Let the AI games begin. Google + Anthropic vs Microsoft + Open AI

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Google invests $300m in Anthropic, creators of the Claude chatbot

It’s hard to call a multi-billion dollar company an underdog, but Microsoft is giving me that feeling I got watching Morocco get to the semi-final of the World Cup last year. And I’m a sucker for an underdog! So with Google’s $300m investment in Anthropic hitting headlines, stirring excitement about a potential chatbot search engine, I kiiiinda low-key hope Bing pips them and comes out the winner!

Paywall removed here.

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A preview of Microsoft’s Bing with an AI chatbot

Speaking of chatbot search engines and Microsoft, this post gives readers a sneak peek at the chatbot Microsoft will be incorporating into Bing (apparently - Microsoft have no comment of course), using OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology. It’ll have a 1000-character prompt box, responses that can be personally tailored, references, and conversational abilities like ChatGPT. This could be the start of a major shift in how we find information online. Will it also mark a shift in the company we use to do it?

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Quora’s new chatbot AI called Poe

Quora is now doing more than providing a website that consumes me for hours, reading about things I didn’t even know I found interesting. They’ve just released Poe. Sitting as an iPhone app (with plans for Android and a web experience soon), it has a slick messaging interface, is actually much faster than ChatGPT for me, provides suggested follow-up prompts, clickable topics to go further down the rabbit hole and has multiple different bots with cute little names. Don't let their cuteness fool you, they are different models - Sage is from OpenAI, Heron is from Anthropic and Dragonfly is another OpenAI model.

I spoke with the Quora founder about the app and there's a lot more to come that I wasn't allowed to see 👀 . They're betting that people will want the ability to choose which models they interact with.

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Lex, the AI writing tool, is evolving.

As of late last night, Lex now has AI suggestions when you highlight a string of text and comments (including saved draft comments). You can probably guess where that develops further with multiple options for different sentences etc.

Admittedly I just assumed Lex was a writing tool plus AI features, like most others, seem to be. But chatting with Nathan last night, it's really becoming your writing collaborator. It is thinking of the writing tool experience with AI baked in from the start. Imagine if AI was your first port of call to collaborate on your documents.

Right now the waitlist for Lex has 18k+ people on it, but Ben's Bites readers who sign up with this link (no affiliate $) in the next 48 hours will get access within days. If you have an account already and are still on the waitlist, email [email protected] and mention Ben's Bites.

🛠️ Cool Tools

• Pal - Get an A.I. assistant for your website in seconds. (link)

• Free PFP Maker - Create a stunning profile picture with just a few clicks. (link)

• Spread Positivity Today - Let someone know you appreciate them with a custom note using the magic of AI. (link)

• Tensai v0.2 - Copilot for complex features. (link)

• Hume - Compose personalised messages to interview candidates. (link)

• Fuego - An interface for running code in the cloud. (link)

• Podcast Summariser - OpenAI Whisper + Davinci for podcast summarization. (link)

• TripNotes - A text-native app for trip planning that automatically maps names to a location. From one of the founders of Cameo. (link)

• Sketch Pro AI - Bring sketches to reality for amateurs and architects. (link)

• Humata - ChatGPT for your files. (link)

• FYLI - Create a personalised AI chat bot without writing a single line of code. (link)

• Chatbase - Create a chatbot from any PDF document. (link, demo)

• Portalpix - Generate sci-fi style images with auto-complete prompt feature. (link)

• IconifyAI - Create beautiful icons for your apps or websites in seconds. (link)

• Ask Quran - A web app to answer questions from the Quran. (link)

• DocsGPT - Use documentation and ask questions directly. (link)

• Relevance AI - Use all of your blog posts and docs as context for ChatGPT-style questions and answers. (link)

• Brew - Strategic marketing platform to measure all your marketing activities, even the soft ones. (link)

• QandA chatbot creator for Github repos. (link)

• ColorMagic - Generate colour palette from keyword for image of colour you enter. (link)

• Evoke - Cloud API for AI models. (link)

• Morise - AI-powered tools for youtube growth. (link)

• Ogen AI - Convert links into cover photos using ChatGPT & Stable Diffusion. (link)

• MidJourney Prompt Helper - Generate a prompt like setting up a photoshoot with the main idea, lighting, colours etc. (link)

• Fin DataQuest - A search engine for financial data. (link)

• Stable Attribution - A tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind AI generated images. (link)

• GPTravel Advisor - Build a travel itinerary with links for any city. (link)

• PlayARTi - Create art by choosing characters, location and activity in a game like UI. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

• This VC is slowly automating their job. (link)

• John Carmack’s different path to artificial general intelligence. (link)

• Investing 101 - Updating the hype cycle. (link)

• Using no-code tools to create useful AI powered apps. (link)

• OpenAI’s Sam Altman talks ChatGPT and how artificial general intelligence can break capitalism. (link)

• Google invests $300mn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic. (link)

• The Cognitive Revolution - New AI podcast from Village Global and On Deck founder. (link)

• How ChatGPT kicked off an A.I. arms race. (link)

• Oh the things you’ll do with Bing’s ChatGPT. (link)

• Hustle bros are jumping on the AI bandwagon. (link)

• Some things GaryMarcus might say - A satirical post from Gary Marcus on his arguments with Yann LeCun. (link)

• Thread of awesome AI projects by Stanford students. (link)

• AI and product management with Marily Nika (Meta, prev. Google). (link)

• Do not fear AI, puny humans... that is not meant as a threat. (link)

• All the Answers - How much should Google worry about ChatGPT? (link)

• Your guide to AI - February 2023. (link)

• Talking with AI version of streamer Asmongold on The Athene AI Show. (link to the full stream, a short clip here)

• A judge just used ChatGPT to make a court decision. (link)

• AI can legally run a company. (link)

• Reverse engineered ChatGPT API. (link)

• ChatGPT will replace some jobs, but traders say not theirs. (link)

• ChatGPT must be regulated and A.I. ‘can be used by bad actors,’ warns OpenAI’s CTO. (link)

• Let's speed up AI - Calls to slow down AI are deeply misguided. (link)

🎓 Learn

• Deploying document QA with GPTIndex & Langchain. (link)

• Building an email summarising feature using GPT3 and life-like AI generated voice on iOS. (link)

• How to build a question answer bot in typescript. (link)

🔬 Research

• OpenAssistant from LAION - A chat-based assistant to understand tasks, interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically. (link)

• Gradio demo for BLIP-2, image-to-text generation from Salesforce Research. (link)

• PyGlove from Google - Easily and scalably share ML ideas with multiple teams as code. (link)

• Efficient domain adaptation for speech foundation models from Google. (link)

• INV from Intel - Incremental neural videos, a new approach to creating interactive streaming videos with no lag. (link)

• vMAP: Vectorised object mapping for neural field SLAM. (link)

• Creating a large language model of a philosopher. (link)

• FourierLearner-Transformers (FLTs) - Incorporating a wide range of relative positional encoding mechanisms in linear transformers. (link)

• LM Design from Bytedance - A generic approach to reprogramming sequence-based protein language models. (link)

• The unreasonable effectiveness of few-shot learning for machine translation - from Google. (link)

• TEXTure - Text-guided texturing of 3D shapes. (link)

• Describe, Explain, Plan and Select (DEPS) - An interactive planning approach for the open world based on LLMs. (link)

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