Hey man,

Ready for a knockout of a weekend!

Here’s the AI rundown for today:

• Amazon give Alexa an AI makeover 😁

• Scientists use AI to track animal behaviours 🐅

• Optimising your writing with ChatGPT 📝

• Duck Duck Goose 😂

Amazon gives Alexa an AI makeover 😁

‘Alexa, give me a rundown of your new AI’

During Amazon's September 2023 product launch event, significant updates to its home assistant Alexa were unveiled. These updates incorporate generative AI to enhance interactions and expand smart home management features.

Key highlights: ✨

• The updated Alexa is designed to engage in more natural conversations, reducing the reliance on specific commands. Now, you can make requests based on descriptions, such as adjusting room temperature!

• Alexa will have access to over 200 smart home APIs, improving its understanding of context and simplifying the control of connected devices.

• Alexa can now manage multiple requests simultaneously and provides developers with tools like Dynamic Controller and Action Controller for seamless integration with third-party devices.

Scientists use AI to track animal behaviours 🐅

Surely Quack wont get tracked… right? Guys…?

Currently, animal movement tracking methods involve manual and time-consuming processes with potential human errors. These methods are limited to specific conditions, and AI models rely on their training data. 🧑‍🔬

That’s why…

Eiman Azim and his team have developed GlowTrack, a non-invasive method for tracking movement. It uses fluorescent dye markers to train artificial intelligence and is efficient, precise, and capable of tracking small details: such as a duck’s webbed feet or numerous points on a human hand. ✋

By using invisible fluorescent dye markers on animals or humans, this allows for the rapid creation of diverse data without manual work. 🐾 AI models can then use this data to track movements in various environments and at high resolutions, which would be challenging with human labelling.

In the future, the research team plans to expand the applications of GlowTrack and combine its features with other tracking tools that can reconstruct movements in three dimensions. 😎

Optimising your writing with ChatGPT 📝

Even Quack gets writers block when pumping out this newsletter…

To any aspiring writers, students or anyone trying to cram a 1000 word essay in one night - we’ve got you covered with four easy prompts you can use in ChatGPT as assistance. 😙

1. Refine the tone of your message/writing.

2. Generate synonyms/antonyms for words.

This one’s especially useful if you find your writing dull and need more creative flair!

3. Generate more options for a sentence starter.

4. Create titles or hooks for your writing.

Quack kept this short and sweet! So that you can easily remember, and use some of these prompts in your own writing. 🐣

Duck, duck… Goose!

Today’s question:

What did the wolfman say to the sentient AI?

Find out in the next issue!

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