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PLUS: AIKEA Furnishes a New Blueprint

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  • 🧪 Research highlights: AI Predicts VR Queasiness

  • 🚨 Industry news: IKEA Furnishes a New Blueprint: AI and Remote Interior Design

  • ⚖️ Policy and regulation: UN Chief Proposes Global Watchdog

  • 🌐 AI and society: When the Quill Meets the Algorithm: The Battle for Creative Authenticity

  • 🧰 Tool of the day: Spotalike: The Sound of AI

🥽 AI Predicts VR Queasiness

Researchers from Charles Darwin University and Torrens University conducted a study using artificial intelligence (AI) to forecast the occurrence of cybersickness in virtual reality (VR) headset users.

They processed questionnaire data from two groups of individuals using AI techniques and machine learning algorithms: those who would experience cybersickness symptoms within minutes of using VR devices and those not.

Using Ai-Labz, a tool developed by study co-author and Associate Professor Niusha Shafiabady, the team could forecast VR user discomfort with a 93% accuracy rate.

Shafiabady emphasized the significance of this predictive ability in the ongoing development and application of VR technology, as it enables developers and manufacturers to proactively address issues causing cybersickness, thereby improving the user experience.

The next phase of the study could entail using explainable AI algorithms to shed light on the reasoning behind particular predictions. This study, titled "Identifying the presence of cybersickness symptoms using AI-based predictive learning algorithms," was published in the journal Virtual Reality.

🛋️ IKEA Furnishes a New Blueprint: AI and Remote Interior Design

IKEA is transitioning to remote interior design services and incorporating AI into its sales strategy, educating 8,500 call center employees as interior design advisors and employing a Billie-named AI bot to handle common customer inquiries.

Launched in April in the United Kingdom and the United States, the remote interior design services contributed 3.3% of IKEA's total revenue of 1.3 billion euros in fiscal year 2022.

IKEA plans to increase this percentage to 10% by 2028 to attract Gen Z customers. Comparatively, IKEA's digital sales accounted for 25% of total sales in the fiscal year concluding in August 2022.

Like competitor Wayfair, the company invests in digital services to enable customers to experiment with furniture styles and arrangements in virtual rooms, a strategy intended to reflect products and reduce returns accurately.

🕵️ UN Chief Proposes Global Watchdog

In response to concerns over the most recent form of artificial intelligence, generative AI, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres endorsed the establishment of an international AI watchdog similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Guterres intends to establish a high-level AI advisory body by the end of the year, which will evaluate AI governance arrangements and make recommendations for their alignment with human rights, the rule of law, and the public interest.

He suggested that an AI agency modeled after the IAEA could be "very interesting." Still, he emphasized that its creation would be the responsibility of the member states and not the UN Secretariat.

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have also expressed support for this organization. Guterres also voiced his support for an AI summit in the United Kingdom, provided that "serious work" precedes it. He disclosed his intention to appoint a scientific advisory council of AI experts and chief scientists from UN agencies.

🔢 When the Quill Meets the Algorithm: The Battle for Creative Authenticity

The author of The AI In The Writers Room explores human ingenuity's intricate and affective dynamics in a period that AI progressively impacts.

The composition showcases a significant interaction between humanity's aspirations, anxieties, and constraints juxtaposed with the encroachment of artificial intelligence into the hallowed realm of narrative.

The narrative presents a story of two creators struggling with their work's authenticity and relevance. This culminates in a significant revelation, namely the demise of Young Adult literature, as pronounced by one of the characters named Brayden. The quintuple literary masterpiece "The Fires of Tolleckmire," authored by the individual in question, is not perceived as young adult literature by his associate, leading to turmoil regarding his sense of self and objectives.

Ultimately, Brayden relinquishes his efforts, resulting in a poignant depiction of the vulnerability of humanity, its aspirations, and the unyielding progression of technology.

This statement highlights human creativity's intricate and multifaceted nature, which may pose a challenge for even the most sophisticated AI systems to emulate.

🎶 Spotalike: The Sound of AI

Spotalike is a web-based AI tool designed to generate customized Spotify playlists based on users’ favorite songs or artists. By simply inputting a preferred track or artist, Spotalike will create a playlist of similar pieces the user will likely enjoy. This tool is ideal for discovering new music, creating mood-specific playlists, and finding music for occasions like parties, workouts, or road trips.

Learn more about the tool here.

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–Andrew Ng

We have seen AI providing conversation and comfort to the lonely; we have also seen AI engaging in racial discrimination. Yet the biggest harm that AI is likely to do to individuals in the short term is job displacement, as the amount of work we can automate with AI is vastly larger than before. As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity to thrive.

—Steve Jobs

If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

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