AI Helps Catch a Drug Dealer

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👮 Cop uses AI to help catch a drug dealer

Police in New York recently managed to identify and apprehend a drug trafficker seemingly by magic. The perp in question, David Zayas, was traveling through the small upstate town of Scarsdale when he was pulled over by Westchester County police. When cops searched Zayas’ vehicle they found a large amount of crack cocaine, a gun, and over $34,000 in cash in his vehicle. The arrestee later pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge.

😬 AI startup Jasper cuts staff

Jasper, a generative AI startup that raised $125 million in a Series A round at a valuation of $1.5 billion just nine months ago has cut staff, its co-founder and CEO Dave Rogenmoser announced in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday.

Explaining the decision, he stated, “While we’ve served many different use-cases through all of this, we’ve seen that Jasper is at its best when helping marketing teams at mid-size and enterprise companies. We’ve come to realize however, that for us to have the fuel and focus we need to fully go after that opportunity, we need to reshape our own team.”

💰 Meta claims its new art-generating model is best-in-class

Over the past two years, AI-powered image generators have become commodified, more or less, thanks to the widespread availability of — and decreasing technical barriers around — the tech. They’ve been deployed by practically every major tech player, including Google and Microsoft, as well as countless startups angling to nab a slice of the increasingly lucrative generative AI pie.

That isn’t to suggest they’re consistent yet, performance-wise — far from it. While the quality of image generators has improved, it’s been an incremental, sometimes agonizing progress.

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I have a Python script that is failing with a syntax error. Here is the code. Can you help me understand what's going wrong and how to fix it?

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Here is a Python function I wrote to sort a list. Can you help me optimize it?

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I have a Ruby function here, but I need to use it in a JavaScript project. Can you help me translate it?

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🔨 Cool AI Tools

• Buni AI: All-in-one AI generator – link

• ReadSpeaker: Lifelike Text to Speech for Your Users – link

• AI:JD: Effortlessly create customized job descriptions in under 90 seconds – link

• guidde: A generative AI platform for business that helps your team create video documentation 11x faster – link

🎨 AI Art of the Day: If [x liquor] was a human being

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