👖👕 Amazon’s AI is your new personal stylist! 💁‍♀️👗

Duolingo’s AI 🤖 is taking over as the company cuts 10% of its contractor workforce 😢

In today's news:

👕👖 Amazon Fashion uses AI to find your perfect fit online 🙌👏

🤖📉📚 Duolingo cuts 10% of its contractor workforce as it shifts towards AI-powered content creation 🧑‍💻

Quora’s Poe is a Go: AI Chat Bot Platform Secures $75M from a16z 🚀🤖👏

🏠🗺️ Samsung unveils smart home maps with cute AI characters at CES 2024 🤖👾

👕👖 Amazon Fashion uses AI to find your perfect fit online 🙌👏

Amazon has recently launched a new feature called “Fit Assistant” that uses AI to help customers find clothing sizes based on customer data. The feature is designed to reduce the number of returns due to poor fit, which is a major issue for online retailers. The technology is currently available for women’s clothing, but Amazon plans to expand it to men’s clothing in the future.

• 👕 Amazon is using AI to help customers find clothes that fit when shopping online 🤖
• 👔 The new feature is called “Fit Assistant” and uses machine learning to recommend clothing sizes based on customer data 📈
• 📉 The technology is designed to reduce the number of returns due to poor fit, which is a major issue for online retailers 🛍️
• 👗The feature is currently available for women’s clothing, but Amazon plans to expand it to men’s clothing in the future 👩

     Read about it here: Link

🤖📉📚 Duolingo cuts 10% of its contractor workforce as it shifts towards AI-powered content creation 🧑‍💻

Duolingo, the language-learning platform, has recently cut around 10% of its contractor workforce as it shifts towards using AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to streamline content production and translations. The company has been investing heavily in AI and machine learning to improve its language-learning courses, and has also been expanding its offerings beyond language learning, including a new mathematics course. Duolingo has raised over $183 million in funding to date.

• 🤖 Duolingo has cut 10% of its contractor workforce as the company embraces AI.
• 📈 The move is part of a broader shift towards automation and machine learning at the language-learning platform.
• 📚 The company has been investing heavily in AI and machine learning to improve its language-learning courses.
• 🧮 Duolingo has also been expanding its offerings beyond language learning, including a new mathematics course.
• 💰 The company has raised over $183 million in funding to date.

     Read more about it: Link

Quora’s Poe is a Go: AI Chat Bot Platform Secures $75M from a16z 🚀🤖👏

Quora, the questions and answers website, has raised $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) to power the growth of Poe, its AI chat platform. The funding will be used to pay creators of bots on the platform through Quora’s recently-launched creator monetization program. Quora is trying to develop its own subset of the creator economy based around AI chatbots. Poe aggregates a wide range of text and image AI models like ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, Claude 2, Stable Diffusion, Llama and others, which gives creators a huge playground of tools to access. Quora’s latest raise values the company at just $500 million, a steep decline from its previous raise.

• 💰 Quora has raised $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) to power the growth of Poe, its AI chat platform 📈
• 💻 The funding will be used to pay creators of bots on the platform through Quora’s recently-launched creator monetization program 💸
• 👥 Quora is trying to develop its own subset of the creator economy based around AI chatbots 🤝
• 🧑‍💻Poe aggregates a wide range of text and image AI models like ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, Claude 2, Stable Diffusion, Llama and others, which gives creators a huge playground of tools to access 🎨
• 📉 Quora’s latest raise values the company at just $500 million, a steep decline from its previous raise 💸

     Read about it here: Link

🏠🗺️ Samsung unveils smart home maps with cute AI characters at CES 2024 🤖👾

Samsung has recently announced new smart home features that include household maps with “AI characters”. The maps will show the location of smart devices in the home, and the AI characters will be able to interact with users and provide information. Samsung’s new features will also include a “smart mirror” that can display information such as weather, news, and calendar events. However, the company has not yet announced when these features will be available 

• 🏠 Samsung has announced new smart home features that include household maps with “AI characters” 🤖.
• 👥 The maps will show the location of smart devices in the home, and the AI characters will be able to interact with users and provide information 💬.
• 📰Samsung’s new features will also include a “smart mirror” that can display information such as weather, news, and calendar events 📅.
• 🤔 The company has not yet announced when these features will be available.

Read about it here: Link

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👻👻 Wild2Avatar: Avatar Behind Occlusions 👻👻

👉Stanford (+ hashtag#Panasonic) unveils Wild2Avatar: neural rendering for occluded in-the-wild mono-videos. Decoupling scenes in occlusion, human, and background.