🥯 Today on Bagel Bots:

• 🤯 AI-Powered Weather Forecasts That Actually Get It Right

• ⚡️ Fresh tech of the day - Clone Alpha is Your Futuristic Housemate

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• 🧠 Reframe Life’s Misses with This AI-Powered Prompt

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

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One Big Story: AI-Powered Weather Forecasts That Actually Get It Right

Ever feel like weather forecasts could do better, especially with all the wild weather lately? Enter GenCast, Google’s new AI model that predicts weather with jaw-dropping accuracy—up to 15 days ahead. It doesn’t just guess; it runs 50+ scenarios to give us the full picture, making it a significant upgrade from traditional systems. As the weather gets more extreme on this planet, technology will be crucial in saving lives.

The Highlights:

• Smarter and faster: GenCast crunches forecasts in just 8 minutes using a single Google Cloud TPU. Traditional models? They take hours on supercomputers.

• Why it matters: It accurately predicts extreme weather events, such as cyclones or heat waves, helping us prepare better and earlier.

• Open for all: Google open-sourced it, meaning researchers, governments, and even renewable energy companies can use it to plan smarter.

My Take: This feels like a glimpse of the future. Better forecasts mean saved lives, more innovative energy use, and fewer surprises. I love that it’s open to the public—a win for collaboration and progress. Imagine planning your week with forecasts that are actually right. Now, that’s the kind of tech I’m here for.

🔗 Learn more here.

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RAG in just a few lines of code? We’ve launched a predefined RAG tool on our developer platform, making it easy to bring your data into a Knowledge Graph and interact with it with AI. With a single API call, writer LLMs will intelligently call the RAG tool to chat with your data.

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Cool Tech: Clone Alpha is Your Futuristic Housemate

The limited-edition Clone Alpha is here—only 279 units available, making it as exclusive as it is impressive. This musculoskeletal android isn’t just a novelty; it’s a fully interactive home assistant with an incredible range of pre-installed skills. Clone Alpha is built to blend functionality with personality, from vacuuming your floors and folding laundry to whipping up sandwiches and cracking witty jokes.

Even cooler? It comes with the Telekinesis training platform, allowing you to teach it entirely new skills. It’s more than a robot; it’s a customizable, evolving partner for your home. Get ready to live like it’s the future!

🔗 The future of in-home robotics is closer than you think. I'm sad I didn’t get one for my birthday today, but you can pre-order yours here.

Interesting News

🎙️  Spotify's 2024 Wrapped feature now includes a personalized AI-generated podcast that discusses your listening habits. The podcast utilizes Google's NotebookLM to create a conversational summary. This addition aims to give users a unique and engaging overview of their music preferences over the past year.

🏭️ Meta is investing $10 billion to build its largest AI data center in northeast Louisiana, aiming to bolster its AI capabilities and stimulate local economic growth. Simultaneously, Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, is expanding its supercomputer facility in Memphis, Tennessee, reflecting the tech industry's escalating demand for AI infrastructure.

✉️ Researchers at Kaiserslautern University have developed a method that combines few-shot learning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using open-source language models to detect phishing emails with up to 96% accuracy. In testing, the Llama 3.1 70B model achieved the highest accuracy at 96.18%, closely followed by the smaller Gemma2 9B model at 95%.

💰️ AMP Robotics has secured $91 million in Series D funding to accelerate the deployment of its AI-powered AMP ONE system, which enhances the sorting of municipal solid waste. This investment aims to modernize recycling infrastructure, making waste management more efficient and sustainable.

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.

🔗 Apollo - Join over 3 million people using Apollo.io to find warm leads, run multi-channel outreach campaigns, and track performance

🔗 Dazzle - Your AI co-pilot for winning PR campaigns

🔗 Thoughtly - Deploy your fully-integrated AI call center starting at just 9 cents per minute

🔗 Pollo - Unbounded AI Video Generator

🔗 Bluecast - Tap into limitless inspiration, generate compelling posts with AI, and efficiently plan your LinkedIn content

🔗 Hypelist - ‎Discover personalized recommendations powered by AI, tailored to your unique taste

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: Reframe Life’s Misses with This AI-Powered Prompt

The other day, I was chatting with a friend about a challenging personal situation he’d recently gone through. He felt he had made some missteps and played a bigger role in the outcome than he initially realized. It reminded me of a practice we use at my company: when something goes wrong, we conduct a post-mortem. It’s a process borrowed from the medical world, where you analyze what happened, identify mistakes, and develop strategies to avoid similar outcomes in the future.

Inspired by that, we created a prompt you can use to reflect on any situation—yes, even personal ones. Whether it’s about a conversation that didn’t go as planned or a decision you regret, taking the time to reflect can help you gain clarity and grow from the experience.

Give it a try, and remember: the more context you provide, the better your insights will be.

I want to reflect on a personal situation that did not go well. Please help me analyze it using the following structure:

Context and Overview:

The situation: [Briefly describe what happened.]
The intended outcome: [What did I want or expect to happen?]

Emotional Check-In:

How I feel about it: [List your emotions.]
Why I feel this way: [Explain the root cause of your emotions.]

Analysis:

What went well: [Identify anything positive, even if it’s small.]
What didn’t go well: [List the specific things that didn’t work or contributed to the issue.]
What was within my control: [Focus on your own actions, decisions, or lack thereof.]
What was out of my control: [Acknowledge external factors or situations you couldn’t influence.]

Key Takeaways:

What I learned: [Highlight lessons or realizations from this experience.]
Patterns in my behavior: [Are there any recurring tendencies or habits influencing these outcomes?]

Moving Forward:

What I’ll do differently next time: [Describe actions, strategies, or mindsets you’ll adopt.]
Skills or resources I need: [What tools, knowledge, or support would help in the future?]
How I can let go of what I can’t change: [Write a plan or affirmation to release feelings of guilt or frustration over things outside your control.]

Closing Reflection:

One thing I’m proud of: [Find something positive about yourself or your effort.]
One thing I can do to feel better now: [List a self-care action or positive thought.]

Please use this structure to guide me through the reflection process and provide thoughtful, actionable responses based on the details I provide.

Are you interested in getting a customized version of the prompt above? Do you have a prompt you want created? Email us at [email protected].

🤔 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.

The last edition’s results—58% were correct!

WOW! Did you vote in the poll from December 5th? The bottom image was real, and it sounds like everyone knew it! Go back and see the photos here.

Even though only 58% guessed the bottom image, many people gave their thoughts on this one, and they were awesome comments:

• “At first glance I thought of choosing the top one but upon further inspection, there's a lot going on in the top one. What's going on with her hands? And the peoples' faces in the background are distorted.”

• “The faces of people in the background in the top image are clearly messy.”

• “the faces of the top two girls have this AI look about them, slightly fuzzy but skin way too perfect”

• “I don't know if that is an ID that is merging into the shirt in the top image, but it looks like an AI mess up”

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