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#46 Stop eating ultra-processed food
AND: The Instagram experience is about to change
The AI Plug
June 12, 2023
Have you ever heard the phrase, “You are what you eat?” With each new day, there’s more research proving how diet is one of the most important things in your life. But recently, an AI algorithm confirmed that 73% of U.S. foodstuffs are of the “diabetes-and cancer-inducing ultra-processed” variety.
Want to get healthier? Want to be happier? Want to live longer? Then stay away from these foodstuffs. Let’s dive in.
In today’s newsletter:
Top News: Instagram’s 30 new personalities, 73% of U.S. food system is “ultra-processed” (yikes), and AI meets crypto to democratize and decentralize the industry
TL;DR Rundown: Converting brain activity to text, more science denial from AI, and Replika users match with sexy AI chatbots
Tool of the day: Never fear the hairdresser ever again
Trickery: It takes cookies and chihuahuas to confuse the modern machine
Top News 🔝
Three biggest stories if you’re in a rush
Do you like ice cream? How about soda, salami, sausages, cereal, or biscuits? If you do, you’re not alone - these are among the most widely consumed foods in the U.S. But therein lies the problem, as these foods are all “ultra-processed” and are closely tied to increased risks of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, breast and colorectal cancer, and premature death.
Astoningshly, a new AI algorithm, FoodProX, confirms that over 73% of the U.S. food system is ultra-processed. This highlights the dangers of our modern diet. Using nutritional labeling information provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies as inputs, FoodProX categorizes any foodstuff as “minimally processed, primarily processed, moderately processed, and ultra-processed.”
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Did you know dissociative identity disorder (DID), a rare condition where patients “experience identities that function independently of each other,” affects roughly 1.5% of the global population?
Did you also know that Instagram has over 2.35B monthly users? Leading us to approximate (with great uncertainty, mind you) that there might be ~35M Instagrammers with some degree of DID in their daily lives?
Following Alessandro Paluzzi’s tweet from last week, which reveals Instagram’s intentions to release an AI chatbot offering over 30 different personalities, we can say (with slightly more certainty) that DID-impacted Instagram users could be on the rise soon. Instagram’s potential chatbot will be available to make suggestions for creativity, and even be used in DM’s.
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As you know, training and running AI systems like ChatGPT is ludicrously expensive (think $700,000 per day expensive). This financial barrier prevents all but the biggest corporations from competing in the AI race - until now.
Gensyn AI aims to “connect all of the machine-learning-capable-computer-hardware in the world” and make it accessible to engineers, researchers, and academics.
As Edward Snowden said regarding why AI training should be decentralized and permissionless last year, “We cannot have a new clergy who get to interpret the gospel and decide whether or not a layperson gets access.”
TL;DR Rundown 🐂
Summary of note-worthy trending articles
Science denial? What’s that? And how can AI encourage it? (link)
An imagined (but scarily realistic) campaign where AI undermines democracy and the will of voters. (link)
ChatGPT not-so-funny: 25 jokes repeated over and over again. (link)
In a rare display of cooperation, Republicans and Democrats team up to tackle AI with new bills. (link)
When AI enters the concert hall: Some composers are worried; others are intrigued. We’re both. (link)
The pay for these AI jobs will BLOW YOUR MIND (as much as 375k per year!) (link)
AI can now translate brain activity into a continuous text. (link)
If only they’d stayed together - an artist uses AI to create what-if offspring images of famously broken-up celebrity couples. (link)
“The people who could actually pause AI if they wanted to” - Signal’s Meredith Whittaker weighs in on AI regulation talks. (link)
Dating app that turn’s users into a Chatbot to screen potential dates. (link)
Meta’s new suite of AI products coming to WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. (link)
South Korean market rally spurred by AI euphoria and confidence in electric vehicles. (link)
Replika’s new AI app is like Tinder but instead of other human users, it with sexy chatbots. (link)
Tool of the Day ⚒️
AI tools we’ve used, loved, and highly recommend
Today’s tool is hairstyleai.com.
Getting your hair cut can be petrifying - especially if you’re going for a new look. But it needn’t be any longer.
For a meager $9 one-time-payment, Hairstyleai.com is the fastest and easiest way to see which hairstyle works for you. Simply upload selfies, and the AI photographer generates new hairstyles, which you can take to your hairdresser of choice.
How to confuse a machine?
It takes cookies AND chihuahuas to trick these modern machines
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