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Here’s the AI rundown for today:

• Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot finds recipe use for household items 🧽

• The emerging shift from cryptocurrency to AI 🪙

• Can AI use the sound of a keyboard to hack passwords? 😵‍💫

Ant-poison and glue sandwiches 🥪

As long as there’s peas, Quack will still eat it…

New Zealand supermarket chain Pak ‘n’ Save created Savey Meal-bot, an app that uses generative AI to conjure up recipes based on the user’s input of available ingredients. In this economy, there seems to be no better way to use ALL those leftovers in your kitchen 💸

However, it turns out that this Meal-bot can make some pretty unappealing recommendations…

Customers began experimenting by entering a wide variety of inedible, everyday household products into the AI’s generative system.

And with that, it produced recipes for the likes of ‘Chlorine Gas Water Mix’ 🧪 and ‘Mosquito Repellent Potatoes’ 🥔 They’ve since shared these on social media.

What does Pak ‘n’ Save think?

The supermarket responded to these concoctions by clarifying that the recipes are ‘not reviewed by a human being’. They also noted that the bot should be used appropriately and with careful judgement ✅

(NOTE: it seems that some people DO think that ‘Bleach Mocktails’ are safe to drink)

Will AI face the crypto crackdown? 💹

Bye bye Bitcoin 👋

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman, Gary Gensler, has announced the shift in focus from cryptocurrency to AI. 👀

Quack will now explain what he means by this. In simple terms of course.

There are concerns over AI being used to predict stock markets going up ⬆️ or down ⬇️, and whether that could cause market instability and error.

As a result, Gensler has proposed a regulatory framework for AI in the finance industry. It requires that trading spaces carefully evaluate their use of AI when predicting data - so that it doesn’t cause any conflict of interest between companies and their clients/shareholders. 🤺

AI holds promises in revolutionising the industry, but experts agree that a balance is needed between promoting innovation and protecting investor market integrity. 😇

AI can guess your password, by the sound of keys 💥

Quack cant watch ASMR typing videos the same anymore.

Even though every key might sound the same to our puny, human ears - AI can detect a lot more.

Research conducted by the University of Surrey suggests that AI can work out that the key being pressed JUST by the sound it makes while typing on a laptop keyboard (with more than 90% accuracy). 👂

The study involved:

1. Researchers pressing the 36 keys on a MacBook Pro

2. Each sound being recorded a short distance from the keyboard

3. The data being fed into a machine learning system

4. Having each key assigned its own sound

As video conference tools, such as ZOOM or WEBEX, have grown in use - the threat of cyber attacks based on sound have risen 📈 These applications all use built-in microphones that hackers may use to access private information and now, potentially passwords. 😥

To minimise this fear, two-factor authentication can come in handy. 🤝

Maybe its time to stop using the same password for everything… (Guilty!)

Duck, duck… Goose!

Today’s question:

What did the Droid do at lunchtime?

Find out in the next issue!

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