What's up? You're reading Inclined AI. I’m writing this edition on a walking treadmill. This feels like an accident waiting to happen…

Here are some headlines to walk out:

• Snapchat users got a scare from My AI

• Google is testing a new AI assistant

• Colleges try to prepare for a new year w/ ChatGPT

• Learn what AI is doing to the construction industry

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It felt like something from a sci-fi movie.

On Tuesday night, Snapchat’s My AI tool went on the fritz and caused a wave of concern among users. It turned out to be a glitch, but the response is telling.

After all, you can’t keep calm when your artificial companion starts posting images to their story and refusing to respond to you. That’s weird.

The situation didn’t need all this alarm for no reason, but Snapchat’s excuse is worrisome.

I could quote their complete statement, but it all amounts to, “lol, our bad. That was a bug, hakuna matata y’all.” An outage for AI shouldn’t spawn a user-wide panic. We can all agree on that.

Moreover, the whole episode is the cherry on top of this crappy sundae that Snapchat made. Their revenue is in the toilet, and their users don’t enjoy using My AI.

Parents hate it too, and all this highlights that this outage is worsening a bad situation.

Snapchat needs to quit while they’re behind. This new fiasco is making things worse and harming the perception of AI tools and development.

When users think these models don’t work or, god forbid, that they are acting with their own free will, it takes a lot of PR to correct the situation. If Snap weren’t already so irrelevant, this would be a Tay situation all over again (if you don’t know about Tay, it’s what happens when you let AI say anything it wants after spending 2.5 seconds on Twitter).

So, if you witnessed this mess, sorry for the blip in the road to progress. If you could care less and don’t use Snapchat, you’re on the right track; carry on.

Meet the AI company that’s built a brand new type of search

What if you took the latest in neural networks and NLP, then married it to a database of more than 5M photos and videos?

Well, you’d get technology that would let you engineer hyper-specific searches to dive through mass amounts of visual content. You’d get a brand-new type of search product.

You’d get, as the AI company Archive calls it, Super Search.

What is it — and why should you care?

At its core, Super Search is an AI search engine for text and video. Think of something, type it out, and Super Search will find it. Super Search works like you think, and it feels like magic.

You can search with images and video, not just text. And you can search for specific things within a video — for example, you could drag-and-drop a product image and Super Search could surface an unboxing video that features that product.

Right now, Super Search is being used by a small number of leading marketers and fast-growing brands, who leverage it to dive through visual context 10x faster than they used to. Because Super Search works for any post you’ve been tagged in on Instagram and TikTok, brands can find new influencers and winning ad creative in a matter of seconds.

Of course, the actual practical implications of AI tech like this are near-limitless.

Archive’s got a whole series of new AI developments coming down the pipeline — with incredibly broad applications. If you work in marketing, or you’re fascinated by the potential of this AI tech for a number of applications, then you’ll want to check Archive out.

Want to see the tech? Try Archive for free.

Google continues to face a conundrum: do we give everyone everything or show restraint?

You’re not going to get an answer in this newsletter, sorry. But we can offer a piece of news that illustrates the problem.

See, Google DeepMind is moving fast, and their AI models are top of the line, whether you realize it or not. One of their projects is an assistant that can offer detailed life advice and problem-solving. 

The new AI assistant would be there for every situation and offer tailored solutions to complex human issues.

You can ask ChatGPT how to tell your friend you won’t make their wedding, but it will spit out generic advice. This assistant by Google specializes in this space and can get into the nitty-gritty of a problem.

It can even teach you new life skills and help you through significant changes in your life. So, why are they worried about releasing it? 

Have you ever seen WALL-E? If AI solves everything for us, we cannot think for ourselves. The people behind the project worry that users will let their emotional abilities decay while a bot decides every decision.

We must remember that as AI develops, we can’t let it take away what makes us human.

🏗️ AI can’t build your skyscraper, but it can save money and time on construction

🦅 Learn how Washington leaned on Wall St. experts to help revive the chip industry

🎓 This school year, colleges are more prepared to handle the effects of ChatGPT

🧬 AI helps researchers find new, quicker ways to diagnose autism

🤖 Meet Narratron, a hand-cranked AI storytelling machine

📚 AI will read your next audiobook, and it’s okay if you’re worried

📌 The next decade of AI is not something you can prepare for easily

💰 OpenAI buys the company behind a Minecraft clone that specializes in AI-enabled interactive tools

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