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:

• 🎥 Fully reviewing DeepSeek R1: The rival to OpenAI’s o1

• 🧬 Research: Artificial intelligence in clinical genetics

• 🤖 Scientists use Reddit to analyze the “Post-ChatGPT era” of the internet

• ⚡ Why Speed is everything for Voice AI Agents

• 🔈 What exactly is an AI Voice Agent, and how can it help you?

• 🐦 Social Media Buzz: Zuckerberg’s surprising forecast on AI and jobs

• 📲 Three new, trending AI Apps for you!

• 🎙️ New AI Minds Podcast with Sumanyu Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO at Hamming AI

• 🎞️ Top 10 most-cited AI Research papers of 2024

• 🧠 A Full comparison: Google Veo 2 vs OpenAI Sora

• 🐍 How to trick AI benchmarks (and the general public)

• 📚 Glossary entry: Statistical Relational Learning

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🎥 A rival to o1 has appeared… but is it actually good?

In this video, AI expert and YouTuber Matthew Berman reviews DeepSeek R1—an open-source model that offers o1-levels of performance “across math, code, and reasoning tasks.” In order to see the model in action, check out the video above!

🔍  AI in Clinical Genetics and the Reddit “Post-ChatGPT Era"

Artificial intelligence in clinical genetics - This review focuses on previous, current, and especially emerging applications of AI in clinical genetics. It discusses AI in clinical genetics in three main categories: clinical diagnostics; management and therapeutics; clinical support.

Excitements and concerns in the post-ChatGPT era: Deciphering public perception of AI through social media analysis - This paper investigates how mass social media users perceive the recent rise of AI frameworks such as ChatGPT. The authors leverage zero-shot prompting to analyze the sentiment and perception of AI among individual users on various subreddits.

⚡ Why Speed is Everything for Voice AI Agents, and how these agents can make your life easier

Why Speed is Everything for Voice AI Agents: Benchmarks, Metrics, and Real-World Impact - Speed transforms AI agents from impressive tools into indispensable solutions that enable real-time capabilities like life-saving decisions in autonomous vehicles and microsecond financial trades. Here’s how speed can save lives and make money.

What exactly is an AI Voice Agent? An In-depth Guide to Voice AI Technologies and Applications - AI Voice Agents combine Speech-to-Text (STT), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies to enable real-time, human-like interactions. Unlike traditional text-based systems, they deliver intuitive, natural communication. From reflect agents to learning agents, learn everything you need to know here.

🐝 Social Media Buzz: Zuckerberg’s forecast on AI and jobs

📲 Three new, trending AI Apps for you!

Medoo is a prime example of how smart software can revolutionize the coaching industry. Created by founders with impressive backgrounds from companies like Atlassian, Canva, and Google, Medoo is designed to enhance the effectiveness of coaching, management, and therapy sessions.

Typpo is revolutionizing the way we create and share videos by harnessing the power of AI and our own voices. This user-friendly application allows individuals to transform spoken words into visually engaging motion designs with incredible ease.

Swapp is an innovative architectural technology company revolutionizing the design and build process for multifamily and educational buildings. Powered by AI, Swapp's platform analyzes previous projects to streamline documentation and boost architecture teams' efficiency.

🎤 The AI Minds Podcast

Sumanyu Sharma, Co-Founder and CEO at Hamming AI, the platform automates AI voice agent testing, production call monitoring and governance for AI voice agents. The army of voice AI agents act like real people and place thousands of test calls simultaneously to find bugs, hallucinations and other issues often missed during manual testing.

🤖 Bonus Bits and Bytes!

• 🎞️ Top 10 Most-Cited AI Research Papers of 2024 - In this video, YouTuber bycloud goes through (more than) 10 research papers in the field of AI/ML with the most citations in the year 2024. 

• 🧠A full comparison: Google Veo 2 vs OpenAI Sora - This head-to-head video dives into the capabilities of OpenAI Sora and Google Veo 2, two cutting-edge AI video generation models. 

• 🐍 Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks - In this provocative, eye-opening article, AI experts Jose Francisco and Josh Fox reveal ways that devious programmers can trick benchmarks or artificially boost their models’ performances.

• 📚 Statistical Relational Learning- This article covers statistical relational learning, a visionary subfield of AI where statistics, logic, and data come together to model the uncertain and relational.