💰 What Does AI Know About You?

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Nick Charanjiva
October 20, 2023

Good morning, side hustlers, and happy Friday!

Here’s the TLDR: AI can infer a lot about you from your prompts/responses, Marc Andreessen published a piece called the Techno-Optimist Manifesto, and we’ve realized it’ll be impossible to tell when AI becomes conscious (uh-oh).

In today’s edition, we have:

  • 🛠️ 5 tools to get your side hustle off the ground

  • ⭐ 1 featured tool

  • 🚀 3 top tips to get your entrepreneurship juices flowing

  • 🗞 AI news this week

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🛠️ Tools for Side Hustlers 🛠️ 
🔍️ What we found for you this week 🔍️ 

  • 📺 YTClass - Learn anything with help of AI

  • 🧠 Intellize - AI-first observability platform

  • 💁‍♂️ Xembly - Meet Xena, your AI-powered executive assistant

  • 📁 Dokkio - Find, organize, and understand all your online files

  • 🔁 LoopGenius - Automate your marketing process to land the first 100 customers for your personal brand, side hustle, or business

📺 Featured tool: YTClass 📺

Sometimes, you don’t need a tool to automate workflows or boost your productivity. More often than not, we spend a large chunk of our days spending time learning about a new topic, idea, or skill - but that doesn’t mean you can’t use AI tools to expedite the process.

With YTClass, you can leverage AI to maximize your efficiency when learning about a topic through online videos. This tool simulates an in-class environment by offering a ChatGPT-style tutor next to the video in case you want to dive deeper on an idea presented in the video or simply want something clarified.

💡Top Tips💡

💰 Keeping your days productive can be a challenging ask.
Not everyone can stay motivated for every minute of every day. Sometimes we need a routine or strategy to help us tackle our toughest days. Here are 10 of the most effective methods for staying productive with your time. Read more here. 

💭 How one entrepreneur hit $20k MRR in 6 months without marketing
Non-technical solo founder, Dustin Stout, built an all-in-one AI content creation suite in 2 months using no code. Then he grew it from $0 to $20k MRR in 6 months without marketing. Read more here.

🤝 Work smarter, not harder.
Long hours, little sleep, and loads of caffeine — these are the key ingredients to success in many people’s eyes, but it doesn’t always equate to success. What does lead to success is maximum productivity and a healthy balance in life. Read more here.

🗞 AI News Roundup 🗞

AI chatbots can infer an alarming amount of info about you from your responses

This troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads.

arstechnica.com/?p=1976786

IBM expands AWS partnership to bring generative AI to call centers, supply chains

IBM today expanded its partnership with AWS to re-engineer key enterprise solutions with generative AI capabilities.

venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-expands-aws-partnership-to-bring-generative-ai-to-call-centers-supply-chains

Jasper launches new marketing AI copilot: ‘No one should have to work alone again’

New features include analytics to optimize content, a company intelligence hub to align messaging with brand strategy, and campaign tools.

venturebeat.com/ai/jasper-launches-new-marketing-ai-copilot-no-one-should-have-to-work-alone-again

Marc Andreessen publishes ‘Techno-Optimist Manifesto’, names enemies including ‘ESG’, ‘Trust and Safety’

Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, on Monday published a defiant and provocative blog post he calls "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.”

venturebeat.com/ai/marc-andreessen-publishes-techno-optimist-manifesto-names-enemies-including-esg-trust-and-safety

Midjourney’s first mobile app is here…sort of

Midjourney partnered with engineers from Japanese game company Sizigi Studios to launch Niji Journey, an Android and iOS app.

venturebeat.com/ai/midjourneys-first-mobile-app-is-here-sort-of

How moving AI to the edge can help solve the data center energy crisis

Clearly, putting AI on the edge is a beneficial path forward for enterprises looking to lower their power bills and environmental impacts.

venturebeat.com/ai/how-moving-ai-to-the-edge-can-help-solve-the-data-center-energy-crisis

Jasper launches new marketing AI copilot: ‘No one should have to work alone again’

New features include analytics to optimize content, a company intelligence hub to align messaging with brand strategy, and campaign tools.

venturebeat.com/ai/jasper-launches-new-marketing-ai-copilot-no-one-should-have-to-work-alone-again

How transparent are AI models? Stanford researchers found out.

Today Stanford University took a big swing on evaluating the transparency of a variety of AI large language models.

venturebeat.com/ai/how-transparent-are-ai-models-stanford-researchers-found-out

Meta recreates mental imagery from brain scans using AI

Being able to look inside a person's mind is a new level of invasiveness that technology has not yet attained on a large scale.

venturebeat.com/ai/meta-can-now-read-minds-and-recreate-your-mental-imagery-with-image-decoder

EY and IBM team up on AI to automate HR processes

EY plans to tap IBM's Watsonx Orchestrate to automate HR processes like drafting job descriptons and analyzing employee feedback surveys.

venturebeat.com/ai/ey-and-ibm-team-up-on-ai-to-automate-hr-processes

Invisible AI watermarks won’t stop bad actors. But they are a ‘really big deal’ for good ones

New digital watermarking functions allow anyone to provide information about AI-generated content provenance.

venturebeat.com/ai/invisible-ai-watermarks-wont-stop-bad-actors-but-they-are-a-really-big-deal-for-good-ones

China has a new plan for judging the safety of generative AI—and it’s packed with details

A new proposal spells out the very specific ways companies should evaluate AI security and enforce censorship in AI models.

www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/18/1081846/generative-ai-safety-censorship-china

Nvidia teams with Foxconn to boost electric vehicle AI

Foxconn, the world's biggest electronics manufacturer, announced a strategic partnership with Nvidia to accelerate the development of EVs.

venturebeat.com/games/nvidia-teams-with-foxconn-to-boost-electric-vehicle-ai

Why it’ll be hard to tell if AI ever becomes conscious

We know remarkably little about how AI systems work, so how will we know if AI becomes conscious?

www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081818/why-itll-be-hard-to-tell-if-ai-ever-becomes-conscious

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