DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Edward Kane, Journalist

DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane

NISSAN HYPER URBAN - SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

Source: Nissan

Nissan will reveal several electric vehicle concepts at the Japan Mobility Show this month. The first is a small, sporty crossover EV called the Hyper Urban. Here's what we know:

It's designed to be parked in your home or apartment, instead of your garage
The design is distinguishably futuristic on the outside, lounge-like on the inside and points to the future direction of Nissan design
Target audience is urban/suburban professionals
Has neither door handles nor a rear window and its rear-view mirrors are cameras
Instrument panel is replaceable when newer ones become available
Has scissor doors
Collapsible front seats that convert into a sofa where a flip up screen can be used to watch videos
Nissan says the Hyper Urban has both "vehicle to home" and "vehicle to grid" functionalities with AI choosing when the vehicle exports power to the home or gets a charge from the grid
No word on powertrain details
This is expected to be an important new EV edition to Nissan's lineup.

WHEN AI CHATGPT IS THE SUNDAY PREACHER

Source: St. Paul's & Violet Crown City Churches

In both Bavaria, Germany and in Austin, Texas AI ChatGPT apps have done the preaching at Sunday church services. And parishioner reaction is accepting, mixed with robotic criticisms. Here are the facts:

AI ChatGPT is more than capable of creating and conducting a full Christian church service, as evidenced by recent AI services in Germany and Texas, which appear to be firsts for the US and Europe
At St. Paul Church in Bavaria, nearly 400 people worshipped with an AI ChatGPT avatar on a large screen above the altar who replaced the human pastor for the AI service
The service lasted 40 minutes with the AI creating the sermon, prayer and hymns
German theologian Jonas Simmerman used ChatGPT for the unique church service, 98% of which, he says, "came from the machine"
Meanwhile, in Austin, Texas, at the Violet Crown City Methodist Church, Pastor Jay Cooper used Open AI's ChatGPT to conduct a recent Sunday service, create the sermon, prayers and original songs
The pastor is a firm believer that religion shouldn't be frozen in the past but should utilize the latest technologies to get the message out, like AI
At both AI services, the congregations accepted and worshipped with the AI tech
The only limitations: the AI preachers lacked "heart and soul - the human element" and the avatars delivered their sermons in monotonous, robotic tones
With further technological advancements those shortcomings can be easily overcome
We could be at the dawn of AI preachers.

VISA OPENS ITS WALLET FOR AI INVESTING

Source: Visa & Stock

Visa is investing $100 million in startup companies developing generative AI technologies and apps that will impact "the future of commerce and payments". Here's what we know:

Visa just created a $100 million investment fund to bankroll new startups with promising new generative AI technologies and apps for the financial services sector
The funding for the selected startups will range from a few million dollars to substantially more
Generative AI is a very hot subset of AI that's trained on large sets of data to generate images, text and other content based on text prompts
Visa believes the potential of generative AI is about to explode way beyond content creation and specific tasks
It may have the potential to change the way we do business, make payments and participate in commerce, including b2b
Generative AI is being called by experts one of the most transformative technologies ever created
Visa is investing in pieces of this new action with promise for transforming commerce and the credit card industry.

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