The biggest updates to ChatGPT so far ⚡️, Meta's new headset and AIs 🤖, Spotify AI podcasts 🎙️, and much more!

#58

Sep 29, 2023

Hey there! Welcome back to Augmented Rarity 👽, your weekly source on emerging tech and future trends 📡.

Before we get into this week's selection, I'd like to say that this week feels almost like a Black Mirror episode, and I'm hyped and I hope you're hyped too!

🖼️ Today's cover: A room full of servers, because well, it’s all AI now.

Let’s begin! 👇

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Spotify’s AI podcast new feature will allow you to listen your fav podcasters in any language 🎙️. There are only 3 episodes available at the moment, so of course I had to listen to the Lex Friedman one, and as a native Spanish speaker I can tell you it's pretty well sourced! Youtube is also doing this and, well, almost all the big tech companies are investing in this, so deepfakes will be harder to detect.

But that's not all, Zuck and Lex had recorded their 3rd podcast episode together 🎙️, but this time they didn't meet in person, they met in Zuck's metaverse. And no, not cartoonish avatars, but those hyper-realistic avatars that Zuck showed a year ago. as end users we won't be able to get that level of detail because it requires complex 3D scanning, but Meta is working on something that we could just scan ourselves with our phones (this was also shown last year). There are a lot of 3D scanning apps on the market, but only when Meta gets his hands on it will it become mainstream.
Image: @lexfridman
Meta is also working with other celebrities the size of Paris Hilton, Mr Beast and Kendal Jenner to use their AI replicas as faces to bring AI to Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp. Instead of having a one-size-fits-all AI like ChatGPT or Bard, Meta is betting on personas so you can go back to each of them individually as your AI experts 🕵🏻‍♀️, because yes, we consumers are deep in the creator economy and that is genius. Isn't it best to have one AI oracle that knows everything? yes, but these will add personality to their answers. Aaaaaa, I'll definitely be talking about this on Sunday, because wth, Black Mirror vibes. They even have Instagram profiles!
Image: Meta
As if that wasn't mainstream enough, you'll soon be able to get AI stickers on Whatsapp 🖼️. Is it necessary? not at all, but how smart is it? we all use stickers on a daily basis. And that’s not it, AI image editing is also coming to Instagram 🎨. Meta is not only bringing the first mainstream MR headset to market, it is also ensuring that AI becomes even more mainstream than what OpenAI has achieved with ChatGPT, because yes, they have the platforms to do it. All those 'good morning' stickers will now be AI-generated lol
Image: Meta
Speaking of mainstream AIs, I’m sure you already know, but Chat GPT talks and listens now! 👄👂 If you are a paid user. I’m going to quote OpenAI’s description because it simulates those futuristic representations we all have in our heads of how we interact with technology:
“Snap a picture of a landmark while traveling and have a live conversation about what’s interesting about it. When you’re home, snap pictures of your fridge and pantry to figure out what’s for dinner (and ask follow up questions for a step by step recipe). After dinner, help your child with a math problem by taking a photo, circling the problem set, and having it share hints with both of you.”

But not only that, ChatGPT will finally have access to real-time information 🕸️, as it had before. You see, we humans are the best and the worst at the same time, so they had to restrict the use of their platform to ensure a safer space. And that was Bard's (Google's AI experiment) main value proposition against ChatGPT, but now that OpenAI has access to everything (thanks to its collaboration with Microsoft, which owns Bing, the search engine I've never downloaded), magic happens. And no, this won't be limited to paid users, it will eventually be rolled out to free users too.
I was wondering if keeping this one out because I don’t think it’s relevant anymore, but the Tesla bot can now stretch and sort objects 🧩. And no, it’s not a step back, this robot was never able to dance, it was a paid actor, so well done this time.
Image: Tesla

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🥽 Extended Reality

Quest3 is finally here 🥽! The best thing? The price, $3000 less than Apple's Vision Pro. Was I going to buy the Vision Pro? Yes. Will I buy the Quest 3 instead? Yes. Do I need it? No. But as Mark said, the Quest 3 is the first mainstream MR headset, 40% thinner, more comfortable and fully wireless, no hanging battery as Apple tried to justify to make it lighter. Yes Apple, I see your point, but if you want a lighter headset maybe use lighter materials… Back to the Quest 3, I’m hyped because of that improved MR experience they promoted, like mapping your space and games and apps interacting with objects in your physical space, nothing revolutionary, but I want to experience it 💅. Anyway, here’s the presentation of the Quest3 ICYMI.
And in the final update of the day, Meta has released its second generation of smart glasses in partnership with Rayban 👓. The biggest feature and differentiator from other smart glasses on the market is that these are AI-powered by those cool new AIs we've been talking about. I didn't think I'd get too excited about them as they haven't really taken off in Spain yet, but I'm asking them for Christmas 🎅

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And that's it for today! Hope you enjoyed the picks 🤓.

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See you on Sunday with an essay on the deepfake era 👀

Best,
Martina