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Monday’s top story: Elon Musk launched, and then swiftly deleted, a new image generator for its chatbot, Grok.
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🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report
🤔 Musk launches (then deletes) new image generator
🔏 How to protect your personal info online with Incogni
⛈️ Google outperforms top weather model?
💼 How to start your career as an AI Consultant with Innovating with AI
🗺️ How to create an ad campaign using ChatGPT
🕊️ OpenAI’s 2nd day of Shipmas brings…
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FACT OF THE DAY
🤔 Around one-fifth of healthcare organizations have adopted AI models—reducing time spent on admin tasks by around 20%—and by 2025, 90% of hospitals will use AI-powered technology for early diagnosis and remote patient monitoring.
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IMAGE GENERATION
Our Report: Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), launched a new AI image generator—Aurora—for its chatbot, Grok, on Saturday, but took it down just one day later, suggesting it was released to the public too early, with Musk claiming it was an “internal image generation system. Still in beta, but will improve quickly.”
🔑 Key Points:
During the few hours it was live, users confirmed that, like Grok's first image generator (launched in October), Aurora had few restrictions, meaning it could generate offensive images of public and copyrighted figures.
And, although users praised Aurora’s ability to create photorealistic images, they did find faults, including objects blending unnaturally and people without fingers (hands are hard for image generators).
It’s unknown whether Musk’s AI start-up—xAI—built/trained Aurora, if it was built onto an existing image generator, or if Musk used a third party, but Musk did allude to developing an “image generation system” in August.
🤔 Why you should care: The release (and subsequent takedown) of Aurora comes after Musk made Grok available to all users, for nothing (users previously had to pay $8p/m to use it), and xAI closed a $6B funding round, to reportedly build a standalone app for Grok and release the next generation of Grok, Grok 3.
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WEATHER
Our Report: Google’s DeepMind research team has released an AI weather forecasting model—GenCast—which they’re saying outperforms traditional weather forecasting from the world's top-tier forecasting model—ENS—made by the ‘European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
🔑 Key Points:
GenCast was trained on weather data from 1979 to 2018—learning patterns in the historical data, allowing it to make accurate future weather predictions—and when tested, outperformed ENS 97.2% of the time.
For example, GenCast could give an extra 12 hours of advanced warning when predicting the path of a tropical cyclone and could produce a 15-day forecaster in 8 minutes vs the ENS, which takes several hours.
It “comprises 50+ weather predictions, each representing a possible weather trajectory,” creating a “complex probability distribution of future weather scenarios,” which Google is set to incorporate into Search and Maps.
🤔 Why you should care: Although it appears to have outperformed the ENS model, GenCast was tested against an older version of the system, from 2019, and even though Google did test it against ENS data from 2020 to 2022—and found similar results—these results haven’t been peer-reviewed, making it difficult to say if the model does actually perform better, as ENS has been vastly improved since 2019.
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TOGETHER WITH INNOVATING WITH AI
The AI consulting market is about to grow by a factor of 8X – from $6.9B to $54.7B in 2032.
But how does an AI enthusiast become an AI consultant?
How well you answer that question makes the difference between just “having AI ideas” and being handsomely compensated for your contribution to an organization’s AI transformation.
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PROMPT ENGINEERING
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Monday’s Prompt: How to create an ad campaign with the customer journey map using ChatGPT
Type this prompt into ChatGPT:
Write an advertising campaign outline using the 'Customer Journey Map' framework that visualizes the journey from [awareness] to [conversion] for [ideal customer persona] and creates content that aligns with each stage. Identify their [pain points] and present our [product/service] as a way to overcome those issues, highlighting the [features] and [benefits] of our product and explaining how it can [improve their situation]
Results: After typing this prompt, you will get an ad campaign outline with content ideas that align with every stage of your customer’s journey.
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ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS
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BREAKING NEWS
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FEATURES
On day 2 of OpenAI’s ‘12 days of OpenAI’ Shipmas campaign, they previewed a new feature—reinforcement fine-tuning—which enables developers to customize its models for specialized use cases.
OpenAI uses reinforcement fine-tuning internally, to improve its models, so giving users access will allow them to build “expert models fine-tuned to excel at specific sets of complex, domain-specific tasks.”
It’s giving developers and researchers across industries like law, healthcare, and engineering the ability to apply to test the new feature, intending to make it publicly available, early next year.
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📜 A look back before we move forward…
Brothers-in-law, Martin Crowley and Arturo Ferreira, started AI Tool Report back in April 2023, to help people understand what AI was, the benefits it could bring, and what AI tools to use.
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