Perplexity AI Adds One-Click Shopping to Its Search Engine

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In Today’s Newsletter: 😀 

• Perplexity AI Adds One-Click Shopping to Its Search Engine

• Say Hello to AI Granny! She will waste the scammer’s time

• AI models have secret capabilities You can’t access with normal prompts

• Suno AI music generator upgrades to version 4 with new features

Perplexity
🛍️ Perplexity AI Adds One-Click Shopping to Its Search Engine

AI answer engine Perplexity adds direct shopping capabilities with one-click checkout and AI product recommendations. The company aims to streamline the online shopping experience through its search interface.

Insights for you:

• AI answer engine Perplexity introduces new shopping features, including a one-click checkout for Pro users in the U.S. called "Buy with Pro" and a visual search feature called "Snap to Shop" that matches product suggestions to uploaded photos.

• At the same time, Perplexity is launching a retailer program that will allow larger retailers to integrate their product data directly for a better chance of receiving recommendations.

• One potential downside to this new shopping feature is errors in Perplexity's AI responses, known as "hallucinations." The company has not yet disclosed how often these errors occur.

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O2
👵 Say Hello to AI Granny! She will waste the scammer’s time

U.K.’s largest mobile network operator, O2, introduced a chatbot designed to frustrate phone scammers. Modeled after a witty and wise British grandmother, dAIsy uses conversational AI to waste scammers' time and gather critical data for law enforcement.

Insights for you:

• O2 has created a human-like AI ‘Granny’ to answer calls in real-time from fraudsters, keeping them on the phone and away from customers for as long as possible.

• Called ‘Daisy’ (dAIsy), the AI model’s mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling chat to keep them away from real people.

• Daisy combines various AI models that work together to listen and respond to fraudulent calls instantaneously. It is so lifelike that it has successfully kept numerous fraudsters on calls for 40 minutes at a time.

AI Research
🧝 AI models have secret capabilities You can’t access with normal prompts

A new research method reveals how AI systems learn concepts and are more capable than previously thought. Analysis in "concept space" reveals surprising results and offers clues for better training and prompt engineering.

Insights for you:

• Researchers have developed a new analysis method called "concept space". The results show that models learn concepts such as color or shape at different rates - depending on the signal strength of these features in the training data.

• The study shows that AI models have hidden capabilities that they cannot access through simple text input.

• However, these hidden capabilities can be activated using special techniques such as 'latent intervention' or 'overprompting'.

Suno
🎼 Suno AI music generator upgrades to version 4 with new features

Suno has released version 4 of its AI music generation model. V4 delivers cleaner audio, sharper lyrics, and more dynamic compositions than previous versions.

Insights for you:

• AI music startup Suno has released version 4 of its AI music generator as a beta for Pro and Premier users, with improvements to audio quality and song structures.

• New features in the update include a "Remaster" tool for upgrading older songs, the lyrics assistant "ReMi", and more creative cover art designs, as well as updates to the existing "Covers" and "Personas" functions.

• Initial user reactions to the beta are mixed, with clearer lyrics being praised, but technical issues with cymbals/reverb and weaknesses in the "Remaster" function and revised "Personas" are also reported.