Spotify brings AI DJ to life, Text-to-Figma Designs, Prepare for your next interview with AI!

Every week I fear running out of things to write about but as soon as I start digging through my emails from readers and startups, and start looking through my bookmarks, those fears disappear! I might run out of stuff to write about someday, but I'm sure its not happening anytime soon! 💯 

Ready to see the exciting new AI-powered magical products this week?!

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ThisWeek in AI - Five

1) Spotify DJ: Your own personal AI-powered DJ that has access to your music feed and know your taste in your music, perhaps even better than you do. This DJ adds commentary around tracks and artists as it plays the music you’ll like. I’ve used it for a couple of hours today, and I have to say it’s a pretty great experience! Job well done, Spotify!

2) Usegalileo AI: This is a simple AI-powered Text-to-UI service generating designs in seconds that are editable in Figma. So, just type in whatever you want your screen to look like and have a design instantly available.

3) Koolio AI: Create professional sounding podcast recordings with Koolio. It’s simple, upload your recording and use one of many editing features to clean the audio, get rid of fillers, add sound-fx and much more.

Watch a quick demo here

4) Plask AI: Plex makes it really easy to extract motion from any video and turn into animation that can be applied to digital characters. It supports professional file formats including GLB, FBX, BVH, and more.

5) Huru AI: This service can come in really handy for people looking for jobs but need help with preparing for interviews. Feed in the job profile page from Indeed, LinkedIn or one of the other compatible job sites and AI will prepare a personalized list of interview questions instantly. As you are answering these questions, it’ll analyze the video feed and give you feedback about your movements and speech to help you improve and get your dream job 😍 

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ThisWeek in AI - Art

I covered the newly released features from RunwayML in one of my recent newsletters. This is how one of the content creators is putting them to use. Super fun!

ThisWeek in AI - Interesting Reads

• AI-created images lose U.S. copyrights in test for new technology - The U.S. Copyright Office has decided that the images in the graphic novel "Zarya of the Dawn" created using the artificial intelligence system Midjourney are not eligible for copyright protection. The author of the book, Kris Kashtanova, is entitled to copyright for the written text and the arrangement of elements, but not the AI-generated images. The decision is one of the first by a U.S. court or agency on the scope of copyright protection for works created with AI. The Copyright Office said that it would reissue the novel's registration to omit the AI-generated images. The office's letter stated that Midjourney's output was "different for copyright purposes than other tools used by artists."

• Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers - Law firm Allen & Overy has partnered with OpenAI to use the generative AI tool Harvey, which uses large datasets to generate natural text. The platform, which relies heavily on standardized documents and precedents, is being used for basic tasks such as answering simple legal questions, drafting documents, and first passes at client messages. Allen & Overy's 3,500 lawyers across 43 offices have asked Harvey 40,000 queries, with one in four using it daily and 80% once a month or more. While automation of legal document generation has been a growth area for decades, AI's "hallucinations" or making things up could be costly, and privacy laws could limit usage. However, law firms can make use of AI while keeping client data safe and secure, improving efficiency and productivity, according to David Wakeling, head of Allen & Overy's markets innovation group.

• Why democracy belongs in artificial intelligence - Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only revolutionizing the way lawyers work, but is also shaping public policy across different domains, from policing to finance and social media companies. In a Wired op-ed, Harvard research fellow Josh Simons argues that building predictive tools and regulating them should be done through an underlying idea of the flourishing of democracy, which entails protecting political equality, a healthy public sphere, and ensuring public infrastructure is shaped by democratic structures. Simons adds that every choice made by computer scientists when building data-driven systems, such as defining target variables to predict, constructing and labeling datasets, and developing algorithms and training models, implicates moral values and political choices.

• Healthcare May Be The Ultimate Proving Ground For Artificial Intelligence - The healthcare industry may be the proving ground for artificial intelligence (AI) to demonstrate its worth in terms of introducing greater productivity and responsiveness into a sector burdened by financial squeezes, paperwork and regulations, while improving outcomes in life-or-death decisions. Wider adoption of AI could lead to savings of 5% to 10% in US healthcare spending, which is roughly $200 billion to $360 billion annually in 2019 dollars, according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. AI may also deliver non-financial benefits "such as improved healthcare quality, increased access, better patient experience, and greater clinician satisfaction". The healthcare industry is "quickly recognizing the inherent advantages of using AI to study health trends and provide better, value-based care to patients".

• Most Americans uncomfortable with artificial intelligence in healthcare, survey says - A new survey by Pew Research Center found that 60% of Americans are "uncomfortable" with artificial intelligence (AI) being used in their healthcare. Respondents were concerned about losing personal connections with healthcare providers and compromised security of health records. However, the survey did show that 40% of Americans believed AI could reduce mistakes made by providers, and 51% believed AI could eliminate problems with bias and unfair treatment. The survey also found that younger adults, men, and those with higher levels of education are more open to the idea of using AI in their healthcare than others. AI has been used in medical studies and can diagnose diseases, predict health risks, and automate healthcare tasks.

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