🔬 Can AI Invent? 📱 iPhone Sells for $200k and 🗞️ 5 Stories Breaking Now

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Gary’s at it again, Chatbots are curing patients faster than Doctors and a 2007 iPhone just sold for $200k.

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IN TODAY’S EMAIL:

• 🔥 This Just In: Breaking News of the Day

• 🗞️ The Big Story: Can AI Invent?

• 🤖 AI & Tech News: 6 Trending Stories

• >_ Prompt Tutorial: Get in shape while working from home

• 💡 4 New AI Tools

• 📷 AI-Images of the Day: 90’s rappers as Lego Figures

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THIS JUST IN:

• Holy Moly: The ‘Holy Grail’ iPhone which flopped in 2007 just sold for almost $200k.
  
  

• Down but not out: No winners on yesterday’s $900M Powerball brings Wednesday’s drawing to an even $1B.
  
  

• Cry me a river: SEC Chair Gary Gensler says he’s “disappointed” the court ruled $XRP is not a security.
  
  

• What’s next: SEC is worried chatbots could fuel a market panic and create the next great financial crisis, says new regulation is needed.
  
  

• Positively crushing it: Pudgy Penguins continues to be a force on Amazon, selling approximately $1M in its NFT Collection branded toys since its debut in May.

BIG NEWS
Can AI be Considered an Inventor?

Brief: Generative AI, is starting to make waves in the field of invention, raising questions about the legal and ethical aspects of granting patent rights to machine-generated creations.

This debate isn't just about philosophical differences but has significant implications for the future of innovation, global competitiveness, and how we understand intellectual property rights.


Details:

1. Generative AI, like OpenAI's ChatGPT, can create various outputs, from recipes to computer code. The question is whether it can be legally recognized as an inventor.
   
   

2. Legal experts at The Artificial Inventor Project have pressed patent agencies, courts, and policymakers to address this issue. They have filed cases in the U.S. and several other countries to legally protect AI-generated inventions.
   
   

3. In the U.S., the current stance of the Patent Office and courts is that an inventor must be human. However, this is being challenged and could change as AI technology advances.
   
   

4. A proposed middle ground is to give AI systems co-inventor status, where they are credited and fully disclosed as partners in the invention process.

The Big Takeaway: AI's potential to be an inventor creates a paradigm shift in intellectual property rights. This new frontier requires revisiting traditional legal frameworks to adapt to the changing landscape.
Regardless of the outcome, the ongoing debate underscores AI's increasingly influential role in shaping our future.

🥤 The AI that Invented a Cup: Dr. Abbott, the founder of the Artificial Inventor Project, recently showcased an invention by an AI system during a Senate hearing – a novel drink container that uses fractal geometry for better heat transfer. This AI system, trained on general knowledge, didn't have any specific training in container design. The AI was designed to combine simple concepts into more complex ones, identifying positive outcomes, and the design was realized using a 3D printer. Is this the future of invention?

➡️ Read More About it Here

📻 In Other AI News

• This AI Chatbot has helped Doctors treat 3 million people - and may be coming to a hospital near you.
  
  

• AI makes another Billionaire as CEO of a Korean Semiconductor Equipment Maker net worth explodes.
  
  

• Tractable’s newest round raises $65M for car and property damage appraisals using AI.
  
  

• UK’s approach to AI safety lacks credibility, report warns.
  
  

• Meta claims their latest AI art generation model offers state-of-the-art performance on text-to-image generation.

  
  

Trending Tools & Prompts

TRENDING TOOLS

• GOODSPEED: Turn your idea into action with a product scoper.
  
  

• Resume GPT: Create a perfect resume in seconds.
  
  

• Playtext Books: 100+ books with 3 min summaries on business, science and productivity.
  
  

• Mano: Never start anything from scratch, get perfect help and create your own agents.
  
  

{PROMPT} TUTORIAL
Getting healthy while working from home


Sample Prompt: As a {software developer}* who spends most of the day sitting, what are some effective ways to maintain my health and avoid a sedentary lifestyle?

*Customize this bit

Here’s what it looks like:

The response:

Let’s get this customized with a layered prompt.
Update your question to include the following:

1. Physical Activity: What is your current level of physical activity, and what types of exercise do you enjoy?
   

2. Dietary Preferences: Do you have any dietary restrictions or preferences?
   

3. Work Setup: What is your current work setup? (i.e., traditional desk, standing desk, dual monitors)
   

4. Health Concerns: What specific health concerns do you have related to a sedentary lifestyle? (e.g. back pain, weight gain, eye strain)
   

5. Time Management: What is your daily schedule like, and how much time can you realistically dedicate to physical activity or breaks from sitting.

Updated Prompt:
Customize and paste into ChatGPT to get your detailed roadmap on how to get back into shape.

Tool: ChatGPT-4

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