Welcome, humans.

In honor of Halloween, here’s Gordon Ramsay taking on Hollywood’s creepiest horror characters, and TBH, we don’t know who is scarier:

These AI Gordon videos are so popular, The Information ran a deep dive on the Chinese video generators behind them (Hailuo’s MiniMax, Kling, PixVerse, Vidu) and their early lead over U.S. competitors like Runway.

Speaking of, Runway just released Act One this weekend, which lets you turn any performance into an animated character or photorealistic avatar (check it out here!).

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• Google’s got an AI called Jarvis that can use your computer.

• Apple will release M4-powered Macs for AI features this week.

• Study revealed OpenAI’s Whisper fabricated content in 80% of transcripts.

• Redditors tried to trick Google AI with fake steakhouse reviews.

Google is building an agent called Jarvis that can use your computer like Claude can.

Remember Ask Jeeves? If you never used the internet in the 90s, it was like Google before Google, only worse.

Well, Google is now building “Jarvis”, an AI agent that can use your computer (like Claude now can), set to preview in December.

And yes, Jarvis is based on J.A.R.V.I.S, Tony Stark’s AI wingman.

Here’s how it’ll work:

• Jarvis will be a Google Chrome tool that takes screenshots and interprets your screen.

• It’ll take actions like clicking or typing to do your web tasks for you.

• Powered by Gemini 2.0 (also coming in December).

So, soon you’ll be able to “Ask Jarvis” to fill out your expense reports, re-order your necessities on Amazon, or even look up what Ask Jeeves was.

This is cool, but Google’s in last place here:

• OpenAI has been developing computer use since February.

• Anthropic just released it last week.

• Apple is working on AI that can control apps on your iPhone:

AI that can use your computer is the first form of “AI agent”, an AI that can take action on its own. Current “agents” from Microsoft and Salesforce require detailed instructions to set up, and aren’t intuitive enough for most people.

But there are SERIOUS security concerns. One programmer tested how easy it is to trick Claude into downloading malware through prompt injections.

After sophisticated attempts failed, he straight-up asked Claude to download and launch a disguised virus—and it worked. Watch him explain it here:

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Around the Horn.

• Apple launches a new line-up of Macs + Macbooks today that utilize the new M4 chip, which is meant to handle Apple’s upcoming AI features.

• A new study found made-up content in 80% of transcripts from OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool, which is used by 30K clinicians + 40 health systems.

• Redditors have begun to write fake reviews to trick Google’s AI Overview into recommending the chain “Angus Steakhouse” in London in order to drive long lines of tourists away from their favorite local steakhouses.

What gives it away that this is AI?

Your job is to tell us what about the video below gives it away as being AI. Click the link, watch the vid, and then answer the poll with your best take!

Here’s what #Neuron readers had to say about last week’s video:

• M.V: “The hand movements are too erratic, some are blurry, some are moving in weird directions. But when you don't see the hands, it's really hard to say that's it's not a real video.”

• C.B: “The back of the blue floral dress is white, the eye glasses are a bit modern, the birthday cake (back then it would be frosted completely), and everybody smoked back then so an ashtray at each table. Also the lady in the peach colored tank at the end, it looks like her finger placement is off.”

• D.T: “As always - AI has yet to solve the botox problem. There are hundreds of muscles in the face but these behave (although much better than it used to be) as if none of those muscles exist. So it feels oddly mechanical. And the colors are off. Whoever mimicked the films/videotape of 50 years ago needs some color management training.”

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