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🔓 Friday’s AI Report:

1. 🥳 OpenAI’s AI agent finally arrives

2. 🗣️ In partnership with LeadTalk

3. ♟️ Perplexity’s competitive AI move

4. 👻 Anthropic’s new feature stops hallucinations?

5. ✔️ In partnership with EleventhAI

6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools

7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications

8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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🥳 OpenAI’s AI agent finally arrives

🚨 Our Report — After weeks of mounting speculation, OpenAI has finally announced its AI agent, Operator (which can take control of a web browser and perform multi-step tasks, independently), as a research preview for US-based ChatGPT Pro users, with plans to “integrate these capabilities into ChatGPT” and release it to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users in other countries “soon” (although CEO, Sam Altman, has confirmed that “Europe will, unfortunately, take a while”).

🔓 Key Points:

• Operator can “self-correct” (passing it to the user if it gets stuck), “see” via screenshots and interact (ie. click, type, move the cursor) with a browser, allowing it to shop, make reservations, and calculate refunds.

• It mitigates misuse by blocking high-risk/harmful tasks and blacklisted sites, asking for confirmation when sensitive information is required, and its interactions are reviewed, in real-time, by automated safety checkers.

• OpenAI is collaborating with companies like DoorDash, eBay, Instacart, and Uber to make sure Operator respects their service agreements, and “addresses real-world needs while respecting established norms.”

🔐 Relevance — Despite its clear capabilities, OpenAI has cautioned that “Operator cannot reliably handle many complex or specialized tasks, like creating slideshows or managing intricate calendar systems,” and has revealed that it may store deleted user chats and screenshots for up to 90 days to give their team time to “better understand and review potential abuse vectors.”

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♟️ Perplexity’s competitive AI move

🚨 Our Report — Perhaps in an attempt to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and the release of its AI agent—Operator—AI search engine start-up, Perpelxity, has launched an AI agent/assistant (specifically for Android mobile devices) that can perform tasks and “see” what’s on your screen, marking a “transition for Perplexity from an answer engine to a natively integrated assistant.”

🔓 Key Points:

• Because it’s powered by Perplexity’s AI-powered search engine, the assistant can answer questions, draft emails, set reminders, book dinners, and search for songs, and can also use the device's camera to “see.”

• It works with apps like Spotify, YouTube, and Uber, plus email, messaging, and clock apps, but doesn’t support Slack or Reddit yet, although Perplexity has stated that it’s “continuing to add support for more apps.”

• Although it’s “just a starting point,” the assistant is available (for nothing) for Perplexity users across 15 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi.

🔐 Relevance — While the AI assistant sounds pretty capable, CEO, Aravind Srinivas, has warned that it “[might] not always work,” which isn’t a great surprise, as Perplexity does have a reputation for launching features and products before they’re quite ready: For example, users have criticized its shopping feature—launched in November which allows users to get something, without visiting the retailer's website—for being “slow” and “error-prone.”

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👻 Anthropic’s new feature stops hallucinations?

• Anthropic has revealed a new developer feature—Citations—which references “the exact sentences and passages” from the source docs developers use to generate responses from Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude.

• Developers can add source files and get the model to reference the information it’s taken from those files, in its responses, which is useful for things like document summarization, and customer support applications.

• The ability to verify the origins of AI-generated information could be a game-changer for the AI industry as it could help mitigate hallucinations and the spread of misinformation, and aligns with Anthropic's core values.

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QUICK HITS

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FRIDAY’S Q&A

THIS WEEKS QUESTION:

“What are the big tech firms using as their firmwide ethical AI policies?”

THIS WEEKS ANSWER:

Most big tech companies have openly established what AI policies they have implemented to make sure their use of AI is ethical and responsible.

Take Microsoft, for example.

Microsoft has developed a framework—Responsible AI Standards—which is built on six, core principles, to ensure the responsible and ethical use of AI.

This is driven by their Office of Responsible AI (ORA) which oversees the governance, policy development, and implementation of responsible AI practices across the company, and their AI Ethics and Effects in Engineering and Research Committee, which has experts from various fields, that give research-based recommendations on responsible AI issues, which influence Microsoft's policies and practices.

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