Today on Bagel Bots:

• 🤯 The United States is investing even more in artificial intelligence

• ⚡️ Fresh tech of the day - Adobe Firefly Text-To-Video

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• 🧠 Today’s Tip: How AI Helped Me Make a Perfect Dinner

(Read time: five minutes) - Fun fact: I never change this.

The Biden-Harris Administration is taking bold steps to ensure the United States remains at the forefront of AI innovation. In a recent White House roundtable, top officials met with leaders from AI companies, hyperscalers, datacenter operators, and utility companies to discuss strategies for developing large-scale AI infrastructure in the US.

Key Takeaways:

• The focus is on meeting clean energy, permitting, and workforce requirements for AI datacenters.

• The initiative aims to create good-paying jobs and keep energy costs low for consumers.

• A new Task Force on AI Datacenter Infrastructure will coordinate policy across government agencies.

New Actions Announced:

1. Scaled-up technical assistance for datacenter permitting at federal, state, and local levels.

2. Department of Energy is creating an AI data center engagement team to support development.

3. Exploring opportunities to repurpose closed coal sites for datacenter development.

4. US Army Corps of Engineers to expedite construction of eligible AI datacenters.

Our Take: This push for AI infrastructure development in the US is a significant move to maintain technological leadership. Seeing the focus on clean energy and job creation alongside AI advancement is encouraging. However, the success of these initiatives will depend on effective collaboration between the government and private sector and overcoming potential regulatory hurdles.

🔗 Learn more about these developments here.

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Cool Tech: Adobe Firefly Text-To-Video

Adobe is set to revolutionize video creation with its upcoming Firefly-powered AI tools. The software giant recently previewed features that allow users to generate video clips from text descriptions or still images, with options to adjust camera angles and motion.

Key highlights:

• Text-to-video and image-to-video generation (limited to 5 seconds)

• "Generative Extend" feature for Premiere Pro to lengthen existing footage

• Adobe claims Firefly is "commercially safe," trained on licensed content

• Initial release as a standalone beta app, with future Creative Cloud integration

Our Take: Adobe's entry into AI-generated video could be a game-changer for content creators. The promise of "commercially safe" content may alleviate copyright concerns, but the 5-second limit could be restrictive. As these tools evolve, they will reshape video production workflows and democratize filmmaking.

🔗 Learn more about this new technology here.

Latest News

🔗 Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007

My take: My unpopular opinion is that anything and everything you post online is considered public, and you should expect that it’s being used for data, advertising, and training AI.

🔗 OpenAI o1 Model Warning Issued by Scientist: 'Particularly Dangerous'

My take: As AI models become more sophisticated, we’ll need to worry more and more about their capabilities and, of course, how smart we let them get on their own.

🔗 Driverless semis could be months away

My take: Oddly enough, I have long felt that AI and automation would affect many blue- and white-collar jobs. Truck drivers felt pretty safe, in my estimation, but here we are.

🔗 Meet Ozomo, an AI-powered robot that cleans skyscraper windows

My take: Why is this so important? In New York City alone, it’s estimated that one out of every 200 window cleaners dies yearly. Up to 30 serious injuries occur annually among window cleaners in the UK.

Fresh Apps to Play With

Are you looking to automate your work or life? Want to play with excellent new AI tools? Every post has five new AI apps for you to try for yourself.

• 🔗 Hypertxt - Hypertxt is an AI-powered workflow for generating accurate, in-depth articles. Gather research from Reddit, Quora, Wikipedia, or any other source, and use it to create engaging content in minutes

• 🔗 Fireflies.ai - Helps your team transcribe, summarize, search, and analyze voice conversations

• 🔗 ClipAnything - Search for any moment in any video based on visuals, audio, and sentiment. All thanks to the first-ever multimodal AI video clipping model

• 🔗 Earkick - Measure and improve your mental health in real-time with your personal AI chatbot

• 🔗 timeMaster - Experience a smarter way to manage your time, with privacy-first tracking and insightful analytics that empower you to achieve more every day

Check out these AI apps, and let me know what you think. You can reply to this email or tweet me directly.

Today’s Tip: How AI Helped Me Make a Perfect Dinner

My wife and I are planning a trip to Rome in November. We have been watching social media videos of Italian food and decided we wanted to make a dish. Instead of boxed pasta, I said, “We should find somewhere to buy freshly made pasta.” I could Google it, but I would be combing through ads, maps, and wrong answers. So I opened Perplexity and searched, “Where can I buy fresh pasta to cook near Newport Beach, CA?”

It gave me a few answers, but the first one was absolutely correct.

I had never been to Bristol Farms, but I live close. This was early on Sunday, so I wanted to know when they opened. I was able to ask this follow-up question in the same chat with Perplexity.

Perfect. They opened early. Now, we needed to know what to buy to make the perfect linguine and clams.

We got the right ingredients and made it exactly as the instructions said. Dinner came out amazing, but it’s not our best plating work.

Perplexity > Google

🤔 Which image is real?

One of these images is real, and one was created with AI. Vote for which one you think is real, and tell us why you voted that way.

Last edition’s results (52% were correct):

Did you vote in the poll from the 14th? The winner was the top image!

“looks too perfect and aligned.”

“The light refraction is consistent, makes the image for me real.”

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