Autonomous agents, not chatbots

PLUS: Adobe vs Midjourney, Coding without your fingers and Luma's Unreal engine

Hey folks, Dharmesh (from yesterday’s email) told me to inform you all that he is a regular reader of Ben’s Bites. Hi Dharmesh 👋

In the past few weeks, everyone was creating an AI chatbot, now we’ve got autonomous agents that use AI to actually do stuff, not just write some text.

Also, let’s see how Adobe’s Firefly compares to Midjourney and which gaming giant has partnered with Luma (the 3D AI company).

Let’s get to it.

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🤌 Our Picks

Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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To all you coders out there who probably see more finger movement than most, it might be time to wave goodbye to clicky fingers and impending arthritis… Mckay Wrigley, one of Twitter’s most prolific projecteers (if it’s not a word, I’m coining it), has built an AI that initialises a project, designs and codes the entire app, manages the GitHub repo, and deploys it as a use-able website - all at the whim of a voice command.

This is no-code on steroids! It’s a little slow for now, but with the rapid improvements of implementation and speed in the AI space, this could be super fast in no time and, dare I say it, may form some kind of future. Anyway, click the link above and check out his video demo - it gave me shivers and goosebumps!

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If you want to just hit go and let an AI run wild on your computer, you can almost do just that. As I said, this idea of ‘autonomous’ GPT engines seems to be picking up a bit of attention lately with Auto-GPT. Give it a task, an end goal, and something to get it going and it’ll re-prompt itself again and again as it works towards the end product. Yep, it’ll autonomously develop and manage a business for you. With things like internet access, multimodal ChatGPT, and OpenAI’s Plugin Protocol, this really can run wild and get stuff done. But beware: if you leave it too long, it’ll just keep giving OpenAI money…

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When it comes to changing the game in 3D creations, Luma is on top of that. They announced a plugin for the Unreal Engine 5 Windows, where you can create 3D scenes with a drag-and-drop functionality using NeRFs.

These are full volumetric renderings that run locally on your machine. It is a completely different approach from the one used today with meshes, and it’ll allow studios (or indie devs) to create more cinematic shots and realistic scenes.

In short, look out for anything Luma does in the 3D AI space.

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • YC Interview AI - Conduct a mock YC interview entirely done via AI. (link)

  • Butternut AI - Create a website for your business in 20 seconds with AI. (link)

  • Unriddle - Your learning copilot. Interact with documents, simplify complex topics, ask questions, and get answers instantly. (link)

  • Neat demo exploring if GPT-4 and other models can do molecular algebra in chemistry. (link)

  • Create - Describe your idea and get automagically designed, built, and deployed web apps in minutes. (link) Currently in beta and funded by Uncork Capital.

  • Ava - Social platform to showcase all your AI-generated creations from Midjourney, Runway or Open AI. (link)

  • Official supported Python bindings for LLaMA CPP and GPT4all. (link)

  • Nimble - Intelligent AI-powered robots handle millions of objects to autonomously fulfil ecommerce orders. (link)

  • Askvet - The answer engine for animal health and care. (link)

  • Chat and learn about Twitter's recommendation algorithm. (link)

  • RapGPT - Create raps for a variety of situations by entering some details in a short quiz. (link)

  • FastChat - Chat with various fine-tuned versions of Meta’s LLaMA model in chatGPT style. (link)

  • Play.ht - Generative speech playground. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • Hallucinate vs fabricate - Using the correct words for LLM failures. (link)

  • Langchain adds new abstractions and better support for creating custom agents. (link)

  • A side-by-side comparison of GPT 4 and Bard on tasks that real humans want to use them for. (link, without paywall here)

  • Against AI doomerism, for AI progress. (link)

  • LM system organisation releases the weights of Vicuna-13B model. (link)

  • Reid Hoffman and Sam Altman chat about GPT4 across domains of creativity, education, and more. (link)

  • Stanford’s AI index 2023 - Measuring trends in artificial intelligence. (link)

  • Adobe’s Art vs Midjourney. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

  • SudoLang - A powerful pseudocode programming language for LLMs. (link)

  • Extract the tools & technologies a company is using from their career page. (link)

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📰 Unclassifieds

Short, sponsored links 

  • Replix helps you be your best self online. Write persuasive emails, snappy tweets, and thoughtful LinkedIn posts in just one click, powered by GPT-4. (link)

  • A step-by-step beginner’s training program on how to build an AI chatbot for your data. (link)

  • Root Ventures is organising an AI demo day in SF on April 14. Register here. (link)

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