Have you been a Bard boy?!

PLUS: a new paradigm in software and LLM for finance.

Hey folks, it’s Friday and it’s pissing it down here in the UK, or, raining cats and dogs as we like to say.

Today we have; the roundup on the AI pause, AI WordArt is pretty nostalgic and great, Google accusations of a bad Bard, and single-use software—which doesn’t sound exciting but I think we’ll see lots of one-time software applications being built because of AI.

Have a great weekend—my dad and I are doing a Beef Wellington masterclass at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant. I can’t wait to finally learn how to scream at others in the kitchen. Hope my dad can take it.

Let’s get to it.

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🤌 Our Picks

Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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Your full roundup from the pause AI debate (we had two versions of this pick, but went for the shorter one for sanity’s sake)

Gary Marcus responded to the criticism. He made many fair points, but the crux: we can’t just sit and do nothing.

But Emad Mostaque (CEO of Stable Diffusion’s parent company) chimed in, saying that no one can instantly train larger than GPT-4 models anyway, because the time to set up such hardware will take 6-9 months.

Add Eliezer Yudkowsky to the equation. He was on Lex Fridman’s podcast and again warns that there’s no second chance with AI alignment. We fail, we die.

Talking of petitions, they just keep on coming! The team at LAION, a non-profit aiming to make AI open, released their petition for governments to build a global CERN for AI research i.e. keep going, baby.

I know, too many links on one story, right? Just chill, read this one, and thank me on Twitter.

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Time for you creative folk to grab the limelight on these picks again, and this time it’s all about Firefly, the exciting new generative AI approach from Adobe that got released a few weeks ago.

One of my fav hackers in the community got access and uploaded a neat little intro vid, and I can’t wait to keep showing off AI to all my designer friends after watching. The Text-to-Effects tool is like Microsoft’s Word Art on steroids, somehow giving me both a blast from the past of my childhood and making me feel like I’m in the future.

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Has Google been a naughty little boy Bard? According to an ex-employee who moved to OpenAI, the team building Bard (Google’s version of ChatGPT) has been scraping data they shouldn’t be. That data is OpenAI’s ChatGPT conversational data, shared on a site called ShareGPT.

Google denied the claims saying, “Bard is not trained on any data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT.” 

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We’re in a new age of single-use software

Looking for the tools today, I fell into this rabbit hole of incredible people talking about single-use software. Geoffrey from MIT’s AI lab refers to it as malleable software (which we covered on Monday). Others extended the idea in a similar spirit on how it will impact UI design, naming it dynamic UI.

And all of this discussion has led builders to build out these functionalities.

Check out

  • This GPT-4 powered IDE creates UI on demand to fit your exact development needs (link), or

  • This demo for generating a full-fledged UI with just a simple text prompt (link)

The type of links I love to click on—building and sharing ideas in the community.

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • Marvin - Integrate AI directly into your codebase like any other function. (link)

  • Kittl AI - 10x your design skills with AI-based vector editing. (link)

  • Anthropic’s Claude is in Slack now. (link) pssst Ben’s Bites workspace got it too, so disclaimer: Claude didn’t write this.

  • Spline AI - Design faster with the help of prompts. (link)

  • HerbGPT - Say goodbye to the guesswork and join the future of personalised cannabis consumption. (link)

  • Ask Rewind - Ask any question about anything with a perfect memory. (link)

  • Domains GPT - Generate brandable & memorable domain names using AI. (link)

  • Build a simple locally hosted version of ChatGPT in less than 100 lines of code. (link)

  • Beam - Work chat redefined for modern product teams with AI automating communication. (link)

  • ShellShark: an agent that swims through your infra to; set up/modify infrastructure, and examine and debug services with auditable logs. (link)

  • Baseplate - Backend for LLM apps. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • An interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about the AI product revolution. (link)

  • The winning formula for building AI-first products with Dave Rogenmoser. (link)

  • Vinod Khosla, the veteran VC, on how AI will free humanity from the need to work. (link)

  • Midjourney is allowing fake images go mainstream with few rules. (link, without paywall here)

  • Generative AI - Revolutionising the way enterprises work. Report from Nvidia. (link)

  • Data-centric ML benchmarking - Announcing DataPerf’s 2023 challenges. (link)

  • Fixie raises $17m to connect chatGPT to your enterprise applications. (link)

  • HuggingGPT - Research on solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and HuggingFace. (link)

  • Yeah, of course, YC’s winter class is oozing with AI companies. (link)

  • How will LLMs change the shape of our product teams? (link)

  • Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier, on Zapier's LLM-powered future. (link)

  • Socket Security is scaling its malware detection service with ChatGPT to scan the entire npm registry. (link) Some interesting detections here.

  • Altman vs. Musk: OpenAI treads on Tesla’s robot turf with investment in Norway’s 1X. (link)

  • Open AI might’ve intentionally limited GPT's power in an attempt to manage AGI take-off risks. (link)

  • BloombergGPT - A large language model for finance. 50B parameters and probably the largest domain-specific model. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

  • Optimising large language models for cost efficiency. For those of you who hit the hard limit with GPt-4. (link)

  • A primer on foundation models. (link)

  • All the literature to catch up on the state of AI in language model space, summarised in one place. Does a good job of capturing changes over the past many years. (link)

  • Walkthrough of using ChatGPT to create code for artwork inspired by the work of Agnes Martins. (link)

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📰 Unclassifieds

Short, sponsored links 

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