AI’s Power Grab: Burgers, Biotech, and Big Brother

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From taking fast-food orders to mapping career paths and designing new drugs, AI is making bold moves across industries. But as these tools grow smarter, questions about ethics, human connection, and creativity are demanding equal attention. Do you have concerns about AI? Where are you with AI? Feel free to leave a comment (view in website).

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Today's Ai5:

🧐 AI Will Soon Be Taking Your Order
🔧 GPT-4o Image Generation
🤓 Recruitment machines, help or hindrance?
💰 Isomorphic raises $600M for AI drugmaking
🤨 Musk Sells X to xAI; Raises Questions, Concerns

Prompt of the Day 🎨

PROMPT (Leonardo.ai): "Group of happy skiers in colorful outfits on a sunny mountain slope, smiling, wearing helmets and goggles, snow-covered peaks and pine trees in the background, bright clear sky.”

AI Will Soon Be Taking Your Order 🧐

Through a partnership with technology company Nvidia, fast-food giant Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC) will begin rolling out AI at hundreds of its locations starting in April and continuing through June. That includes using the company's voice-ordering tech, which will handle complex menu orders and navigate customer speech patterns, according to a news release this week.

Yum! Brands joins other fast-food companies, like McDonald's and Wendy's, that have experimented with AI at its locations.

Full article by Anthony Robledo

TOOL: GPT-4o Image Generator 🔧

ChatGPT has a new Image Generator. GPT-4o can now interact directly into a conversational interface, allowing for real-time, back-and-forth edits and more context-aware visuals.

Unlike DALL·E, GPT-4o can remember details from earlier in the conversation, making its images more consistent with user intent.

At Ai5, we aren't convinced this new image generator is significantly better than Dall-e though cridicts say it rivals the abilities of Midjourney.

We would like your vote: Is ChatGPT Image Generator the best Visual AI tool out there?

Free-tier: Users can generate up to three images per day.

Premium Plan: ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscriptions are available at $20-200 per month. offering additional features and higher usage limits.

https://www.chatgpt.com/

Recruitment machines, help or hinderence? 🤓

Algorithms can write job descriptions and filter applications to find the best candidate or help build training programs by identifying skills gaps among current workers.

But there is a growing recognition of a tipping point where the use of AI becomes more of a hindrance than a help. At the centre of any work relationship are people, who need to connect and use their own intuition when making decisions.

Employers are starting to recognize this and are paying more attention to creative thinking, complex problem solving, the ability to learn and emotional intelligence. A job applicant’s most valuable qualities are what makes them human.

Full article by Matthew Allen

Isomorphic raises $600M for AI drugmaking 💰

Isomorphic Labs, a British company developing new ways to design and develop medicines, raised $600 million to advance its artificial intelligence technology.

Last year, Isomorphic launched a new iteration of AlphaFold that can predict the structure of DNA and RNA, as well as ligands capable of binding to target proteins.

Full article by Gwendolyn Wu

Musk Sells X to xAI; Raises Questions, Concerns 🤨

Elon Musk announced he had sold social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to xAI, his artificial intelligence company.

While any changes to the platform have not yet been made clear, industry members have already raised concerns about potential privacy implications. In particular, there are fears over xAI accessing X users’ accounts to train its AI.

Data from the social media platform has already been used by xAI to train its AI models and chatbot Grok, with expectations for the deal to expand such activity.

Full article by Scarlett Evans (AI Business)