Artificial intelligence is reshaping the way we use our smartphones, making everyday tasks faster and easier. From smart assistants that streamline your day to apps that allow you to make changes to pictures, AI powered apps can be very useful. So now, let’s explore some must have AI apps that can help boost productivity, enhance creativity, and do much more.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is almost synonymous with the term AI now. OpenAI revolutionized the way we interact with AI, making it a notable name among the sea of AI apps in the market. With a simple prompt, users can get instant answers, help with their problems, straight solutions, and much more. Thanks to the powerful GPT-4o model, the platform has also become a lot more capable. The app includes features such as voice interaction, allowing for real-time conversations, photo uploads, and can even understand handwritten notes, identify objects, and landmarks with ease. It has consistently been one of the most popular apps for both Android and iOS devices.

Google Photos

While there are plenty of Android phones that support features like Magic Eraser for object removal, certain lower end devices and Apple iPhones can benefit greatly from Google Photos AI powered tools. It allows you to remove unwanted objects or subjects in your pictures. Apple is currently testing a feature similar to Magic Eraser, but it has yet to catch up with Google’s picture clean up technology. The feature is simple to use and great accessibility but requires you to have an internet connection.

Perplexity

Perplexity AI chatbot is one of the best in the market. The Perplexity AI assistant has been touted for its reliability, up to date answers, and capable search feature. The Thread Follow-Up feature allows users to also maintain ongoing conversations for comprehensive understanding. But one of its greatest aspects is undoubtedly the tool’s commitment to transparency with cited sources for every answer. This makes it perfect for students, researchers, and those who require a more in-depth access to the source materials.

Leonardo AI

Another tool that has recently risen in popularity is Leonardo AI. It is a powerful AI powered tools that employ machine learning to create images, videos, and designs similar to OpenAI’s Dall-E. This AI app is also completely free to download and has a simple UI, which lets you get into image generation quickly and easily. It also has a gallery of creations where users can share these generated images as well. Owing to its popularity, people have already created over 700 million AI artworks already.

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WAIC 2019 in China

World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2019 (WAIC 2019) in Shanghai just closed at the end of August. With the last day when it opened to the masses of visitors, it probably marked a critical point of the development of China AI industry. The whole country is showing enormous enthusiasm and energy for the new revolution, from the government to the mass, from manufacturers to internet companies. Under the background of China-US trade war, the economic conflict is spreading rapidly to other fields, especially the technology competition. At WAIC 2019, it’s widely received that AI technology is growing as the most important part of the future of human society. Tracing back to the last three industrial revolutions, the western world has played a vital leading role and decided how human beings live on this planet. However, in recent years China has developed rapidly in the manufacture, internet, and technology and accumulated solid technological infrastructure due to its enormous market and effective government supports.

At WAIC 2019, we noticed that the integration among manufacturers, big data, network & communication has been starting well distributed to promote more deep cooperation in the field of AI. Not just the domestics, the globalized participation was also a significant process at WAIC 2019. For example, the international giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Tesla brought their self-developed AI solutions to the exhibition primarily because of the enormous China market. And China AI companies are also proactive to establish cooperation and joint laboratories with oversea research institutions.

‘Dual-Ma (Pinyin) Talk’ -Jack Ma&Elon Musk 

At the opening ceremony of the WAIC 2019, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Alibaba founder Jack Ma had a most-watched talk on AI development. During the talk, they showed completely different views on AI development.

‘The biggest mistake that AI researchers are making is assuming they are intelligent. They are not. AI is vastly smarter.’

-Elon Musk

Elon Musk more mentioned that researchers are underestimating how powerful AI is. He seems to concern more about whether human society can take the boomerang effect of AI.

AI is going to open a new chapter of the society of the world that people try to understand ourselves better, rather than the outside world.

99.99% of the prediction that human beings had in history about the future is all wrong. Only 0.001% of the predictions are right. They are right because by accident.

-Jack Ma

Jack Ma, oppositely, showed more of his confidence in AI as an entrepreneur. As being through the rapid development of China internet, Jack Ma presented an optimistic attitude as most China AI companies have.

Their discussion presented two voices which are commonly heard from both the academics and industry. Their companies are important powers to AI development. Especially for Tesla, their Autopilot has been applied in thousands of Tesla cars as an assistant self-driving system. While for Alibaba, their advantage of consumer-market data helps them build up a mature financial AI service system, Ant Financial. At least from their current focus, Tesla is an industrial manufacturer integrating the AI software and car hardware together for general users, while Alibaba is a successful internet service provider who tries to integrate AI technology to serve more business participators. For their business, they do have something in common. For example, they both are paying much attention to the China market, the biggest single market in the world covering over 1/5 population of the planet. The fast proceedings of Tesla Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai have deepened the cooperation between Tesla and China, which is also the reason why Musk hailed China as ‘the future’.

AI applications in 2019

At WAIC 2019, most AI companies brought their AI solutions or products to the exhibition, such as Huawei’s AI chips, Tesla’s Model 3, Deepblue’s AI bus and AI Retail, ABB’s AI manufacture robots and so on. It’s pretty predictable from the various application that AI will enter all aspects of our life very soon but not just existing as a kind of algorithm in our phones. Though AI is still in a very early stage, the AI providers now are more thinking a wider application. It’s also why both Jack Ma and Elon Musk agreed the rapid and powerful development of AI.

Another hot topic of WAIC 2019 is the breakthrough of 5G communication technology. Equipped with 5G-enabled real-time remote, AI companies were bringing more human-life applications with faster data transmission and multiple interaction modes. For example, the 5G AI road cleaner developed by Deepblue has been able to help urban administrators monitor public services such as real-time traffic, and then reach prompt reaction with AI. Now it has been developing as an important part of the concept of AI CITY.

AI dilemma 

Another thing worth noticing is that there is a controversy when a company showed their AI monitoring and analysis of student classes. They integrated their AI with the class monitor cameras and analyzed their behaviors. It was claimed that their AI would help educators improve their teaching quality. But on the China internet, they were challenged that it was an invasion of students’ privacy. Recently the company responded that it’s just a concept display of one of the AI applications and they will stick to the principle of data privacy protection. The controversy reveals a common dilemma-how AI researchers and providers guarantee the legitimacy in their applicational process.

As various applications of AI have been brought into reality, how to distinguish their legitimacy is also becoming an important topic of AI development.

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