🥯 Today on Bagel Bots:

• 🤯 Apple Intelligence Has Arrived

• ⚡️ Fresh tech of the day - Google Goes AI Iron Man With Project Jarvis

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• 🧠 Today’s Tip: How Perplexity AI Helped Me Vote in the Election

• 🤔 Can you guess which image is real and which one is AI? Go vote!

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

I typically write our Tuesday newsletter on Sunday. Before this goes out, I am editing to pay a tribute to my best friend, Baxter. My wife and I said goodbye to Baxter on Monday, and I must admit, this is the hardest thing I have ever gone through. The loss of this dog, who was my soul dog, is weighing very heavy. I know it’s not AI-related, but he was more important than everything else.

One Big Story: Apple Intelligence Has Arrived

Apple just released a new suite of AI tools called Apple Intelligence, available today with iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1. This isn't your typical feature update—it's Apple leveraging its silicon to bring personalized intelligence directly to your iPhone, iPad, and Mac while keeping your privacy front and center.

Key Takeaways:

• Writing Tools Everywhere: Now, you can refine, proofread, and rewrite your text anywhere on your device. You got a message you want to sound more professional? Apple Intelligence lets you pick the tone.

• Siri Gets Smarter: Siri has made a giant leap. It can now better understand you, keep track of what you're saying, and feel a lot more like a human conversation. You can even switch from typing to voice seamlessly.

• Photos Clean Up on Aisle 3: If a photobomber messes up that perfect shot, the new Clean Up feature will zap it out like magic. Plus, you can search photos and videos by simply describing what's in them—like "my dog wearing sunglasses."

My Take: Apple's push into AI is classic Apple—big on privacy and seamless integration and designed to work. Some features feel like catch-up moves, and Siri's improvements still face stiff competition. But if history is any guide, Apple will refine and eventually excel, as they always do.

🔗 Get more information on Apple’s AI here.

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Cool Tech: Google Goes AI Iron Man With Project Jarvis

At I/O 2024, Google showed off Gemini 2.0, Project Jarvis. It’s an AI assistant coming to Chrome in December, and it’s supposed to help with research, booking flights, and buying things—all right there in your browser.

Key Takeaways:

• AI for Everyday Stuff: It’s like having a little helper who can plan, reason, and handle all those annoying online chores for you.

• How It Works: Jarvis takes screenshots of what’s on your screen, figures out what’s happening, and then clicks or types for you. It’s still cloud-based and slow, but it’s getting there.

• Made for You and Me: Unlike enterprise tools, Jarvis is aimed at regular users. It's just trying to make our web experience smoother and more hands-off.

🔗 Get more information on Jarvis here.

Latest News

🔗 Hospitals use a transcription tool powered by a hallucination-prone OpenAI model

My take: It’s easy for people (especially me) to trust AI blindly. This is a great reminder to double-check the outputs.

🔗 Coinbase introduces 'Based Agent' for creating AI agents in 3 minutes

My take: We aren’t far away from all types of companies offering AI agent creation to help with tasks. And then what will the future of work look like?

🔗 Perplexity says it’s now serving 100M search queries a week

My take: I replaced Google Search with Perplexity as my primary search engine, and I highly recommend you try it out. It’s truly incredible.

🔗 Robert Downey Jr. Refuses to Let Hollywood Create His AI Digital Replica: ‘I Intend to Sue All Future Executives’ Who Recreate My Likeness

My take: I believe many artists will sell their AI likeness for a lot of money, and others will be very against it. Both options are okay so long as the artist has a say.

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.

• 🔗 Loomos - Transform raw screen recordings into studio-quality videos in single click

• 🔗 Guidejar - Simplify complex processes with interactive, easy-to-follow, AI-powered guides and demos

• 🔗 Moonbeam - Moonbeam is the only AI writing assistant specifically trained to help you write essays, stories, articles, blogs, and other long form content

• 🔗 GhostContent - Turn One Video into a Week of Viral Content

• 🔗 Huru - The #1 AI-Powered Video Interview Prep App

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

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Today’s Tip: How Perplexity AI Helped Me Vote in the Election

As mentioned above, I replaced Google with Perplexity as my primary search engine. Instead of maps, reviews, shopping links, ads, and links—it gives me direct answers to my questions and cites them in the answer. Plus, depending on how you word questions, it gives you the information and a ChatGPT-like response.

When my wife and I were voting, we noticed all of the props on the ballot were worded to confuse voters. Perplexity solved this for us instantly when we asked questions like, “Explain the difference between a "Yes" and a "No" vote on Prop 2 in Orange County, CA.”

Pro tip: you can ask follow-up questions as well. I highly recommend it!

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🤔 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. My only goal is to choose such good photos that the majority of votes are wrong.

Last edition’s results (65% were wrong):

Did you vote in the poll from the 27th? This was another tough one, and the bottom image is real. Go back and see the photos here.

Those who thought the top was real said this:

• “The motion trail is going different directions on different objects in the bottom photo.”

• “The colors in the bottom image do not appear to be natural.”

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