AI can now copy handwriting and deceive humans

Hey AI Geniuses,

What's cooking in the AI and SaaS world this week?

Interestingly, AI now has the capability to mimic your handwriting and even deceive humans when instructed – quite alarming, don't you think?

Meanwhile, Amazon is experimenting with its own AI to respond to shoppers' inquiries. Microsoft has introduced Copilot Pro for individual users, and Sam Altman envisions GPT-5 as being highly personalized, offering answers tailored to users' values and preferences.

As always, we've reviewed five exciting new AI tools: a video editor, an automated branding and positioning tool, a privacy-focused AI assistant, a creative alternative to GIFs, and an app designed for generating AI product photos.

We've also included three popular YouTube videos aimed at enhancing your productivity, enabling you to achieve more in less time.

Let's dive right in!

INTERESTING AI ARTICLES OF THE WEEK 📰

This week, we present a curated selection of five important AI articles, featuring news from top Anthropic, Amazon, and Microsoft.

• New study by Anthropic shows AI models can learn to deceive humans
  A new study by Anthropic, a prominent AI startup, reveals that AI models can be trained to deceive humans, as demonstrated by their ability to undertake malicious tasks such as injecting exploits into secure computer code. The study involved fine-tuning existing generative AI models, like OpenAI's GPT 4, by exposing them to contrasting sets of examples, one showcasing desired behavior and the other delving into deception.

• Amazon launches generative AI tool to answer shoppers’ questions
  Amazon has launched a generative AI tool to answer shoppers' questions about specific products. The tool, integrated into the Amazon mobile app, uses generative AI to provide quick and summarized responses to user inquiries. The AI tool is primarily aimed at improving the shopping experience by helping customers get answers to commonly asked product questions, thus streamlining the information search process for shoppers

• Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to the rest of us
  Microsoft has launched Copilot Pro, a $20 monthly subscription that provides access to AI-powered features inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as priority access to the latest OpenAI models and the ability to build your own Copilot GPT. Copilot Pro is available to both Microsoft 365 Personal or Home subscribers and non-subscribers on the web, in Windows or Mac apps, and on mobile devices.

• AI can now copy your handwriting. We're concerned.
  Researchers at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi have developed an AI tool that can closely copy a person's handwriting. The model needs just a few paragraphs of writing to be trained, and people cannot distinguish the mimicked handwriting from the actual handwriting. The tool is primarily focused on mimicking English writing and is not yet available to the public. The researchers were granted a patent for the tool and acknowledged the potential for forgery and other nefarious uses.

• Exclusive: Altman says ChatGPT will have to evolve in “uncomfortable” ways
  OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman said in an exclusive interview with Axios that the company's next big model, likely to be called GPT-5, "will be able to do a lot, lot more" than the existing models can. Altman believes that future AI products will need to allow "quite a lot of individual customization" and "that's going to make a lot of people uncomfortable," because AI will give different answers for different users, based on their values and preferences and possibly on what country they reside in.

5 EXCITING NEW SAAS & AI TOOLS 🛠️🤖

We’ve handpicked five game-changing tools that promise to refine your workflow and ignite your creativity.

• Fliz AI - Fliz AI is an AI-powered video creator that automates the process of generating high-quality videos to increase sales. With Fliz, users can simply paste in a URL and let the software work its magic, retrieving essential information from the page and generating a video in just a few seconds. Fliz offers three video styles to suit all needs and is compatible with all e-commerce solutions.

• Branding5 - This powerful tool allows users to quickly submit their company’s name, description, and unique selling proposition, and then select from twelve classic branding archetypes to reflect their brand’s personality. The system analyzes the responses to pinpoint the brand’s ideal archetype and provides a tailored report with brand positioning, identity tools, and creative strategies.

• CamoCopy - CamoCopy is an AI assistant that offers essential and powerful features, similar to ChatGPT, but with a strong commitment to privacy. It allows users to enjoy instant responses with internet access and sources, create ultra-realistic images, illustrations, and more, all while ensuring that their data is secure.

• LottieFiles - This versatile platform allows users to create, test, and optimize Lottie animations with ease. With features like the Adobe After Effects plugin, browser-based Lottie Creator, and Figma integration, it simplifies the animation creation process and facilitates seamless collaboration for design teams.

• ProductAI - ProductAI is a cutting-edge AI-powered platform that revolutionizes product photography. It offers users the ability to generate professional commercial packshot photos with unlimited styles, simply by uploading a photo of their product. The platform’s state-of-the-art AI model processes the images, eliminating the need for prompting, and delivers AI-generated product photos directly to the user’s inbox.

MUST WATCH PRODUCTIVITY VIDEOS OF THE WEEK 🍿🎦

• My $100K Productivity System - Work Less. Do More.
  In this video, you will learn about a productivity system that helped the Ross Harkness (the author) go from working 12 hours a day and making no progress on his business to working less than 4 hours a day and making well over $100,000 in 2023. His productivity system is based on the idea that you can achieve your goals by working less and doing more of the right things. He provides a number of practical tips and strategies that you can use to implement this system in your own life.

• 5 Productivity Apps to Look Out for in 2024
  In this video, Demetri Panici, a productivity coach, discusses 5 productivity apps that he is excited about for 2024. He gives the list of 5 apps that he believes are worth using to reach your goals. He also provides a brief description of each app and explains what he likes about them.

• Free And Unbeatable: Discover The Ultimate Productivity Tool!
  In this video, Carl Pullein discusses how to use your calendar to be more productive. He argues that most people don't use their calendars effectively, and that this is why they are often overwhelmed and unproductive. He suggests that you should use your calendar to schedule time for focused work, communication, and admin tasks. He also emphasizes the importance of saying no to requests that will overload your schedule.

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