AI News Stories

1. Bill Ackman Wants AI Plagiarism Startup to Target Academia

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman proposes using AI to detect plagiarism in top universities following the resignation of Harvard's president over academic plagiarism. He suggests expanding this technology to all elite schools and funding a startup to perform AI plagiarism checks. However, Ackman's wife faces recent plagiarism accusations, which he claims are retaliation for his pressure on universities. Despite this, he advocates for large-scale AI plagiarism screening. Read More.

2. Palantir Downgraded on 'AI Euphoria' Valuation

Palantir's stock price fell 3.4% after Jefferies gave it a "sell" rating. The analysts think the stock is overvalued because of too much "hype" around AI. Even though Jefferies sees Palantir's strong technology advantages with AI, they believe the stock price went up too fast. Jefferies remains positive on Palantir's business long-term. But they now see more "risk" than "reward" at the current stock price. This is even accounting for improved earnings estimates. Jefferies is still a fan of Palantir's future AI abilities. But they say excitement from everyday investors and AI "buzz" inflated the stock price. Read More. Takeaways:

• Palantir stock fell 3.4% after Jefferies downgrade to "sell"

• Jefferies believes overvaluation driven by AI hype

• Stock price surged too fast despite no monetization plan

• Jefferies bullish long-term, concerned about risks now

3. The AI-Powered Future of Mobile Arrives at Galaxy Unpacked

• Samsung hosting Galaxy Unpacked 2024 event on January 17

• Will unveil latest premium Galaxy innovations focused on AI

• Promising an "intelligent mobile experience" powered by AI

• New Galaxy S series to set higher standard for AI on mobile

• Livestream available on Samsung's website, YouTube, and Newsroom

• Event starts at 10am PST/1pm EST/6pm GMT/7pm CET

4. AI Weather Models: Cheaper, Faster, But How Reliable?

Artificial intelligence models are beginning to supplement standard weather and climate prediction tools. AI-based models like Google's GraphCast will face real tests with upcoming winter storms. These models are trained on data to learn systems, unlike physics-based models. Some experts are skeptical about relying too heavily on AI models, as they can seem like unpredictable "black boxes." But AI models run faster and cheaper than physics-based ones. They could greatly benefit weather and climate science, though likely not replace traditional models soon. AI's projections are only as good as their training data. Climate change impacts not in the data could be missed. Overall, AI brings major potential changes to meteorology and climatology. Read More.

AI-Powered Business: Mark at Entrepreneur Organization Nerve 2023

Nearly 1000 entrepreneurs descended on Tampa this year for Entrepreneur Organization's annual Nerve event. Join Mark as he shares his experience and insights and explores the potential of AI in business. He covers various AI applications, including automating tasks, generating creative content, and enhancing customer service. Mark also discusses challenges like data management and algorithmic bias, but emphasizes the overall benefits of AI for businesses. The video provides concrete examples, such as reducing blog writing time from two hours to five minutes using AI.

AI Tools

Otter AI [Mark’s Pick] is an AI-powered meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings in real-time. It integrates with popular video conferencing platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, and can automatically generate meeting notes. Otter AI Meeting Assistant can extract action items, capture slides, and generate an AI meeting summary. OtterPilot for Sales automatically extracts Sales Insights, writes follow-up emails, and pushes call notes to Salesforce and HubSpot. Otter AI is a great tool for businesses looking to save time and improve productivity during meetings.

Stability AI is an open-source generative AI company that provides breakthrough AI models in imaging, language, code, and audio. Their mission is to activate humanity’s potential by building a foundation for open-access AI models with minimal resource requirements. They offer Stable Diffusion XL, a foundation model for creating incredible applications, Stable Audio, a first-of-its-kind product that uses generative AI techniques to deliver faster, higher-quality music, and Stable LM, a cutting-edge open access language model. Stability AI is a great tool for developers looking to create innovative applications.

Dash AI is a free, no-code machine learning dashboard that allows you to build and train machine learning models with ease. It offers eight state-of-the-art machine learning models and automated machine learning, which eliminates the need for tedious data preparation. Dash AI also provides algorithmic analysis to produce a single, optimized ensemble model. You can use it to gain insights into your data and become data-driven. All your data stays on your computer, and there are no servers involved.

BlogSEO AI is an AI-powered tool that helps you generate high-quality, SEO-friendly blog content in minutes. It offers a range of features such as a meta description generator, keyword research, internal link builder, schema markup generator, and table of contents builder. BlogSEO AI’s AI understands your content and adapts to your writing style, making it easy to create compelling content that ranks well on search engines. It’s user-friendly and requires no technical skills.

Flot AI is an AI copilot that can be used in any app or website. It is powered by ChatGPT and GPT-4, the latest artificial intelligence model from OpenAI. Flot AI  allows you to use ChatGPT anywhere you type or select without copy-pasting. You can ask the AI to write, improve, paraphrase, summarize, translate, explain, or reply to any text with just one click. Flot AI provides a seamless integration across apps and websites.