AI tracker: Do you need an AI butler to make life easier?

Manus, your AI butler Manus, a new Chinese artificial intelligence agent billed as able to work independently from humans, has sent insiders buzzing— some with concern and others with disappointment, AFP reported. The Butterfly Effect startup has been working for the past year on its AI digital assistant Manus, co-founder Yichao “Peak” Ji said in a launch video posted on YouTube.The company bills Manus as a “general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions” that “excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.” It acts as a personal assistant and can be trained to specialise in your area of work. And Carl, your research assistant Meet Carl, an AI system created by the Mountain View, California-based Autoscience Institute, a research lab that builds AI systems to improve AI systems. The new AI system successfully designed and performed experiments and wrote multiple academic papers that passed peer review at workshops in the International Conference on Learning Representations on the Tiny Papers track, the institute revealed on its website.