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🪙 WorldCoin Stirs Backlash from EU Amidst Privacy Concerns
PLUS: The Bing Podcaster Prompt
Martin Crowley & Arturo Ferreira
July 31, 2023
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Happy Monday & welcome to the best resource for AI news, tools, tips, and tutorials.
Today: Worldcoin controversy, AI and Automation Services, the Bing prompt you can use to prepare for podcasts, and the real-time subtitle glasses everyone’s been talking about.
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🤫 Here’s your sneak peek of what you’ll learn today:
📈 Trending: Quick list of today’s most popular tools
💡Training: The Bing prompt to prepare for podcasts
🧠 News: WorldCoin privacy concerns receive EU backlash
Read Time: 5 minutes
Our Report: Worldcoin's recent global launch has quickly attracted attention from the EU due to privacy concerns.
🔑 Key Points:
Worldcoin, the brainchild of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, intends to verify an individual's humanness on the internet by scanning their eyes in exchange for cryptocurrency tokens.
The system's rollout has been initiated in four European countries: the U.K., France, Germany, and Spain.
Rapidly following the launch, privacy regulators from at least three of these nations voiced their concerns or launched investigations into Worldcoin's use of personal data.
The central debate revolves around the concept of "consent." Questions arise about whether consent can be genuinely free when individuals are enticed to provide their biometrics in return for a token, seen as a virtual currency.
🤨 Why you should care: The intersection of rapidly advancing technology and personal data privacy remains a contentious issue, especially when new technologies are introduced at such a global scale.
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We’ve recently expanded our prompts section to include new use cases:
ChatGPT prompts (best for business wizards)
Bing prompts (best for the tech & finance bros)
Midjourney prompts (best for aspiring artists)
Simply click the banner to use the tool and copy/paste the prompt.
‘The Professor’ prompt—great for expanding understanding.
“You are a professor in #broadtopic. I need you to formulate some questions to ask someone to get them to think about #specifictopic. The questions should not be broad. The user needs to be able to easily give a specific answer. I need them to be asked in a way that helps them understand what #specifictopic actually is. Real-life examples need to be posed in the question”
Bing Browser uses the internet to search; thus, use it to prepare for a podcast or get more from your favorite podcaster
“Help me prepare for a podcast interview with XYZ. The topic we’ve agreed to discuss is the rise of AI tools and services. Based on their most recent writing and podcasts, give me 10 questions I should anticipate”
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TranscribeGlass, an AR device invented by two Stanford students, displays real-time subtitles for the deaf or hard of hearing.
The attachment for glasses has gone viral on TikTok, with users highlighting its potential for translating languages. The startup's co-founder, Tom Pritsky, demonstrates the technology, which is still in beta and set to launch this winter.
ACT NEWS, a news platform on TikTok, introduces the world’s first fully AI automated news edition presented by digital avatar clones of journalists.
These AI-powered digital clones deliver the news while real reporters can simultaneously work elsewhere. This innovation sparks ethical debates about transparency, authenticity, and the future of human journalism.
French IT consultancy Capgemini reported increased revenue from cloud, data, and AI ventures, with plans to invest 2 billion euros in AI over the next three years.
Partnering with Microsoft and Google Cloud, the company focuses on aiding businesses in AI adoption.
🧐 Research improves robot dog running with efficient learning method
💡 Light-based computer system could boost the power of ChatGPT
🧠 Allowing machine learning to ask questions can make it smarter
👽 Machine learning model trained in outer space for the first time
📸 Open-source platform makes it easier to create 3D images
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