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🤖 MacBook Users Embrace AI Apps
PLUS: AI Decodes Ancient Roman Scrolls
James Roesser
October 17, 2023
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In today’s AI Report:
💻MacBook Users Embrace AI Apps
📜AI Decodes Ancient Roman Scrolls
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
MARKET RESEARCH
💻MacBook Users Embrace AI Apps
Setapp, an app subscription service, released an annual report examining the adoption of AI-based apps among MacBook users.
Key Details:
This survey is part of the company’s annual report on the state of MacBook apps. The report involved 1,241 global MacBook users.
The survey revealed that 42% of MacBook users report using AI-based apps daily, while 63% believe AI apps are more beneficial than standard apps.
MacBook app developers embrace AI, with 44% of engineers implementing AI tools or Machine Learning (ML) models.
The most used AI MacBook apps included TypingMind, Elephas, Spark, Notion, Grammarly, Craft, Luminar NEO, MacGPT, Asana, Raycast, and MacWhisper.
Product Lead at Setapp, Mykola Savin, explained: “We see how AI is transforming the app’s usage experience by providing additional user assistance.”
Why It’s Important:
AI apps are an essential component of daily workflows among MacBook users. On average, each user has 51 apps installed on their MacBook. Of those apps, users access 15 apps daily, and 42% contain AI tools.
Apple is adding generative AI models to various aspects of their software features, like the MacOS operating system, which offers powerful applications like Safari, Mail, Calendar, Photos, and Notes.
AI ARCHAEOLOGY
📜AI Decodes Ancient Roman Scrolls
Luke Farritor, a 21-year-old computer science major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, developed a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm that deciphers Greek letters from burned scrolls and sculptures.
Key Details:
Mount Vesuvius buried hundreds of scrolls in 79 AD, when the eruption forced Herculaneum under 20 meters of volcanic ash. Early attempts to unroll the scrolls resulted in crumpled fragments.
The fragile scrolls can’t be physically unrolled. The ink on the older Herculaneum scrolls is carbon-based, essentially charcoal and water, with the same density in computerized tomography (CT) scans as the papyrus (i.e., paper) it sits on, so it doesn’t show up at all.
Farritor developed a Machine Learning (ML) model that detected several topography lines on the rolled-up papyrus. He relied on subtle, small-scale differences in surface texture to train his neural networks.
Federica Nicolardi, a papyrologist at the University of Naples in Italy, described Farritor’s findings: “It was such a dream. Now, I can see something from the inside of a scroll.”
Why It’s Important:
Farritor’s AI model allows historians to access invaluable insights into ancient culture, societal structure, political systems, technological advancements, and everyday life.
Digitally resurrecting fragments of ancient texts allows us to preserve cultural heritage, advance linguistic studies, and unveil technological advancements.
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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding.
Nirvana secures $57M to make AI inroads into commercial trucking insurance.
Reality Defender raises $15M to detect text, video, and image deepfakes.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
Anthropic (San Francisco, CA): Data Analyst, Trust and Safety
Shield AI (San Diego, CA): Sensing Engineering Intern, Summer 2024
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