Welcome to the 1st Newsletter!

In todays scoop 🍨 

• Sorry Cupid, AI Is Taking Your Job 💘

• The Laundry-Folding Robots Are Coming 🤖

• Brace Yourself for the Intelligence Age 🧠 - Sam Altman's AGI Prediction

• 3 Trending AI Tools 🔧 

Sorry Cupid, AI Is Taking Your Job 💘

Let's be real: your dating game could probably use an upgrade. And by upgrade, I mean the kind powered by artificial intelligence, not another gym selfie. 📸

Alright, so dating apps are getting their "AI upgrade," and the question on everyone’s mind is: can an algorithm really help you find love? Welcome to the world of AI wingmen—virtual assistants that won’t just help you score a date but might even run the convo so you can, well, chill.

Grindr’s rolling out a bot that’s basically a digital matchmaker on steroids. Picture this: Grindr’s AI doesn’t just suggest potential dates; it chats with other AIs to make sure your date won’t be a total dud. By the time you’re actually texting a real human, the groundwork’s done, and your “wingbot” has already handled the small talk for you. 

Tinder and Bumble aren’t far behind, dropping AI tools to help you pick profile pics, as well as plans in the pipeline for topic generators to help keep the chat flowing and avoid ghosting by crafting those clever opening lines​.

And it doesn’t stop there. Enter Rizz—a hype man for your dating life. Got a convo going stale? Rizz can slide in, giving you the perfect witty reply or even nudging you when it’s time to take things offline. It’s like having a friend who’s really good at dating advice—except it’s, you know, AI. 

Want to get really weird? Meet SciMatch, the app that thinks your soulmate probably looks like your cousin. It uses facial analysis to match people who look similar because... science? 🤷‍♀️

The Million Dollar Question

Is all this AI assistance making dating better, or are we just outsourcing our personalities to algorithms?

Sure, there's the whole privacy thing (your dating AI probably knows more about your type than your therapist), but if it means never having to answer "how was your weekend?" again, maybe that's a trade-off worth making.

Bottom Line: While your grandparents may have met in a smoky jazz bar, and fell in love over shared records your your future kids might owe their existence to a dating app algorithm and a chatbot with ‘mad rizz.’ Ah, progress—making love stories weirder with every generation!

P.S. If you're reading this, future AI dating assistant, please stop suggesting "Let's grab coffee sometime" as a closer. We can do better.

The Laundry-Folding Robots Are Coming 🤖

... And They're Backed by Heavyweights like Open AI & Jeff Bezos. 

You know how we've all been dreaming of the day when robots will finally take over our most dreaded chore - folding laundry? Well, that future is closer than you think. 

San Francisco startup Physical Intelligence just hit unicorn status with a $400 MILLION raise, valuing the company at $2.4 BILLION. And get this - their flagship creation, an AI model called π₀ (Pi-zero), is a true jack-of-all-trades when it comes to household tasks.

We're talking folding laundry, bussing tables, even packing groceries - this thing can do it all! 🤯

Unlike those one-trick pony robots of the past (we’re looking at you vacuum bots 👀), Physical Intelligence's model has been trained on a massive dataset spanning countless real-world scenarios. By blending vision, language, and action modeling, π₀ can learn complex sequences and tackle a wide variety of jobs.

The tech giants are racing to make household robots a reality, and Physical Intelligence is leading the charge. While they still have work to do on dexterity and decision-making, their progress is already redefining what's possible.

Imagine a world where your laundry folds itself, the dishes clear the table, and you never have to worry about taking out the trash. Physical Intelligence is making that vision a real possibility.

So keep your eyes peeled. The robot revolution is coming, and it's starting with a fresh load of your finest cotton blends! 🤖

Brace Yourself for the Intelligence Age 🧠

Sam Altman's AGI Prediction

Hold onto your keyboards! OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could arrive as soon as 2025. That's right— as early as next year, machines might match or even surpass human intellect. 🤯

Welcome to the Intelligence Age

Altman isn't just talking about smarter gadgets; he's envisioning an "Intelligence Age" where AI transforms every facet of our lives - a transformative new era where AI assistants become our personal sidekicks, helping us with everything from education to scientific breakthroughs. Want to finally solve climate change or discover the secrets of the universe? Just ask your friendly neighborhood AI assistant. There will be breakthroughs that make today's tech look as cutting edge as a fax machine. 📠

But here's the twist: to make this AI-powered utopia accessible to all—not just the tech elite—Altman stresses the need for abundant, affordable computing power.

Engineering Our Way to AGI

According to Altman, we don't need a sci-fi miracle to reach AGI—just some serious engineering elbow grease. OpenAI is zeroing in on refining their o1 reasoning model to make AI think better and faster. With team members like Noam Brown and Clive Chan backing this approach, they believe AGI is closer than the skeptics think.

Hold On, Say the Skeptics ✋

But not everyone is on the AGI express train. Industry heavyweights like Meta’s Yann LeCun and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis argue that AGI could still be a decade or more away. They predict progress will come through gradual steps, not leaps.

The Big Picture

Altman envisions AGI reshaping labor markets—not by taking jobs, but by elevating human creativity and productivity. Yet, he acknowledges the risks and emphasizes the need to navigate this new frontier carefully.

The Final Word

Whether you're hyped or hesitant, the AGI conversation is heating up. If Altman's timeline holds, we might be on the cusp of an era that makes the Information Age look like dial-up internet. So maybe start saying "please" and "thank you" to Siri—just in case.

3 Trending AI Tools

• 🎬 Runway - empowering creators to produce and edit high-quality videos directly from their web browser.

• 🦸 Superhuman -AI-powered email client designed to enhance productivity by offering features like customizable split inboxes, instant replies, and seamless collaboration tools, helping users manage their emails more efficiently.

• ✍️ tl;dv - an AI-powered meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings across platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, enhancing productivity and collaboration.

That’s a wrap for today folks!

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See you tomorrow! 👋