Tesla's vision of the future

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Elon Musk's latest spectacle had it all: Autonomous cars, humanoid bartenders, and flashy drone arrays. But as the curtain falls on Tesla's “We, Robot” event, the tech world is divided on whether we witnessed a preview of tomorrow or just an elaborate illusion.

Today’s Insights

• Today in AI: Predictions, logic quizzes, and AI hunters

• Tutorial: How to add motion to videos with AI

• Tesla’s Cybercab event divides AI community

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Tesla’s next prototype?

TODAY IN AI

1. Anthropic CEO gives a glimpse into the future: Dario Amodei, CEO of OpenAI rival Anthropic, dropped an essay last week predicting how AI will change the world. Predictions include AI smarter than Nobel prize winners by 2026, cures for almost all diseases, increased human lifespans, and more.

2. Apple tests whether LLMs can really think for themselves: Is OpenAI o1 really the first LLM with “reasoning” capabilities? A new Apple study suggests models can’t truly solve problems on their own quite yet. The researchers found that changing just a single word or number in a prompt could change responses by up to 10%, proving that LLMs still generate their answers based on patterns in training data — rather than logic alone.

3. Wikipedia’s AI hunters: Wikipedia’s moderators have a hard enough time editing the site’s 63 million articles. Now, AI has added a new wrinkle. One recent entry described an Ottoman fortress that appears to be entirely made up. A volunteer group called the WikiProject AI Cleanup is banding together to take these fictional entries offline. They rely on their intuition since AI detection software is notoriously unreliable.

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THE AI ACADEMY

How to use Kling AI's video motion brush

• Go to Kling AI’s website and sign up to get credits

• Select image to video and upload your image

• Now click on Motion Brush in the menu bar.

• In the motion brush window, select the object to which you want to add motion and then define the path by using the track option.

For this example, I selected the green part of the image and set its motion to the right. And for the purple area, I set the motion to the left.

• Click on confirm and wait for a few seconds.

• You will get your image converted into a video with customized motions.

FROM THE FRONTIER

Tesla’s Cybercab event divides the tech world

Was Tesla’s flashy “We, Robot” event a rare glimpse into the future — or just an elaborate sleight of hand? That depends on who you ask. 

Elon Musk’s primetime showcase was heavy on theatrics: 

• Guests rode self-driving Cybercab prototypes through LA’s Warner Bros movie lot

• A sci-fi-inspired Robovan rolled onto the stage as aerial drones lit up the sky

• A fleet of Optimus humanoid robots poured drinks and chatted with attendees

But some in the AI community are urging caution: They say Musk gets credit for envisioning what an AI-powered world might look like in a decade or two, but he didn’t quite explain how to get there. We learned that the Cybercab will cost less than $30,000 — and that production will begin no later than 2027. But otherwise, the presentation was relatively light on details. Safety experts, meanwhile, are calling for more transparency and testing before driverless cars become a part of our daily lives.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🩺 Doctor’s Orders: Prominent entrepreneur Elad Gil is co-leading a $250M funding round for Abridge, a startup that builds AI tools to help doctors with note-taking and other administrative tasks.

🖥️ DIY AI: Intel announced a new family of AI processors that enthusiasts can purchase and install in their home computers starting on Oct. 24.

📚 Information Overload: DeepMind is experimenting with a new benchmark that suggests LLMs are getting more accurate overall — but still struggle when analyzing large amounts of data at once.

🦸 Unsung Hero: Nvidia is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its first-ever GPU. When the GeForce 256 was released in 1999, few would have guessed that the processor — known then by only a small group of gamers — would one day help jumpstart the AI revolution.

🏋️ Always On: The popular fitness tracking app Strava released a new AI coach that helps users reach their workout goals. One fitness buff said the app even offered words of encouragement as he raced to the hospital after a biking accident.

PRODUCTIVITY

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

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AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Where might Tesla go next?

Midjourney Prompt: Tesla [insert mode of transportation here] --ar 3:4 --v 6.1

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