Welcome back everyone to another AI Insights newsletter by NotCentralised. We explore the interesting things we’ve been finding on the world of AI this past week and synthesise it for the things we think you should care about.
If you’re interested in talking with us about how to get the best out of AI for your work then feel free to get in touch with us either on this contact form or email.
Fancy a job as the Head of AI?
Another week in the world of AI and we start off with the hottest new role in the jobs market, “Head of AI”. This Vice article dives into it in more detail and whilst there might be some hype driving this, we think there is certainly an opportunity here for folks in this role to set the agenda of how this sort of role helps their organisations understand AI and the new workflow efficiencies that come from this. Read more here.
New framework for AI in government
The Australian Framework for AI in Government is out and in this post from Aurelie Jacquet, you can learn more about it here.
Sam Burretts also had a take on this you can check out here.
Of course we had to run it through SIKE to show a few things on what we could do to analyse the transcripts. See here.
SIKE and the US Presidential debate
Speaking of SIKE, we decided to get wifi on a long flight to Perth last week and it happened to coincide with the 1st US Presidential debate. So of course, after it finished, we had to see what SIKE would say about it. From a quick summary to some questions that a political ecnomist might ask, we dived in, Check out the animations. See more here.
SIKE Examples in the User Guide
Also in the world of SIKE, if you didn’t already know, we have a User Guide here but it also acts as a repository for use cases and prompts you can follow along (some with data you can download to try out the examples we’re calling SIKEtoso – like Microsoft’s Contoso). Check it out here.
Build Club’s Y24 Cohort
Check out the Y24 cohort of Build Club who we saw present recently at their demo day. See more here.
More realistic AI avatars
Hyper realistic AI avatars are here with Synthesia. This sort of innovation makes it easier to clone yourself and do more with video content. Imagine being able to have your face of the company be able to not just be in one country but in many, where traditional language barriers will come down when you couple this with voice to text like Eleven Labs
AI as the end of creatives?
According to OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati, creators are under threat when it comes to AI. She claims that there are jobs creators do that shouldn’t have been there in the first place. That obviously didn’t go down well (as per the comments on this post). See more here.
Speaking of creativity, great to see Toys R Us adopt AI for their latest nostalgic video. See the article here.
You can watch it here too
The hare and tortoise race of AI?
OpenAI has delayed it’s new voice capabilities again as highlighted in this new SVIC podcast clip
At the same time, we’re seeing this new Build with Claude contest showcasing creativity of using the Anthropic API where 3x winners get $10k of Anthropic credits
What’s ironic here is that OpenAI would normally have been seen as the one that releases products fast and Anthropic as the one that’s been synonymous with a slow and steady pace given their inkling more towards AI safety. This isn’t just about the delay to the new voice features but also to Sora, OpenAI’s video model which was also beat to market by Luma and Runway recently. When it comes to getting a product to market that actually isn’t just hype and stories that you cannot try, Anthropic (or the tortoise) wins in this case.
SB147 and the killing of open source models?
Apparently there’s a bill in the US Senate set out to kill open-source models? Here’s more details about bill SB147. See more on LinkedIn.
Figma + AI
If you use Figma, it’s now been AI-fied and even easier to use. See the tweet here.
Star Wars + AI
Check out this fun clip which is a hyper shortened version of Star Wars. You can see the video on this Ethan Mollick LinkedIn post.
SIKE in the air?
We’ll leave you with this showing that SIKE works fine even on plane wifi. This is me using SIKE whilst 30,000 feet up in the air. Worked fine and it’s during this 4.5 hour trip that I was watching and analysing the US Presidential debate shown earlier in this newsletter. See the original post here.
Get in touch
Stay tuned for more insights from us next week and if you’re interested in SIKE (our privacy focused AI tool), then you can check out more on what it’s about here.
If you’re interested in learning more, reach out to Arturo Rodriguez or 📈 Mark Monfort here and get in touch with us here or on email at we@notcentralised.com.
