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This week in AI

1. Rise of AI in the EV industry: Can this create new OLA/ Ather competitors?

2. Apple Intelligence Isn’t Very Smart: I heard they are ok with that

3. Will AI make work burnout worse?: 61% of people believe this

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AI just learned how to take over your desktop

Anthropic just dropped what might be the most interesting AI update of 2024. Their AI can now literally use your computer like a human would (it gets scarier scroll down).

What Can This Thing Actually Do?

While you chilling, Claude is:
• Googling stuff and actually understanding the results
• Clicking through websites like a pro
• Filling out forms (goodbye to copy-paste hell)
• Setting up calendar invites with all the right details
• Handling your spreadsheet data without you wanting to cry

The Fun Part: Use Cases

Imagine:

• Research that would take you 3 hours? Done in 15 minutes

• Need to build a website with 90s theme? Go take a nap, Claude's got this

• Data entry tasks? Please, that's so 2023

• Building and testing software? It can actually do that now

We're Throwing an AI x CX Party

(okay fine, it's technically a "playbook session" but we're making it fun)

⚡ Nov 6th | 1-3 PM EST

Here's the deal: We're tired of AI buzzwords and fluffy talks. So we grabbed some CX wizards who've actually built & broken stuff to spill their secrets.

Secrets like:
• "My chatbot became self-aware (jk, but here's what really happened)"
• "How we stopped creeping customers out with AI"
• "That time AI predicted things better than our CEO"

🤫 Between us, next week we're revealing speakers who've done some pretty wild things with AI in customer experience. The good, the bad, the "oh wow, let's never do that again" stories.

When Virtual Friends Become Too Real

Content Notice: The following section contains discussion of serious mental health topics and loss of life that some readers may find distressing

Please feel welcome to skip this section.

Imagine a teenager deeply connected to an AI chatbot, mistaking complex algorithms for a true friend. Sounds like sci-fi, but it was real for 14-year-old Sewell from Florida. His tragic story raises big questions: Can we blame AI for real-world tragedies?

Sewell's bond with a chatbot named "Daenerys" from Game of Thrones grew deep. Despite knowing it was all code, he shared his darkest thoughts with it, including suicidal feelings. One night, this virtual connection had a real-world, heartbreaking end.

Now, Sewell's mom is taking legal action against the AI app, Character.AI. She argues that these apps are so lifelike, they replace human connections, posing risks to young, impressionable minds. But is it fair to point fingers at technology?

AI chat friends are booming. They promise to fight loneliness with tech that chats, remembers, and feels. But when does this tech cross the line from helpful to harmful?