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In today’s Brainyacts:

1. AI Video is 10x’ing quickly

2. Voice-to-voice AI interactions

3. Apple’s AI coming in June and other AI model news

4. 100 AI bills in 40 states and other AI-related content

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Lead Memo

🤮 🛑 You are likely sick of me talking deepfakes but . . .

These two videos below are the latest in generative AI videos. Both are 100% AI. While cool, this has grave implications for misuse, misinformation, and mass chaos.

I am always sharing this with you dear reader because:

1. I want you to stay way ahead of the curve as to the state of the art in this realm

2. We need people thinking about the implications for both society and also the legal profession - specifically the administration of justice in the courts

3. I don’t want any of you falling victim to scams using AI videos that are spreading like viruses

PREDICTION: Soon we will see a deepfake avatar of a real person attending a Zoom meeting with colleagues and they will not know.

Fake Obama via https://www.argil.ai/

Full body motion fake via https://www.heygen.com/

Spotlight

🗣️🎙️ Voice-to-voice AI

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Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) is a revolutionary technology that captures emotions from voice, making interactions with AI much more human-like. With EVI, you can experience responses in human-like tones of voice that react to your expressions and address your needs.

EVI's state-of-the-art end-of-turn detection uses your tone of voice to know when to speak, and it can even pause when interrupted and pick up where it left off.

Over time, EVI can self-improve by noticing your reactions to its responses. EVI is currently in preview, but developers can apply for early access to the API.

Hume, the company behind EVI, recently raised a $50M series B.

Here is a short video on my first interaction with EVI.

AI Model Notables

► 👆👆 Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers to gauge the relative capabilities of AI language models

► OpenAI is making links more prominent when ChatGPT browses the internet giving more context to its responses and making it easier for users to discover content from publishers and creators

► Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment

► Apple Set to Unveil AI Strategy at June 10 Developers Conference

► Grok (X/Twitter) will be enabled for all premium subscribers (not just premium+)

► Elon also announced the forthcoming release of Grok 1.5

► Microsoft Teams is getting smarter Copilot AI features

► PwC in alliance with ContractPodAi to launch legal GenAI platform Leah for contracts

► Microsoft creates tools to stop users from tricking chatbots

News You Can Use:

➭ 👆👆To get value from AI, you need data - but legal teams don’t see a need for any type of data expert

➭ More than 100 bills in 40 state legislatures were introduced or passed this year trying to regulate artificial intelligence’s potential to produce election disinformation

➭ EU warns election deepfakes start to surface in member nations

➭ Team Biden unveils comprehensive policy for federal AI use: Here's what it entails

➭ The BBC is exploring the sale of its content archive to technology companies for AI training data, seeking new revenue streams

Who is the author, Josh Kubicki?

Some of you know me. Others do not. Here is a short intro. I am a lawyer, entrepreneur, and teacher. I have transformed legal practices and built multi-million dollar businesses. Not a theorist, I am an applied researcher and former Chief Strategy Officer, recognized by Fast Company and Bloomberg Law for my unique work. Through this newsletter, I offer you pragmatic insights into leveraging AI to inform and improve your daily life in legal services.