🏡 Amazon doubles down on 'smart home' AI features
PLUS: The Quality Adjusting MidJourney Prompt
Arturo Ferreira & Martin Crowley
September 21, 2023
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Today's newsletter could be pretty polarizing: How do you feel about smart home devices?
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Today:
🏡 Amazon doubles down on 'smart home' AI features
Read Time: 4 minutes
Our Report: Amazon, at a launch event on Wednesday, unveiled a series of new and upgraded products, with a focus on enhancing the capabilities of their AI-powered devices and smart home features.
🔑 Key Points:
Amazon's latest offerings include new Fire tablets, Wi-Fi 7 support to the Echo Show 8, and an advanced smart home hub with a host of AI-powered features.
The Echo Hub will seamlessly integrate and manage a vast array of smart home devices. Leveraging AI, Alexa now responds with near-human intuition, adjusting the temperature when you say, "I’m cold."
Additionally, the Hub boasts features that automatically adjust lights based on the time of day, offer real-time translations for audio/video calls, and enhance the Fire TV stick with AI-powered search capabilities.
Amazon's strategy seems to align with not only competing in the smart home hardware market but also ensuring that the accompanying software experience, particularly through AI, stands out.
🤨 Why you should care: Amazon's product directions often set the trend for the broader market; thus, emphasis on AI advancements and smart home integrations can potentially redefine consumer expectations and shape the future of the smart home industry.
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✅ The Comedian Prompt
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“I want you to act as a stand-up comedian. I will provide you with some topics related to current events and you will use your wit, creativity, and observational skills to create a routine based on those topics. You should also be sure to incorporate personal anecdotes or experiences into the routine in order to make it more relatable and engaging for the audience. My first request is "I want a humorous take on politics”
🎨 The quality prompt
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—quality .25 (lowest quality)
—quality 1 (highest quality)
“A rocket ship taking off from mars, lifelike, sci-fi, futuristic, —ar 16:9, —quality 1”
OpenAI recently introduced DALL-E 3, a sophisticated image generator that accurately crafts visuals from intricate text prompts, and has marked early October for integration with ChatGPT.
The OpenAI team has prioritized two main objectives: training the model exclusively on non-copyrighted materials and ensuring images contain coherent text elements.
In response to Instacart’s AI-powered integrations, Uber Eats is introducing AI-powered features—such as an AI assistant for food recommendations and a "Sales Aisle" for promotions.
Additionally, by 2024, they will accept payments from federal healthcare programs and SNAP waivers for groceries, following industry trends targeting low-income households.
Prominent US authors, including John Grisham and George R.R. Martin, represented by the Authors Guild, have sued OpenAI, alleging the company unlawfully trained ChatGPT on their works.
The lawsuit claims training datasets might include texts from illegal sources, and comes at a time when OpenAI is under intense scrutiny from lawmakers regarding their illicit use of copyright materials used to train ChatGPT.
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