33% of Americans use AI

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In today’s update:

📰 News: 1 in 3 Americans used AI

🛠️ Tools: Accurate calorie tracker

🎲 Misc: Chatbot race is heating up

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1 in 3 Americans used AI tools

What: AI is suddenly everywhere, everyone says it’s the future - but how exactly is it being used today? Verge polled 2,000 US based adults to figure this out and the results are interesting -

• Leveraging AI: 1 in 3 people have used an AI powered tool and more than 57% have heard of ChatGPT.

• Type of Work: People are using AI to search for information, brainstorm with chatbots and create art including images and music.

• Upgrading performance: Most people believe using AI has improved their work performance, with some even conceding that AI outperforms their own capabilities!

What’s next: We're currently in the early adopter phase of the tech adoption curve, where you get the most lucrative reward-to-risk ratio for utilizing the technology.

As AI matures and further permeates the market, AI will move from being a strategic edge to an absolute necessity for competition.

New Tools
Leverage AI to grow

• SnapCalorie: The app uses depth-sensors on your phone to estimate the portion sizes, for accurate count of calorie in your food! (link)

• Emma AI: A tool that helps you to build custom AI assistant for each of your teams, project and workflows. It connects with your tools, databases to source relevant information. (link)

• Lotus: An AI therapist dedicated to actively listening, offering support, and providing guidance to navigate life's challenges. It also has strict security measures to protect your data.(link)

Misc
From the corners of the Internet

• Europe to Open AI ‘Crash Test’ Centers to provide a safe space to test AI and robotics in real-life settings before they hit the market - Bloomberg

• Japanese bank Mizohu rolls out generative AI to all 45,000 employees - Bloomberg

• Databrick strikes a $1.3B deal to acquire MosaicML, a platform to train and deploy AI models - Wall Street Journal

• Chatbot race is heating up: Google’s AI research unit, Deepmind, claims its next chatbot will rival ChatGPT -Wired, China’s Baidu says its Earnie bot beats ChatGPT - CNBC

• Immigrants play an outsize role in the AI game - 65% of the AI companies in US have at least one immigrant co-founder - Axios