AI News - June 2025 - Part 2

A quick overview of interesting AI News for the Yate and Sodbury U3A's monthly AI News meeting held on June 12th 2025 (meetings are second Thursday of month, 1400-1545, St John's Church Centre, Wickwar Road, Chipping Sodbury, UK - all welcome). Note that this is very much a summary to act as background as the topics are discussed in detail at the meeting itself. We also discuss and demonstrate other AI products and services and much more.

[9] AI Glasses Project Update

The first person using our 'loan Metas' has now purchased their own pair. A second person is now using the loan ones. We have now added a second loan pair, this time in contrasting style. Also we have had a pair of prescription lenses made for about £50 by Lensology for the first pair of Metas.

[10] Useful list of the best AI tools

[11] The most used AI services

ChatGPT continues to show a huge 'first mover' advantage.

[12.1] Robotic Dogs in industrial uses

For many uses they will be chosen as being more physically stable and less expensive than humanoids. Here is a typical industrial use.

[12.2] Robotic Dogs in military uses

[13.1] Ilya Sutskever talks to students about the impact of AI

[13.2] Demis Hassabis talks about era of maximum human flourishing

[13.3] Anthropic CEO expects them to pay tax to support unemployed workers.

He does not think sufficient well paying jobs will emerge.

[14] OpenAI tries to understand how ordinary people will feel about their ai companions

[15] Many new jobs will be created

Is he a 'shelf stacker' or a 'remote operator' and does one pay more than the other?

[16] Elon Musk and Donald Trump seem to have become friends again

End of June 2025 part 2. Link to June 2025 part 1

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