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On today’s menu:

• A robotic artwork makes waves with a record-breaking sale at Sotheby’s

• AI agents are gearing up to interact directly with the software we use every day

• ChatGPT gets a live vision feature to better understand the world around us

• A surgical robot learns medical procedures by watching videos

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TODAY’S DEFINITION

Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering is the art and technique of crafting precise and structured instructions to communicate effectively with artificial intelligence models and get the most relevant, best-tailored answers possible.

THE TOP STORY

🎨 A robotic artwork smashes records

The humanoid robot Ai-Da just made contemporary art history with a remarkable sale at Sotheby’s. Its portrait of Alan Turing, an iconic figure in computing, sold for a whopping $1.3 million, a world first for a work created by a robot.

Details:

• The piece, titled “AI God,” sparked a real frenzy, drawing 27 bidders and beating the initial estimate ($120,000 – $180,000) by nearly 10x

• Ai-Da’s unique creative process blends traditional art with cutting-edge technology: cameras built into its eyes capture images, while its robotic arms bring the work to life

• The piece is part of a broader reflection on our relationship with technology, and was even exhibited at the United Nations’ AI for Good Summit

• Sotheby’s confirms this is the first major sale of a work created by a humanoid robot

Why I’m telling you about this ⤵️

This historic sale raises fascinating questions about the future of art and how willing we are to accept non-human creators. While opinions on AI-generated art remain divided, this transaction undeniably marks a turning point in art history. These early works may well become precious witnesses to the dawn of the robotics and AI revolution in the art world.

🤖 AI agents are learning to use your computer

A major shift is coming in how artificial intelligence interacts with our everyday tools. Until now, AI has been confined to a simple chat window, able to give advice but not to act. That limitation is about to disappear.

The game-changing details:

• AI agents will soon be able to interact directly with software, without needing a dedicated API

• They’ll be able to automate tasks across different tools, even when those tools don’t talk to each other

• This capability paves the way for two types of agents:

  • General-purpose agents for broad tasks

  • Specialized agents that excel in specific domains

This shift is a major turning point for:

• Developers, who will have to rethink their projects

• Entrepreneurs, who will be able to spot new opportunities

• Users, who will benefit from deeper automation

Why I’m telling you about this ⤵️

We’re on the verge of a significant transformation in the way we interact with technology. Imagine an assistant that can not only advise you, but also carry out the necessary actions directly in your favorite software. For AI, it’s the equivalent of going from theory to practice, opening up a huge range of possibilities for automation and productivity.

📱 Vision comes to ChatGPT: a new horizon for interaction

Artificial intelligence is taking another step toward understanding our physical world. A discovery in the code of ChatGPT’s beta version reveals the upcoming arrival of a “Live Camera” feature, which would let OpenAI’s assistant interact with our surroundings in real time.

Details:

• The feature will build on the existing Advanced Voice Mode, adding a visual dimension to the assistant’s capabilities

• Early tests already show promising results: ChatGPT demonstrated it could identify and remember objects in its surroundings, like a dog and its ball, and understand how they interact

• This development opens the door to a wide range of practical applications:

  • Live object and product recognition

  • Visual assistance for tutorials

  • Contextual answers based on your immediate surroundings

Why I’m telling you about this ⤵️

This breakthrough is a natural evolution for ChatGPT, bringing it closer to a fuller understanding of our world. By combining vision and conversation, the assistant could become a more intuitive and relevant companion in our daily lives, able to help us in more concrete, context-aware ways.

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LEARN TO MASTER AI

🎨 Turn Your Product Photos into Ad Visuals

Discover how Ideogram is revolutionizing marketing content creation by letting you easily turn your product photos into professional ad visuals. This innovative solution lets you adapt your images to different formats while keeping a natural look and adding seamlessly integrated text.

