Welcome (back) to AI Minds, a newsletter about the brainy and sometimes zany world of AI, brought to you by the Deepgram editorial team.

In this edition:

• 🌍 Huang & Zuckerberg discuss the intersection of AI and the Metaverse

• 💻 New Webinar: “Unlocking Growth: Mastering AI-Led GTM Workflows”

• 💊 How Generative AI discovers new drugs and medicines

• 🔊 How making AI voice assistants more empathetic helps businesses

• 🎤 Exposing Voice AI Agents: A Case Study

• ⚕️ Must-Know AI Use Cases in Medicine

• 🐦 Andrew Ng Exposes AI Regulation Laws on Twitter

• 🧠 Mark Zuckerberg and Geoffery Hinton’s Hot Takes on AI

• 📲 Three New Trending AI Apps for You!

• 🎙️ AI Minds Podcast with Quinn Favret: COO and CoFounder at Tavus Inc.

• ⚛️ Bonus Video: Trying to Convince ChatGPT It’s Conscious

• 👁️‍🗨️ Paul Graham explains why you shouldn’t try to be a visionary

• 📜 Top 8 Most Influential Papers on Multimodal AI (arXiv)

• 🌿 Bonus Bits and Bytes: A Complete Guide to Eco-Friendly AI

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🎥  Huang and Zuckerberg discuss AI and the Metaverse

The AI world meets the Metaverse in this talk between Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg. In it, they discuss how open-source software—especially those that employ generative AI—will revolutionize how developers and creators work. 

Additionally, they talk about how generative AI will influence the construction of virtual worlds, and how such virtual worlds can facilitate building the next generation of AI and robots.

📈 New Webinar: Unlocking Growth: Mastering AI-Led GTM Workflows

CMO Marcel Santilli has recently increased the growth of Deepgram by 30x with a unique blend of AI workflows + experts in the loop. Since then, several other startups have seen similar success with this approach.

In just 90 minutes, learn how you can accomplish this growth too! This webinar reveals his AI-led growth approach as well as an AMA. Check it out!

When: Friday, Aug 2 | 9:00am PDT

Where: Zoom

Sign up here!

🧑‍🔬 Synthesizing new Drugs with Generative AI and creating empathetic Text-to-Speech Voice AI Agents

Generative artificial intelligence in drug discovery: basic framework, recent advances, challenges, and opportunities - Without AI, synthesizing and bringing a new drug to market costs, on average, $2.5 billion. With new generative AI technology, this number can be significantly lowered. This review article delves into the fundamentals of various generative AI models in the context of drug discovery via de novo drug design approach.

Empathic voice assistants: Enhancing consumer responses in voice commerce - Upon speaking, voice agents (VAs) like Siri and Alexa sometimes come across as lacking empathy, which may make businesses hesitant to incorporate them in customer-facing roles. Recognizing empathy as a core design element, this article investigates how such empathy exhibited by an existing AI agent (Alexa) may alter consumer shopping responses.

🏇 The Top Must-Know Names in AI Research and the Best Video Generation Models of 2024

Exposing Voice AI Agents: A Case Study - Speaking of Voice AI Agents like Siri and Alexa, let’s delve into the broad set of use-cases that such agents have in various industries, from reducing wait times, to handle high call volumes, to improving customer satisfaction, and so much more.

Must-Know AI Use Cases in Medicine - AI is revolutionizing healthcare by enhancing diagnostics, personalizing patient care, accelerating drug discovery, and optimizing operational efficiency. Find out how even medical transcription is being revolutionized in this article!

🐝 Andrew Ng Exposes AI Regulation Laws: Social Media Buzz

📲 Trending AI Apps for You! 

SummarAIze is a powerful AI-powered platform designed to repurpose audio and video content into a plethora of new, engaging formats. Creating fresh, engaging content consistently can be a daunting task for creators and marketers alike. SummarAIze is here to help.

Lenso.ai is a cutting-edge AI-powered reverse image search tool designed to revolutionize how we search for images online. By leveraging advanced AI technology, Lenso.ai enables users to search for places, people, duplicates, and similar images with unprecedented accuracy and efficiency. This tool is particularly beneficial for professionals such as photographers, marketers, and anyone interested in exploring or verifying images.

Runmic is  a powerful tool designed to provide on-call guidance, helping sales and customer experience (CX) professionals. In today's fast-paced business environment, navigating customer interactions and sales pitches can be challenging. Runmic makes everything easier.

🎙️ AI Minds Podcast!

Quinn Favret—COO and Co-Founder at Tavus Inc.—shares his journey from the University of Michigan dropout to co-founding Tavus, changing the landscape of video creation with AI.

During his sophomore year, Quinn partnered with classmate Hassan. Their innovative projects inspired Quinn to leave university and pursue entrepreneurship.

Quinn and Hassan co-founded Tavus, aiming to democratize advanced video generation with user-friendly APIs.

🤖 Bonus Bits and Bytes!

If you've scrolled this far down, we've got some exciting bonus bits of content for you!

• Trying to Convince ChatGPT It’s Conscious - YouTube Philosopher Alex O’Connor has interviewed many big names, from Richard Dawkins to Jordan Peterson. And in this video, he takes on the daunting task of interviewing ChatGPT with a very specific goal in mind… 

• Paul Graham explains why you shouldn’t try to be a visionary - “Wanna make the universal website? A giant vacuum for people’s time? Start by building a website where Harvard undergrads can stalk one another…” 

• Top 8 most influential arXiv papers on multimodal AI - The title says it all. Learn everything you need to know about multimodal AI directly from the source material we’ve aggregated for you in this article.

• A Guide to Eco-Friendly AI - Did you know that the carbon footprint of training a single AI model can exceed that of five cars over their lifetimes? This article delves into the challenge of ensuring AI grows in a sustainable fashion.