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Banning ChatGPT

PLUS: an email summariser and draft reply writer.

Ben Tossell
January 16, 2023

Hello and welcome to the 2,151 new readers joining since last week. This is Ben's Bites.

Hope you all had a great weekend. My parents visited so lots of eating and drinking was involved. My highlight? My dad confidently saying "Drop Mic" instead of "Mic drop". He tried so hard to get a recent reference in and tripped at the finish line.

Let's get to it.

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I built a simple tool for email. Get emails summarised and a draft reply written, using AI. I saw a tweet that was asking for this and knew it could be done with Zapier + OpenAI so I built it in like 10 minutes. You could build this out and make it better or more accurate but it's a great step. I may do similar for organising my emails too. (link)

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I'm loving how much Dan Shipper is diving into AI and running a bunch of experiments. "GPT-3 is the best journal I’ve ever used". Some key takeaways: GPT-3 can be used to create a written record, and can provide support similar to that of an empathic friend, Chatbots can be great for journaling, as they can help you get your thoughts out of your head, increase self-awareness, and create a record of your journey, and GPT-3 can be used to take on the persona of a compassionate figure, or to act as a bot well-versed in various therapy modalities. (link)

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"Don’t ban ChatGPT in schools. Teach with it." A new article from the New York Times looking into the recent debate around AI and students. Personally I think it's just a new thing that people don't understand fully, so they're scared. Schools should definitely embrace this and try and include it in their lessons. Kids will always have access to these tools through their phones, denying its existence and ignoring its potential would be like not allowing kids to use computers in school. (link)

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🛠️ Cool Tools

Albus for MS Teams - Your GPT-3 powered personal AI teammate inside MS Teams. (link)
Getaiway - Plan your dream trip in 1 minute. (link)
Blubi - Transform the way you showcase your content from static to engaging with an AI-powered chatbot. (link)
TableTalk - A better way to interact with your database in a familiar chat-like interface. (link)
Operand for Teams - Adds extra results to Google by searching through the apps your team uses for work. (link)
Scribble AI - Effortlessly generate text with Open AI's GPT. iOS app only. (link)
PaperBrain - A platform to access and understand research papers. (link)
Magic Thumbnails - Just put in a video title and description, and let the AI generate Youtube thumbnails. (link)
Dr Doc Search - A fully open-source pipeline and web app for conversing with PDFs. (link)
GPT for Sheets - Get help with inspiration, categorisation, translation, correction, and summarisation with the GPT function. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

Google Cloud introduces shelf inventory AI tool for retailers. (link)
Scientists, please don’t let your chatbots grow up to be co-authors. (link)
This model does not exist - An AI-generated Model posts daily photos on Instagram based on upvotes. (link)
Every Google vs OpenAI argument, dissected. (link)
Co-writing with AI - A guide for curious authors. (link)
Are large language models (LLMs) going to kill Google? Probably not. (link)
What is the self-driving car of NLP? (link)
Apply for Replit’s first machine learning hackathon. (link)