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The new Bing demo made more mistakes than Google’s Bard

Woooaah, wait a second. After last week’s fervour around Google’s Bard demo making a mistake, it turns out that Bing’s chatbot demo made even more mistakes. Only we were all too clouded by the excitement that none of us noticed! It said the cons of a hoover that has no cord include its short cord; that you can book a reservation at a restaurant that you can’t book a reservation at, and it completely hallucinated a bunch of numbers from a financial statement. Yes, this was all in the demo. Well, I guess Google has brought it back to a draw? Google 1, Microsoft 1.

But wait a third! It turns out Bard technically didn’t even make a mistake! Facepalm. Google 2, Microsoft 1… Although in terms of hype levels, it kinda feels like Microsoft is still winning. And this is all probably exactly why Google and Meta fell behind Microsoft on this in the first place - they’re all too familiar with the potential impact of premature tech releases, and they may yet turn out to be right.

Un-paywalled FT article here.

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AskFred by fireflies.ai is the best-looking AI assistant for meetings yet

I’ll be honest, I’m getting a bit exasperated by the deluge of tools doing the same things built on ChatGPT, but all the AI-assistants-for-meetings ones are really piquing my interest, including AskFred from fireflies.ai. “Knowledge originates, and is buried, in meetings”, and we spend a hell of a lot of time in them - probably too long. This tech unravels that buried knowledge by listening to meetings you’ve been in. It can then draft follow-up emails, write specs, consolidate feedback, and complete actions. All with a slick little UI to match.

Bonus: you can hook fireflies up to other apps using Zapier. Transcribe and summarise your meetings automatically? Yes, please.

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AI art opens up unfortunate avenues to abuse women’s rights

I usually like to keep these Picks light, but some things are too important to miss out. As The Washington Post reports here, 96% of all online deep fakes are pornographic - that means that there could be a hell of a lot of non-consensual porn circulating online, which is a nightmare for women. As they argue, the generative art AI revolution opens a whole new avenue by which women can be abused. As such, given the speed with which it is developing, it is essential for regulators and lawmakers to update processes and rules with equal speed, in order to safeguard those that are most vulnerable to misuse of this exciting, but potentially dangerous, technology.

🛠️ Cool Tools

• Fireflies.ai - Help your team record, transcribe, search, and analyse meeting notes. (link)

• WAAS - Whisper as a service, GUI and API for OpenAI Whisper. (link)

• HeyCLI - Command line in natural language. (link)

• Script file to train GPT-3 on your own data inside Google Sheets. (link)

• The GPT who lived - GPT-3 read the Harry Potter books so you can ask it questions. (link)

• Bifrost - A tool that uses AI to turn anything from Figma into clean React code automatically. (link)

• GPTflix - Movie reviews to help you choose what's next on Netflix. (link)

• Piano Genie - Have some fun pretending you're a piano virtuoso using machine learning. (link)

• Baseplate - Deploy LLMs with deeper insights and cutting edge evaluations techniques. (link)

• Paperlist - Read and share research papers. (link)

• Promptable.js - The world's first library for building AI apps in Typescript. (link)

• Beam - Rapidly prototype AI projects. (link)

• AI Commits – a CLI tool that generates your commit message for you with AI. (link)

• Booltool - All-in-one suite of amazing tools. (link)

• Prompt Hunt - Your home for exploring, creating, and sharing AI art. (link)

• Walnut Ace - Sell more with less using AI and powerful integrations. (link)

• ChatWP - AI chatbot for direct answers to your WordPress questions. (link)

• Tability - Use GPT-3 to convert goals into a set of measurable outcomes for your team. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

• Langchain announces entrants for their Chat Your Data contest. (link)

• The AI search wars Google vs. Microsoft, Nord Stream report, state of the union - All in Podcast. (link)

• The need for work on technical AI alignment. (link)

• Princeton faculty discuss ChatGPT in the classroom. (link)

• Neeva brings responsible, citation-backed AI powered search to Europe and Canada. (link)

• The fault, dear Google, is not in our stars but in ourselves. (link, without paywall here)

• Stable diffusion could solve a gap in medical imaging data. (link)

• Benchmark (investor in Snap, Uber and Twitter) expected to join generative AI rush with deal for startup LangChain. (link)

• Playing Dixit with ChatGPT - Creative image captioning is solved? (link)

• Comparing Africa-centric models to OpenAI’s GPT3.5. (link)

• Linkin Park burst into 2023 with a new music video generated entirely by AI. (link)

• Writer, the AI tool, deploys home-cooked large language models to power up enterprise copy. (link)

• Image to prompt competition for Stable Diffusion, 3 months to participate. (link)

🎓 Learn

• Prompt engineering and LLMs with Langchain. (link)

• Zapier’s guide on how to use ChatGPT to write marketing copy. (link)

🔬 Research

• Level generation through large language models. (link, thread)

• Using TracIn to improve model performance in the parameter-efficient tuning from Google. (link)

• Towards agile text classifiers for everyone from Google. (link)

• Image-to-image Schrödinger bridge for image restoration from Nvidia. (link)

• SinMDM - Single motion diffusion to learn the internal motion motifs with arbitrary topology from a single motion sequence. (link)

• Raising the cost of malicious AI-powered image editing from MIT. (link)

• MaskSketch from Google - Unpaired structure-guided masked image generation. (link)

• Is ChatGPT a general-purpose natural language processing task solver? (link)

• Relationship between fluency and attribution in LLMs prompted with retrieved evidence. (link)

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