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🥄 Is Your Spoon Watching You? AI's New Role in Tracking Your Diet!

Welcome to Today’s Newsletter!

Today:

  • Can AI Really Count Every Calorie You Eat?

  • Person spotlight - George III

  • Ticketmaster’s been hacked - what’s the impact?

  • GPT - SciSpace - Need comprehensive research insights?

Quote of the day

“AI is the new electricity. Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100 years ago, today I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several years”

ANDREW NG - Co-founder of Coursera

AI Matters Top News Pick

A Techie Way to Diet

In an age where fitness apps and wearables dominate health trends, a new contender enters the arena—an AI system designed to monitor your diet by watching every bite you take.

This innovative technology uses image recognition to analyse the food on your plate and instantly calculates its calorie content, offering a high-tech approach to traditional diet tracking.

How It Works:
  • Advanced image recognition to identify and analyse foods

  • Real-time analysis to assess every meal

  • Accurate calculations of calories and nutrients based on visual data

Fun and Fit or Too Much?

This breakthrough in diet management could make calorie counting simple and fun, revolutionizing how we approach nutrition.

However, it also brings up significant privacy concerns. How comfortable are we with AI becoming an intimate part of our daily routines, even at meal times?

Could this level of monitoring be seen as intrusive, or will we embrace it as a helpful tool?

As AI enters more personal aspects of our lives, the balance between utility and privacy becomes a critical conversation.

Are we ready to let AI join us at the dinner table, potentially watching and analysing every bite we take?

Eating in the Age of AI

The potential for AI in dietary monitoring is immense, offering personalized nutrition advice at the tip of your spoon.

While the technology promises convenience and precision, it's crucial to weigh its benefits against potential intrusions into our personal lives.

AI Matters News Highlights

China's spacecraft Chang'e-6 is making history as the first to snag samples from the far side of the moon, launching a whole new chapter in lunar exploration.

Ticketmaster's been hacked, with cyber crooks offering up customer data on the dark web, causing a major security headache.

Scientists are turning carbon dioxide into fuels and other products, transforming this notorious greenhouse gas into useful resources.

GPT Of The Day

GPT SciSpace By SciSpace.com

SciSpace

Empowering Researchers with Seamless Literature Insights.

SciSpace’s unique selling point is its ability to deliver detailed and precise literature reviews and research insights instantly, leveraging advanced APIs and AI technology to support academic and scientific research efficiently.

By leveraging advanced APIs, it delivers precise and relevant academic insights, saving researchers valuable time and effort.

This GPT is perfect for Researchers, Academics and Students

Topic

User Case

Prompt

Literature Review for a Research Project

A researcher needs a comprehensive literature review on the latest advancements in renewable energy technologies.

"Find the latest research papers on advancements in renewable energy technologies and provide a comprehensive literature review."

Context Extraction for Specific Research Questions

A student is writing a thesis and needs specific insights on the impact of AI in healthcare from recent research papers.

"Extract the most relevant contexts from recent research papers on the impact of AI in healthcare."

Identifying Research Gaps

An academic is looking to identify gaps in the existing literature on machine learning applications in cybersecurity.

"Analyze the current literature on machine learning applications in cybersecurity and identify research gaps."

  • Pros

    1. Provides comprehensive and detailed literature reviews.

    2. Offers precise and relevant research insights.

    3. Saves researchers time by streamlining the literature search process.

  • Cons

    1. May not cover very recent publications immediately.

    2. Limited to the scope of available databases and APIs.

    3. Requires clear and specific prompts for optimal results.

USER REVIEW

4.3 out of 5 Stars

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AI Matters Picture Of The Day

Sunlit Serenity: Sunglasses in the Glow

Prompt: A realistic photo of a pair of sunglasses lying on a surface, with the sun shining brightly through the lenses, creating a warm, glowing effect around the glasses. The scene is set outdoors, with the light reflecting subtle patterns on the ground around the sunglasses. The focus is sharp on the sunglasses, showing the frames and lenses in detail, and the background softly blurred to emphasize the glasses.

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AI Matters - On This Day

4th June

This Day In History

4th June 1783

First Hot Air Balloon Demonstration by the Montgolfier Brothers: In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers conducted the first public demonstration of their hot air balloon, marking a pivotal moment in the history of human flight. This balloon, made from paper and silk, was the first to carry passengers, although the initial flight was unmanned and used animals as test passengers to gauge the safety of human flight.

The Montgolfier brothers' demonstration of the hot air balloon stands as a landmark in aviation history, marking the first time humans could realistically contemplate aerial travel, which would have profound implications on global exploration, warfare, and transportation.

Birthdays

George III

Born: June 4, 1738
Reign: October 25, 1760 – January 29, 1820
Profession: King of Great Britain and Ireland, later King of the United Kingdom

George III was the King of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom, as well as King of Ireland during a period marked by significant change both domestically and internationally. His long reign saw the amalgamation of Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom, the American Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars.

Image by Allan Ramsay

AI Matters Book Club

AI Matters Book Club - June

Dive into the World of AI with Our Monthly Book Club!
This month’s pick is:

Artificial Intelligence - A guide for thinking humans - By Melanie Mitchell

Each month, we explore a fascinating book that sheds light on the many facets of artificial intelligence, from its ethical dilemmas to ground-breaking innovations.

"Artificial Intelligence - A guide for thinking humans" by Melanie Mitchell. No recent scientific enterprise has been so alluring, terrifying and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. Writing with clarity and passion, leading AI researcher Melanie Mitchell offers a captivating account of modern-day artificial intelligence.

Don't miss out — it's time to get reading!

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