Here’s how to do it in a few simple steps:

1. Head over to Ideogram Canvas and upload your product photo

2. Use the “Extend” feature to resize your image to the format you want

3. Turn on “Magic Fill” and pick your preferred tool (brush, lasso or rectangle) to touch up the extended areas

4. Customize your visual by adding AI-generated text effects

For a full demo, I put together a detailed tutorial that includes creating a desk scene featuring my collector mug of Pixl, the Five Minute AI mascot.

WHAT THE RESEARCH SAYS

🤖 The robot that learns surgery by watching videos

Details:

• Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have made a major breakthrough in robotic surgery by developing a system that can learn complex surgical procedures simply by watching videos of surgeons.

• The da Vinci robot demonstrated it could master essential surgical tasks such as needle manipulation, tissue lifting and suturing with precision comparable to a human’s.

• The system uses an innovative imitation learning approach, combining a ChatGPT-like architecture with kinematics principles. This method lets the robot “understand” surgical movements and translate them into precise motions.

Why I’m telling you about this:
This innovation is an important step in the evolution of robot-assisted surgery. The ability to learn by observation could transform how surgical robots are trained, letting them quickly pick up new skills without specific programming for each movement. It’s especially interesting to see how the robot developed spontaneous adaptive abilities, like picking up a dropped needle, without being explicitly programmed to do so.

THE HOTTEST NEW TOOLS

💡 THE TOOLS:

• 🎨 Adobe GenStudio gives marketing teams a smart solution for measuring and optimizing content creation while staying true to brand identity.

• 🔍 FactBot by Snopes takes on urban legends and misinformation with a methodical, reliable approach.

• 💰 JustPaid simplifies financial management by intuitively automating invoice and payment tracking.

• 🤖 ell offers a lightweight framework for prompt engineering, helping you optimize interactions with language models.

• 📊 Pathway helps product teams test and analyze their UX solutions with a data-driven approach.

• 🎥 Tubit AI turns YouTube videos into smart summaries for a deeper understanding of the content.

• 🎯 Supademo 3.0 lets you create interactive product demos that naturally grab users’ attention.

• 🎬 Cracked copilot revolutionizes motion design by generating animations from simple text descriptions.

• 📄 AnyParser Sandbox optimizes text extraction and document retrieval with remarkable efficiency.

IN THE NEWS

• ElevenLabs unveils Voice Design, a new tool that lets you create a unique, custom voice from just a text description.

• YouTube introduces Dream Screen, an experimental feature that lets creators generate custom backgrounds for their Shorts using text prompts.

• Apple is preparing a new AI-powered version of Siri, designed for more natural conversations and handling complex tasks, with a launch planned for 2026.

• Researchers present AnimateAnything, a new video generation method delivering smooth, consistent animations thanks to an innovative multi-scale control system.

• Meta is upgrading Messenger with new AI features, including generated backgrounds for video calls and smart noise suppression.

• xAI, Elon Musk’s company, raises $5 billion and hits a $50 billion valuation, with plans that include acquiring 100,000 Nvidia chips to train AI models.

YOUR DAILY DOSE OF CONTENT

1. 🎙️ YouTube takes a new step forward by introducing an automatic dubbing feature that translates voices into different languages while preserving their original tone.

I said podcasts but it’s happening on YouTube first:

YouTube will now auto dub videos in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Hindi, Indonesian and Japanese

The dubs will use AI to take the original voice but change the language (like @lexfridman’s podcast… x.com/i/web/status/1…

@levelsio @levelsio

Many things will change once American podcasts can be instantly translated using AI with the same voice as the original podcaster but in 200+ local languages

Could be a @Spotify feature

A lot of Spanish, Brazilian, French, German, Dutch, Korean, Japanese podcasters are simply… x.com/i/web/status/1…

12:22 AM • Nov 21, 2024

2.45K Likes   198 Retweets  

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1. 🎬 An impressive technical feat in this AI-generated short film, which stands out for its realistic lip-syncing and well-crafted, funny storytelling.

Probably the best AI lip-syncing I’ve seen in a while.

Tutorial below 👇

7:08 PM • Nov 3, 2024

965 Likes   153 Retweets  

THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY

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