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Thursday’s top story: OpenAI has released a new feature that allows users to call or WhatsApp ChatGPT, to make it more accessible for non-tech people.

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🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. ☎️ You can call or WhatsApp ChatGPT?

2. 🔏 How to protect your information online with Incogni

3. 🤔 Google’s Gemini: Accuracy questioned

4. 📱 How to invest in this major pre-IPO option with Mode Mobile 

5. 💬 How to leverage voice recognition and NLP using ChatGPT

6. 🪙 Perplexity AI hits $9B

7. 🤩 YouTube helps celebs spot AI fakes

Read Time: 5 minutes

FACT OF THE DAY

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STOCK MARKETS

◀️ The market reversed aggressively during Thursday’s trading as the Federal reserve made comments that interest rates will be kept higher for longer, heading into 2025. There were no notable out-performers as the whole market felt the pain. Learn more.

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CHATBOTS

☎️ You can call or WhatsApp ChatGPT?

Our Report: On the 10th Day of OpenAI, OpenAI revealed that ChatGPT now has a telephone number (1-800-242-8478 / 1-800-ChatGPT) so users can now call or WhatsApp it, ask it questions, and read or listen to its responses, via a landline or smartphone.

🔑 Key Points:

• In the demo, OpenAI used an iPhone—older models and rotary phones can also be used—and showed how users can call ChatGPT on, say, a road trip, and ask it questions about sites and landmarks.

• It can also translate sentences into different languages, and in WhatsApp, users can text it for information, say a recipe, and it will send a plain text back (although images and web searches are coming).

• It doesn’t cost anything to call ChatGPT for 15 minutes a month on a phone plan, and OpenAI confirmed that no data from voice calls or WhatsApps will be used for training their models.

🤔 Why you should care: Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen OpenAI launch ChatGPT features—like a Search engine, Canvas for finetuning writing and code projects, and Projects for organizing conversations—that are geared towards less technical people, which aligns with their mission to “make artificial general intelligence beneficial to all of humanity”, which explains why they’ve introduced this calling/texting feature: To make the technology more accessible to as many people as possible.

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TOGETHER WITH INCOGNI

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CHATBOTS

🤔 Google’s Gemini: Accuracy questioned

Our Report: Google has told prompt engineer contractors from GlobalLogic—who rate the accuracy and “truthfulness” of its Gemini chatbot responses, in a bid to improve the model—to evaluate the chatbot’s responses to all prompts, even if the prompts are beyond their area of expertise.

🔑 Key Points:

• Previously Google told these contractors to “skip” prompts—and, therefore, the evaluation of those prompts—if they didn’t “have critical expertise” to rate it, like coding or math knowledge.

• But now, a new internal guideline from Google has instructed the contractors not to “skip prompts that require specialized domain knowledge,” instead, asking them to rate the parts of the prompt they understand.

• Contractors can now just skip prompts if they’re “completely missing information” like the full prompt or response, or if they contain harmful content that requires special consent to evaluate.

🤔 Why you should care: Google’s new guidelines have raised concerns about Gemini’s accuracy, especially on niche or highly technical or sensitive topics, like healthcare or rare diseases

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TOGETHER WITH MODE MOBILE

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Thursday’s Prompt: How to leverage voice recognition and NLP using ChatGPT

Type this prompt into ChatGPT:

Results: After typing this prompt, you will get insights into leveraging voice recognition and NLP to bolster your voice assistant.

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FUNDING

🪙 Perplexity AI hits $9B

• AI search engine (and Google rival), Perplexity, has closed a $500M funding round, which was led by Institutional Venture Partners and included backing from SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Jeff Bezos.

• This latest funding has tripled their valuation to $9B, as they were valued at $520M at the start of the year, which rose to $1B in April and then increased to $3B in June, after a funding round, led by Softbank.

• This comes as they announced that they were serving over 100M search queries p/w, launched an AI shopping assistant for US shoppers, and inked several revenue-sharing partnerships with publishers.

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TOOLS

🤩 YouTube helps celebs spot AI fakes

• YouTube is partnering with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to help celebrities, athletes, and creators identify content that uses their AI-generated likeness (without permission) on the platform.

• The tool, which YouTube will begin testing next year, will not just help these celebrities identify AI-generated replicas of themselves but it will also allow them to submit a plea for them to be deleted.

• YouTube will begin by rolling to tool out to “award-winning actors and top athletes from the NBA and NFL,” and then make it available for “top YouTube creators and creative professionals.”

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