ChatGPT business ideas with a billionaire

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Today we have Italy’s ban on ChatGPT, an explainer of how GPT4 works, and some advice for AI businesses.

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🤌 Our Picks

Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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The Italian government has banned ChatGPT

So the Italian authorities have gone and done what a bunch of people have been suggesting and banned ChatGPT - but it’s not because they’re scared of human-hating killer AI machines. Nope, the Italians aren’t scared of such things! Their main concern is around privacy violations, arguing that OpenAI is non-compliant with the EU data protection regulations - GDPR. As a result, OpenAI has been forced to put a complete geo-block on the use of ChatGPT from within Italy. But anyway, if the Italian’s concerns around GDPR are true and proven, OpenAI could face some hefty fines and the implications for the AI industry in Europe could be potentially far-reaching.

By the way, if you’re reading this in Italy just try switching your VPN 😉, or use 🍕PizzaGPT🍕.

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Brainstorming ChatGPT business ideas with a billionaire

If you ever get the chance to chat with a billionaire or simply let a billionaire talk at you, I’d recommend you take it and get stuck right in. This podcast with co-founder and CTO of Hubspot, Dharmesh Shah, is really really awesome and will give you a proper insight into how successful people in tech go about thinking, as well as some other simply cool and helpful views on various AI-related things. The guys go through the Plugin Protocol and how it’s the final step towards being able to build things that can do and organise anything for us… There’s a long explanation/discussion on vector embeddings and why Dharmesh thinks companies in this space are gonna provide the next billion-dollar businesses… And then some genuinely useful, down-to-earth advice. Sit down, settle in, make a cup of tea, and give it a listen. PS: Dharmesh bought chat.com for eight figures.

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ChatGPT is a reasoning engine, not a knowledge-base

I love a good Sunday evening blog post, so couldn’t resist including this one in today’s picks that piqued my interest last night. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that GPT technology is essentially a knowledge base that gets searched when we prompt it for output or information on something. Dan, co-founder of Every explains that it is actually a reasoning engine. This insight comes from Sequioa’s invite-only event in March. The distinction is very important—it leads us to the conclusion that providing as much knowledge or information as possible should be the goal in prompting these models because to reason effectively you need the right knowledge.

Going forward, it’ll become imperative to store, track, and be able to retrieve the information we consume, the posts we read, and the videos we watch. In doing this, we’ll be able to create ever-stronger reasoning engines by giving them exactly the information they need to do their job effectively.

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

• I hunted Enhance AI on product hunt today. It lets you add AI autocomplete to your website in just 2 minutes. (link)

• AI code translator with support for 40+ languages, including natural language. (link)

• Baked - Turn your idea into art with AI and get it printed. (link)

• HideGPT - Completely masks the fingerprint of GPT on any piece of text. (link)

• Refact - Powerful AI coding assistant that combines completion, refactoring, chat, and more. (link)

• Curiosity-led exploration of a concept with GPT4. Given a topic, it prompts new questions to ask based on its own generated responses. (link)

• Quilt - Accelerated financial modeling with AI. (link)

• Wove - A tool for building long-running workflows with LLMs. (link)

• Create mini AI videos from text. (link)

• PrankGPT - Prank your friends with AI generated voice calls. (link)

• SiteGPT - Instantly answer visitors' questions personalized chatbot for your website. (link)

• YakGPT - A simple, locally running ChatGPT UI. Bring your own keys. (link)

• LLaMa CPP improvements make loading weights 10-100x faster. (link)

• Micro Agent - Implementation of an autonomous agent powered by LLMs. (link)

• Literally Anything - Transform natural language into simple apps, UI, widgets, websites, games, and forms. (link)

• Cytations - Find YouTube videos that cite an arXiv paper. (link)

• Playlist Genius - Your AI assistant to create your next playlist. (link)

• Auto GPT - Write and execute code to make GPT4 fully autonomous. (link)

• An unofficial collection of Plugins for ChatGPT in different programming languages. (link)

• AI-generated podcast network of bite-sized daily podcasts on anything. (link)

• Spell Labs has an interesting demo of building no-code workflows. Not live yet. (link)

• AI photo sorter - Sort the images on your computer using the power of AI. (link)

• Lorem GPT - Stop using lorem ipsum and generate relevant placeholder text for your projects. (link)

• Wabbit - A proof-of-concept of ChatGPT-powered NPC sidekick to join your main character's adventures. (link)

• Parallel GPT - Bulk process ChatGPT tasks in parallel on spreadsheet UI with CSV/JSON import and export. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

• Temporary markets and easy problems. (link)

• If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason. (link)

• This track sung in jay-z's voice by AI shows how far the artificial intelligence has come. (link)

• What we learned at the Cerebral Valley AI summit. (link)

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Bard, AI whiplash and competing with ChatGPT. (link)

• The case for how and why AI might kill us all. (link)

• Davids in the land of AI Goliaths. How do startups compete in the midst of a platform shift? (link)

• You are not too old to pivot into AI. (link)

• Humanness in the age of AI. (link)

• Elsewhere - Twitter bot wars & GPT-4's true power. (link)

• Democratizing tool development - Fibery's take on AI. (link)

• Reid Hoffman discusses AI imagery, new nation-states, friendship, and “the storm before the calm.” (link)

• GPT 4 can improve itself. (link)

• Artificial intelligence is teaching us new, surprising things about the human mind. (link, without paywall here)

• Your guide to AI in April 2023. (link)

• I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people. (link)

• Resurfacing this: BloombergGPT - Bloomberg’s 50-billion parameter LLM, purpose-built from scratch for finance. (link)

• Think of language models like ChatGPT as a calculator for words. (link)

• A survey of large language models. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

• GPT-ARIA - Integrating GPT-3 with Browser Using Accessibility API. (link) More of a blogpost covering the project but a good read for builders.

• How Aidan built Pet Vet using no-code and AI tools. (link)

• Build your own Q&A KnowledgeBot using GPT-Index & LangChain. (link)

• Self-healing code with GitHub action pipeline. (link)

• AI prompts for business - 110+ Jasper prompts to power your organization. (link)

• How I got ChatGPT to write complete programs. (link)

• Stream the results from the ChatGPT API as they were generated, rather than waiting for the entire thing to complete before displaying anything. (link)

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