AI Tidbits – Critterz, Bots, and Ralph Lauren’s Stylist AI – This Week in AI

AI Tidbits – Critterz, Bots, and Ralph Lauren’s Stylist AI – This Week in AI

Another Tuesday, another whirlwind of AI updates 🚀 — from learning how to learn, to bots taking over the internet, to Ralph Lauren’s new AI stylist. Let’s dive in…

 

📚 LEARN to LEARN

The #1 skill for the next generation? Learning how to learn.

Speaking in Athens, Demis Hassabis (CEO of Google DeepMind) said this will be the differentiator in an AI-driven world. The old rhythm of learning a single skill and working with it for 5–10 years is fading fast. Now, workers and students need to track developments constantly, adapt quickly, and find new ways to stand out if they want to thrive.

👉 Takeaway: Stay curious, keep experimenting, and remember — learning doesn’t end with school, it begins there.

 

💡 Check this prediction!

“I actually expect us to have more things to do,” says Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang.

Contrary to the doomsday “AI-will-kill-all-jobs” narrative, Huang believes AI and robotics will multiply human productivity while keeping us busier than ever. It’s not just about replacement, but redefinition.

Worth a short read:
🔗 AI-will-actually-make-us-busier-in-the-future

 

🍌 Nano Banana Templates

If you’re playing around with Nano Banana for your image edits, here are some ready-to-use templates to make your life easier:
🔗 Nano Banana Templates on Twitter

 

🖼️ LM Arena

A handy place to test multiple LLMs side by side and pick the best result. Bonus: it also supports fast image generation with pretty solid quality.

⚠️ Caveat: LM Arena doesn’t store previous chats or instructions, and all activity is public domain. So don’t paste anything confidential.

👉 Try it here: https://lmarena.ai/
(Thanks Suhani for the tip 😊)

 

🎬 “Critterz” — The AI Film Milestone

Hollywood, meet AI. Critterz, an AI-assisted animated feature film, is on track to prove that movies can be made faster, cheaper, and still be creative.

 

📌 The plan:

• 9 months to completion (vs. 3 years traditionally)
• Sub-$30M budget (vs. hundreds of millions)
• Human actors for voiceovers
• Artists for concept sketches
• AI (GPT-5 + image models) for the bulk of the animation

🎥 Question to you: Knowing it’s AI-made, would you watch it?

 

🤖 Bots here – Bots there – Bots everywhere!

The 2024 Imperva Threat Research Report shows that almost 50% of internet traffic is non-human. Bad bots alone make up one-third, often indistinguishable from real users.

Sam Altman adds his two cents:

• Humans themselves are starting to “sound like AI models” online 😅
• Social media fuels extreme, fast-moving trends
• Monetization incentives shape what gets posted
• Astroturfing (fake grassroots activity) by bots is already happening

Are we still surfing the web… or stuck in a simulation? 🤔

 

📊 Claude Update: Work Made Easier

Claude can now generate and edit docs, spreadsheets, slides, and PDFs directly within the app. Think of it as your office suite in a chatbox.

Currently in preview for Max, Team, and Enterprise users — with Pro access expected soon.

 

👗 Ask Ralph (Yes, the fashion house)

Ralph Lauren just launched Ask Ralph, an AI fashion stylist built with Microsoft + OpenAI.

It’s live on the U.S. app:

• Suggests outfits 👔👗
• Answers style questions
• Pulls from decades of Ralph Lauren’s archives

Sure, v1 won’t be perfect — but this could evolve into a personal stylist that lives in your pocket. Basically, your posh AI bestie with better taste than you.

 

✅ That’s a wrap for this week’s AI Tidbits. Keep learning, keep experimenting, and keep your curiosity switched on.