#10 "The Age of AI has begun"- Bill Gates
How AI will affect jobs, App Store for ChatGPT and much more...
The first step towards AGI- ChatGPT plugins
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🛠️ Tools
Canva AI features [link]
Microsoft Loop [link]
GitHub Copilot X- [link]
Adobe Firefly [link]
Runway Gen2 [link]
Rewind ChatGPT for Me [link]
📑 Developments
Open AI launches plugins for ChatGPT [link]
Google gives early access to Bard [link]
NVIDIA unveils Large Language Models and Generative AI service [link]
Microsoft Research studies AGI capabilities of GPT-4 [link]
OpenAI studies Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs [link]
Stanford Alpaca, a cheaper alternative to OpenAI’s text-davinci-003 [link]
+ 🐣 Thoughts
Bill Gates on AI, Sam Altman on AI, a16z’s take on AI x Travel, Sequoia’s AI Market Map, and more.
+ 🥷 Random
From ordering avocados to saving on airfare, what all can happen with ChatGPT plugins
🛠️ Tools
Canva introduces AI features at CanvaCreate
Earlier this week, we dropped 10 unopened gifts onto the Canva homepage of 120 million people across the globe. Today, we unwrapped them on the stage at #CanvaCreate. canva.me/10_GiftsMagic Write- AI-powered writing assistant.
Freehand drawing
Magic Design- Upload image > chose from a selection of templates for that image
Magic edit & erase- Add, replace, or erase things in your images
Magic design- Create the first draft of the presentation by describing your idea
Beat sync- Auto match soundtrack to footage
Make your own animation- Drag elements across the screen and watch them spring to life
Brand Hub- to set up and manage brand
Translate- text in your design can now be translated into over 100 languages
Text to image- bring images in your head to life
Microsoft Loop- Microsoft’s answer to Notion
Loop is a project collaboration tool, outside of the Office suits but linked to it. It also has the AI Copilot module built into it.
GitHub Copilot X- brings chat and voice interfaces, supports pull requests, and answers questions on docs.
Adobe Firefly- generative AI model for creatives
With the beta version of the first Firefly model, you can use everyday language to generate extraordinary new content.
Runway Gen2- Generate videos with words
Runway ML Gen2 is a multi-modal AI system that can generate novel videos with text, images, or video clips.
Rewind ChatGPT for Me- ask about anything you have seen, heard, or read.
🐣 Thoughts
Bill Gates writes about AI in Health, Education, its risks, and the next frontiers. [Hot take]
Read it here [link]
Sam Altman on “How AI will reshape society” [Interview]
a16z’s take on opportunities in AI x Travel [Blog]
Read the blog here [link]
Sequoia Capital’s latest AI Market Map [Blog]
Read the blog here [link]
📑 Developments
OpenAI announces ChatGPT plugins [Launch]
Google Bard, early access in US & UK [Update]
NVIDIA unveils Large Language Models and Generative AI service to advance life sciences R&D [Launch]
NVIDIA AI Foundations are cloud services that provide enterprises with a simplified approach to build and run their custom generative AI, starting with state-of-the-art foundation models for text language, visual media, and the language of biology.
Watch the keynote here [link]Microsoft Research studies Artificial General Intelligence capabilities of GPT-4 [Research]
Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, the research team believes that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system.
Read the paper here [link]
OpenAI study on Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs like GPT 3/4 [Research]
80% of U.S. workforce may have 10%+ of their tasks affected. 19% may have 50%+ tasks impacted, and higher-income jobs are most exposed.
Read the paper here [link]
OpenAI decided to discontinue support for the Codex API, but overwhelming demand for the product made them flip. [News]
Luma AI raises a $20 Million Series A to democratize 3D [Funding]
Read it here [link]
Stanford ALPACA, the ChatGPT AI for less than $600 [News]
Read it here [link]
🥷 Random
ChatGPT helped win a Hackathon
A team from cybersecurity firm Claroty used the AI bot to write code to exploit vulnerabilities in industrial systems
Can an algorithm predict whether a startup will successfully exit? PitchBook believes so.
PitchBook’s new tool uses AI to predict which startups will successfully exit.
Read it here [link]
Some early tests for Google Bard
Builders in the AI right now, we had almost made it to Thursday without a major launch!
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