Generative AI News This Week - Meta's AI Adventures, Bard on Assistant, MrBeast, Cohere, LinkedIn and More - Voicebot Podcast 355

Here is today’s Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown that kicks off
a new month and a new quarter. It looks like October is going to
be just as active as September. Featured stories this week
include:




Deepfake scams more frequent - Recent
deepfakes of MrBeast and Tom Hanks highlight the
proliferation of deepfake-fueled fraud and the lack of
detection tools on social media (and elsewhere, for that
matter).




The assistants rise again - Bard is
coming to Google Assistant, while Meta AI is a new assistant
that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to have much enthusiasm
for. What he is enthusiastic about is the new AI characters,
which are entertainment-oriented as opposed to the
productivity-focused Bard, ChatGPT, Claude, and so on. We
break down the different classes of assistants and what you
should actually expect from the marriage of Bard and Google
Assistant.




Generative AI winners and losers of the
week.


Generative AI News

Links to the stories we covered this week are included below.


Featured Stories of the Week




MrBeast and Tom Hanks Followers the Latest Victims of
Deepfake Scams




Bard Comes to Google Assistant




Meta AI is a Generative AI Assistant, but the AI Characters
Shift Focus to Entertainment




Generative AI Funding Fountain ️




Generative AI Learning Startup Gizmo Raises $3.5M




Ex-Tinder CEO’s Generative AI Relationship Mentor Startup
Meeno Raises $3.9M




Visa Creates $100M Generative AI Startup Investment Fund




Generative AI Product Garden 🪴




Cohere Rolls Out Enterprise Generative AI Chatbot API




LinkedIn Unveils Generative AI Hiring and Learning Tools




Meta: Generative AI features for ads coming to all
advertisers




Instagram Founders' Artifact News App Adds AI-Generated
Images, Gets More Confusing




Generative AI in the World




Facebook’s new AI-generated stickers are lewd, rude, and
occasionally nude


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