January 12, 2023

Banaras Hindu University’s Department of Computer Science has introduced a six-month BHU free AI certification program with specialized training. Under this program, BHU will allocate 100 seats, and admissions will be based on performance on an entrance exam.

The program’s registration period will start on January 12 and ends on January 25, while the academic session begins on February 1 and ends in July. Interested candidates can register for the program at the official website.

Candidates can take the entrance exam if they have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field. The program has no course fees, and everyone who completes the course will receive a certificate and be eligible to work as data scientists and applied scientists in the field.

The BHU free AI certification program will cover many topics like big data, statistical applications, data processing, data structures and algorithms, artificial neural networks, and other related concepts.

The Department of Computer Science at BHU is backed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, to facilitate the BHU AI certification program.

Beautiful.ai launches DesignerBot, a generative AI for stunning presentation creation

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Sahil Pawar

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January 12, 2023

Beautiful.ai, a presentation platform that allows anyone to build beautiful presentations, has announced the launch of DesignerBot, which is a generative AI designed for custom image generation and automatic presentation creation.

Using the cutting-edge AI technology from OpenAI, Beautiful.ai’s DesignerBot creates fully realized presentations based on a single text prompt, including appropriate layouts, photos, icons, text, and design.

The AI automatically creates a huge variety of content and slides for school, business, and personal use, including text, charts, lists, and icons that can be used for marketing presentations, pitch decks, sales proposals, and even abstract concepts.

Once DesignerBot has created a custom presentation, users can use Beautiful.ai’s powerful SmartSlides technology to quickly edit slides by removing or adding content and automatically adapting, resizing, and laying out the slides, all while preserving and maintaining corporate brand guidelines.

The addition of DesignerBot provides a truly automated zero-to-finish experience to Beautiful.ai’s presentation ecosystem – eliminating hours of frustrating effort to design and craft a beautiful presentation narrative

Meta hires Vikas Purohit as Director of Global Business in India

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Sahil Pawar

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January 11, 2023

Meta hires Vikas Purohit Director of Global Business in India

The social media giant Meta has appointed ex-Tata CLiQ CEO Vikas Purohit as India’s Director of Global Business Group. He will help the company in guiding its strategic relationships with brands and ad agencies.

Before Meta, Purohit was associated with Tata Cliq. Purohit had quit Tata CLiQ as CEO last month after spending over six years there. Purohit will report to the director and head of Ads Business for Meta in India, Arun Srinivas.

The key business teams of Meta in India, including agency teams and business solutions teams, will report to Purohit.

Besides Tata Cliq, Purohit has worked at Amazon, Reliance Brands, Aditya Birla Group, and Tommy Hilfiger. He has over 20 years of experience in senior business, sales, and marketing roles and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.

“India’s largest agencies and businesses are playing a crucial role in the country’s expansion of the digital economy and are building inspiring business models that are surprising marketers globally,” said Srinivas.

Top AI News of the Day (11 January 2023)

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Disha Chopra

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January 11, 2023

1. Writesonic AI Writer has Released ChatSonic, a Conversational AI Chatbot

A renowned AI writing tool called Writesonic has revealed a conversational AI chatbot called ChatSonic, claiming to enhance ChatGPT’s features and surpass its mistakes. The advantage of ChatSonic is that it constantly updates factual content using Google’s Knowledge Graph. With ChatSonic, instead of writing instructions down, users may simply voice them. What’s astonishing is that the AI can also read back the created responses.

2. Personal.ai Raises $7.8 Million in Seed Funding

Leading AI startup Personal.ai has raised $7.8 million in seed funding to develop its unique personal language model. The funding will advance GGT-1 (Generative Grounded Transformer), a model that trains on personal data instead of publicly available data. Many venture capitalists like Beni VC, Village Global, Keshif Ventures, Supernode, and Good Friends back the company.

3. Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Pune, to be Accessible on BharatVerse Metaverse

The day witnessed the signing of a memorandum of agreement between BharatVerse, India’s first metaverse platform, and Pune’s Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, making it the country’s first museum to choose the metaverse road. Users can access the metaverse experience using head-mounted devices, mobile phones, web browsers, etc.

4. Mental Health App Koko Comes Under Fire for Secretly Switching Counselors with AI Chatbot

Koko, an AI firm focused on mental health, came under fire for secretly replacing counselors with an AI chatbot for mental health support. Over 4,000 recipients were subjected to Koko’s test of GPT-3-generated AI responses without their knowledge. Co-founder Rob Morris describes it as a co-pilot strategy to see the future of health chatbots applied under professional monitoring.

5. US Club Hires ‘A Robotic Bouncer’

Sapphire, a Las Vegas, US club, has hired the world’s largest security guard—a robotic bouncer to welcome tech leaders over a weekend conference. The mechanical bouncer Mech “The Bot” Johnson is a 15-foot-tall and 8,800-pound heavy robot suit controlled by humans. The Bot, too big to fit through any door, was positioned outside the club’s entrance to delight guests waiting in line thoroughly.

6. MG Motors’ MGverse

MGverse, a virtual reality, 3D experience built on metaverse technology and made possible through a collaboration with Metadome.ai, has been announced by MG Motors. Users will be able to access the MG Pavilion, at the Auto Expo2023, from any location in the world using the MGverse. Users can also view their avatars by going to the MG expo pavilion, where they can interact with other avatars using interactive tools.

7. BrainChip in Talks with Accenture’s MD and Global CTO on AI Innovation

BrainChip, the company behind the world’s first low-power, fully digital neuromorphic AI IP, is talking with Jean-Luc Chatelain, MD and Global CTO of Accenture Applied Intelligence, on the “This is our Mission” podcast. The “This is Our Mission” podcast offers consumers, developers, analysts, technical and financial press members, and investors insight into the AI sector. On January 11, 3 p.m. PST, the podcast aired on the BrainChip website and several other podcasting apps.