🤖 White House Wants Cloud Data

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Here's what’s brewing:

• The White House requests AI customer data from cloud service providers

• Google Pixel 8 leaks show off AI camera features

• Football trash-talk gets the AI treatment

• Meta makes a sassy AI chatbot for youngsters

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The White House wants a more transparent line of sight into who's renting cloud space for AI shenanigans. 

Think of it as the government becoming the nosy neighbor in a techie cul-de-sac, peeking through the blinds whenever someone new moves in.

"Oh look, a startup from the Middle East is renting a boatload of server space from Amazon. Let's see what they're up to."

Sound creepy or sensible?

Regardless, it's a fascinating twist in the ever-dynamic relationship between cloud computing and artificial intelligence companies. 

This "know-your-customer" vibe already exists in banking to flag illegal activities. So, if Mr. Startup suddenly splurges on computing power to train a whopper of a language model, Uncle Sam wants a heads-up.

Why? To preemptively sniff out AI threats, especially from abroad.

It's almost like treating computing power as a national resource, which could be good news for AI heavyweights advocating for such oversight.

However, there's a hitch: Computing power is like a smartphone—constantly upgrading. By the time any regulation sets a "threshold," it might already be outdated, like your uncle's Blackberry.

Plus, consider the conflict of interest.

Microsoft, an OpenAI investor, would be mandated to snitch on a startup using Azure to develop a ChatGPT rival. Awkward.

Bottom line?

The devil is in the details. If done right, this could be a game-changing tool for national security. But as any good relationship counselor will tell you, trust but verify.

Or, in this case, trust, verify, and keep an eye on the cloud.

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Ah, the Google Pixel 8's camera leaks are here, and boy, do they pack a wizard's sleeve of AI tricks. 

Think of it as Photoshop, but in real-time, on your phone.

The Magic Editor is a game-changer; it lets you Frankenstein the perfect family portrait by merging multiple shots. No more "Mom, why's my face like that?" complaints during the holidays!

But here's the rub:

With AI this good, can we even tell what's real anymore?

You can turn a dreary afternoon into a stunning sunset with a swipe, but it's like adding CGI to home videos. It questions the authenticity of those "Kodak moments."

With new DSLR-style manual controls, too, Pixel 8 is turning us all into pocket-sized Ansel Adams.

Great for the Instagram game; perplexing for the truth game.

So, gear up because AI in cameras isn't just stepping up the game; it's rewriting the rulebook.

👾 NASA’s Mars rover proves it’s possible to use AI without replacing workers

🩺 AI can help doctors diagnose medical ailments and save time

💁 Meta plans to add a sassy chatbot in their lineup to bring in more young users

📌 Insider breaks everything we know so far about Google’s Gemini model

📄 Empower your PDFs with a little help from ChatGPT

🏈 Talk more trash in football this year by using AI to automate your responses

😖 Microsoft worries that people will become over-reliant on their AI assistants

🖼️ Here’s a question: Is AI actively making the internet worse?

• PumpGPT - GPT that saves you 60% on AWS (link)

• BulkCorrect - correct the grammar of an entire book (link)

• Pricein - find the same product for a lower price (link)

• Stylize - make incredible edits to your photos (link)

• VOMO - turn your voice into structured notes (link)

• Lemonstock - build your portfolio & invest (link)

• EZtrackr - AI-tailored job application answers (link)

• VoxCraft - create 3D models from text (link)

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_{- That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of inclined.ai - Davis.}