From Movies to Sunglasses, AI is finding itself in our world.

Ai5ers,

Pushing boundaries and buttons, from Meta’s privacy concerns to rising electricity costs, while AI is entering classrooms and film festivals. These stories reveal how deeply integrated (and disruptive) AI has become across industries.

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Today's Ai5:

🧐 The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster
💰 AI revolution is likely to drive up your electicity bill
🕶️ Meta unveils it's Oakley smart glasses
🎥 AI short film, "ANCESTRA," premieres at the Tribeca Festival
🍎 Teachers in England given the green-light to use AI

Prompt of the Day 🎨

It's summertime: "Generate a realistic photo of a cracked egg frying on a sun-scorched city sidewalk during a hot summer day. The egg should be sizzling with visible heat waves rising from the pavement. In the background, a group of children are laughing and playing in a yard sprinkler, water droplets glistening in the sunlight. Surrounding them are elements of a typical urban neighborhood brick buildings, chain-link fences, and maybe a fire hydrant. The contrast between the intense heat of the foreground and the joyful, cooling water in the background should be visually striking. Lastly, put a caption as the top: It's so hot out, you can..."

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster 🧐

When you ask the AI a question, you have the option of hitting a share button, which then directs you to a screen showing a preview of the post, which you can then publish. But some users appear blissfully unaware that they are sharing these text conversations, audio clips, and images publicly with the world.

As each second passes, these seemingly innocuous inquiries on the Meta AI app inch closer to a viral mess. In a matter of hours, more and more posts have appeared on the app that indicate clear trolling, like someone sharing their résumé and asking for a cybersecurity job, or an account with a Pepe the Frog avatar asking how to make a water bottle bong.

Full article by Amanda Silberling

The AI revolution is likely to drive up your electricity bill 💰

The spread of these large-scale computing facilities across the U.S. amid growing demand for artificial intelligence, data storage and other technology services is projected to increase electricity consumption to record highs in the coming years, according to experts.

"As utilities race to meet skyrocketing demand from AI and cloud computing, they're building new infrastructure and raising rates, often without transparency or public input," he told CBS MoneyWatch in an email. "That means higher electricity bills for everyday households, while tech companies benefit from sweetheart deals behind closed doors."

About 4.4% of U.S. electricity went to power data centers in 2023, according to a Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study.

Full Article by Mary Cunningham

Meta unveils its Oakley smart glasses 🕶️

After months of rumors, Meta has officially announced its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley. The smart glasses have double the battery life of the Meta Ray-Bans and are able to capture 3K video.

The limited-edition Oakley Meta HSTN model with gold-colored accents costs $499 and will be available for preorder on July 11th. The rest of the collection starts at $399 and is dropping later this summer, Meta says.

The glasses feature a front-facing camera, along with open-ear speakers and microphones. You can use the classes to listen to music, take photos, and make and receive calls.

Full article by Aisha Malik

AI short film, "ANCESTRA," premiers at the Tribeca Festival 🎥

This is the first of three short films produced in partnership between our team at Google DeepMind and Primordial Soup, a new venture dedicated to storytelling innovation founded by director Darren Aronofsky.

“ANCESTRA” combined live-action scenes with sequences generated by Veo, our state-of-the-art video generation model. McNitt described her experience working with our technology: "Veo is another lens through which I get to imagine the universe around me.”

To create “ANCESTRA”, Google DeepMind assembled a multidisciplinary creative team of animators, art directors, designers, writers, technologists and researchers who worked closely with more than 200 experts in traditional filmmaking and production, a live-action crew and cast, plus an editorial team, visual effects (VFX) artists, sound designers and music composers.

Full article by Kory Mathewson

Teachers in England given the green-light to use AI 🍎

Guidance from the Department for Education (DfE) says AI can be used by school teachers in England, but it should only be for ‘low stakes’ tasks, such as writing letters to parents and marking homework.

The decision to approve the use of the technology follows the results of a survey of teachers in 2023, undertaken on behalf of the DfE.

By allowing staff to use AI tools, it’s hoped that the statistics around teachers’ mental health in general should improve (36% of teachers have experienced ‘burn-out’ and will have the effect of attracting more graduates to the profession.

Full article by Joe Green