Microsoft 1, Google 0 - A $100bn mistake

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Microsoft take the lead over Google in the Big AI Battle

So after we’ve spent the past week getting ourselves in a tizzy over the two unveilings in the Big AI Battle, what’s the verdict? Ohhhh, yes, it’s Microsoft 1, Google 0. The underdogs are in the lead. In the latter’s big event yesterday, they chose a demo question that flopped a wrong answer, and it just all-around doesn’t feel quite as exciting. But this competition is great! I’m hoping Google pulls it back to 1-1 to keep the competition alive.

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Google release immersive views on Maps

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🛠️ Cool Tools

• Engage AI - Increase Linkedin engagement with AI-generated comments. (link)

• Img2Prompt - Get prompts from stable diffusion generated images. (link)

• Buzz Mail - Instantly write professional replies to your emails using AI. (link)

• AVflow - Low/no code platform to build video-based workflows and applications. (link)

• Transcript Forest - The largest podcast archive. (link)

• Docs Ques - Analyze docs and instantly generate questions on them. (link)

• Galileo AI - Generate UI designs beyond imagination using natural language. (link)

• AI-assisted Prompt Builder - Generate and deploy a prompt from scratch to add gen AI to a product. (link)

• TunifyAI - No-code platform to train custom GPT-3 models without any coding required. (link)

• Orbofi - AI-generated content layer for a social metaverse for users to create their own communities. (link)

• Woz - A generative design tool that helps your product teams design faster, align smarter. (link)

• ChatGPT for StackOverflow - See ChatGPT's response to every question on StackOverflow, even the unanswered ones. (link)

• Jenni, the AI writing assistant now cites her sources for all generations. (link, tool here)

• Sincerely - Get things off your chest and help others by writing and reading anonymous stories. (link)

• Instruct X Decoder - Object-centric image editing with text instructions. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

• Use GPT-3 incorrectly to reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x. (link)

• ‘AI first’ to last - How Google fell behind in the AI boom. (link)

• Magic for English majors - Programming in prose in an AI-haunted world. (link)

• Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad. (link)

• Scale AI - Why data will power the AI revolution. (link)

• Google shows off new AI search features, but a ChatGPT rival is still weeks away. (link)

• A tech race begins as Microsoft adds AI to its search engine. (link)

• Researchers discover a more flexible approach to machine learning. (link)

• The most important job skill of this century. (link)

• Science Letter - Personalized newsletter to keep up to date with research on any topic, in any language and format. Don't try this in case you don't want me anymore 😭 jk. You'll come crawling back, right?! 🥹 (link)

• Google's Paris event recap - Does not seem as momentous as what Microsoft just unveiled. (link)

• Hands-on with the new Bing - Microsoft’s step beyond ChatGPT. (link)

• Disinformation researchers raise alarms about AI chatbots. (link)

• Oops! How Google bombed, while doing pretty much exactly the same thing as Microsoft did, with similar results. (link)

• Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search - CEO Satya Nadella explains why. (link)

• Google confirms AI-generated content isn’t against search guidelines. (link)

🎓 Learn

• Augmenting GPT for fast editable memory to enable context aware question & answering. (link)

• Deep dive on PromptTemplates for building better apps with LLMs. (link)

🔬 Research

• PromptPG - Prompt learning via policy gradient for semi-structured maths reasoning. (link)

• Unsupervised and semi-supervised anomaly detection with data-centric ML. (link)

• Sketchy from Google - Reducing memory and compute requirements of maintaining a matrix preconditioner using frequent directions. (link)

• GPTscore - Assessing the quality of the generated text. (link)

• Neural Congealing from Nvidia - Detecting and jointly aligning semantically-common content across a given set of images. (link)

• Concept algebra for text-controlled vision models - Formalization of "what the user intended" through algebraic operations. (link)

• Augmenting zero-shot dense retrievers with plug-in mixture-of-memories. (link)

• PFGM++ to unlock the potential of physics-inspired generative models. (link)

• Noise2Music from Google - A series of diffusion models is trained to generate high-quality 30-second music clips from text prompts. (link)

• The code for plug-and-play diffusion features for text-driven image-to-image translation is out. (link)

• Generating a coherent storybook from the plain text of a story. (link)

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