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In Today's Blog:

• 💻 Devin: The AI Software Engineer Revolutionizing Coding! 🔧

• 🌐 AI’s Existential Threat: Urgent Call for Action! 🚨

• 🌟 AI’s New ‘Character Reference’ Tool: Crafting Consistent Cyber-Celebs! 🎨

• 🚀 Deepgram’s Aura: Revolutionizing Real-Time AI with Ultra-Fast, Lifelike Voices! 💬

💻 Devin: The AI Software Engineer Revolutionizing Coding! 🔧

Cognition, a US-based startup, has introduced Devin, an AI software engineer capable of transforming simple prompts into fully functioning websites or software programs. Backed by Founders Fund, Devin has set a new benchmark on the SWE-bench coding benchmark and has even passed engineering interviews and completed jobs on Upwork.

• 🤖 Devin is an AI that can write, debug, and deploy code, turning prompts into functioning websites or software.
• 🚀 US-based Cognition unveiled Devin, backed by Founders Fund, aiming to transform software engineering.
• 🏆 Devin topped the SWE-bench coding benchmark and passed engineering interviews from leading AI companies.
• ⚠️ Moneycontrol warns against individuals falsely soliciting funds in their name, urging them to report such cases.

     Read about it here: Link

🌐 AI’s Existential Threat: Urgent Call for Action! 🚨

The “Gladstone Action Plan,” is a proposal urging the US government to address national security risks posed by AI development. It suggests interim safeguards, capability enhancement, technical investment, formal safeguards, and international law updates to manage AI’s potential threats. 

• 🚨 The US is urged to address significant national security risks posed by AI, potentially an "extinction-level threat."
• 💣 Advanced AI and AGI could destabilize global security, similar to nuclear weapons, with their development pace suggesting imminent arrival.
• ⚠️ Safety practices within the AI industry, especially at leading companies, are a major concern, with a focus on “weaponization risk” and “loss of control.”
• 🛡️ Proposals for robust regulation include limiting AI model training power, forming a federal AI agency, and controlling AI chip manufacturing and export.

     Read more about it: Link

🌟 AI’s New ‘Character Reference’ Tool: Crafting Consistent Cyber-Celebs! 🎨

Midjourney’s new “character reference” feature for its AI image generator allows users to maintain consistency in the appearance of characters across different images. This feature is particularly effective for characters created by the AI itself. 

• 🖼️ Midjourney 6 AI introduces a “character reference” feature for consistent character depiction across images.
• 👤 Users can add URLs or upload images for the AI to generate content with consistent character appearances.
• 🤖 The feature works best with characters originally created by the AI, not real people’s photos.
• ⚖️ The tool raises ethical issues, such as potential for deepfakes and copyright infringement from using artists’ work without permission.

     Read about it here: Link

🚀 Deepgram’s Aura: Revolutionizing Real-Time AI with Ultra-Fast, Lifelike Voices! 💬

Deepgram, a voice recognition startup, has launched Aura, a new real-time text-to-speech API that offers realistic voice models with low-latency for developers. Aura aims to enable the creation of conversational AI agents for customer service and other interactive applications.

• 🚀 Deepgram has introduced Aura, a new real-time text-to-speech API that enables developers to create conversational AI agents.
• 💬 Aura features highly realistic voice models with low-latency, allowing for real-time, conversational interactions.
• 💸 The service is priced at $0.015 per 1,000 characters, which is slightly cheaper than Google’s WaveNet and Amazon’s Polly.
• 🎭 Aura offers around a dozen voice models, trained with a dataset created with voice actors for diverse and realistic outputs.

Read about it here: Link

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