Ditch coffee, get yourself an AI

Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

 Our picks 

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We have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work. In a new study with BCG consultants, there are significant improvements by using AI in work. Consultants using AI finished 12.2% more tasks on average, completed tasks 25.1% more quickly, and produced 40% higher quality results than those without. Here’s the paper.

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Faster than Llama 2: Introducing DeciLM. Deci AI’s new foundation model has comparable performance on benchmarks with Falcon 7B, MPT-7B, and Llama2 7B, but it’s about 4.8x faster than Llama 2 (on PyTorch) and 15x faster using their own inference SDK. It has 5.7B parameters and is open to download under the same license as Llama 2.

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The executive trying to make Microsoft smarter about AI. WSJ has done a profile on Kevin Scott, Microsoft’s CTO who led their partnership with OpenAI. Kevin’s relatively new to the company (joined 7 years ago) and together with Satya Nadella, he helped convince Bill Gates to their bet on OpenAI.

 From the community 

• Intersections of crypto and AI technology with NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin.

• 11 ways Zapier employees use AI.

• Using generative AI for data analysis and visualization.

• How to use AI in business operations with Rachel Woods.

• Thursday nights in AI with LlamaIndex CEO Jerry Liu.

• Friend of the Bites, Mayo is looking for professional freelance devs who have experience working on AI projects.

• Using ChatGPT custom instructions for fun and profit.

• Why open source AI will win.

• Vercel's new AI writes surprisingly good code.

• Playground AI tutorial - Interior design concepts made easy.

• What we learned building a call summary app with GPT-4.

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Sounds.studio - A simple interface for cutting-edge AI music tools.

• ChatKG - Create knowledge graphs with your own API key.

• Partykit - Open source deployment platform for AI agents with multiplayer and local first apps.

• Screenwriter - Automate UI testing instantly with no code.

• Simon Wilson’s LLMs from command line tool gets embeddings support.

• JSON data AI - Get JSON data about anything, depending on your prompt.

• Brainglue - Playground for building powerful prompt chains to solve complex problems.

• Fit Senpai - Get personalized 4-week workout and meal plans in seconds.

• CXassist - Your inbox on autopilot using AI.

• Morph - All-in-one data studio with real-time collaboration.

 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• WEKA and Stability AI partner to maximize cloud benefits for AI model training.

• The rise and potential of LLM-based agents. (detailed but easy to follow paper)

• Using computer vision to clean up San Francisco streets.

• Connecting LLMs with evolutionary algorithms yields powerful prompt optimizers.

• AI regulation - Multiple calls, but it is too early to do so.

• A data source for reasoning embodied agents.

• Pitch deck teardown - Learn.xyz’s $3M seed deck.

• “Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI” - Mustafa Suleyman.

• Silicon Valley doomers are shaping Rishi Sunak’s AI plans.

• Bernie Sanders - workers should reap AI benefits in form of lowering workweek.

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