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Microsoft’s big event unveiled the new Bing and a browser copilot

I was putting together some non-Microsoft-vs-Google pieces for today’s top pick, but then thought “screw it”, because this ain't getting any less exciting!

Microsoft held their private unveiling yesterday, and it did not disappoint. Yep, you can dabble in the AI-powered Bing engine from today, and use it as much as you like within a few weeks. But the most exciting thing for me? There’s gonna be a bloody browser copilot! (Only on Edge for now - some kind of browser you probably haven’t heard of 😅 - but with plans to integrate into Chrome too.) It’ll be able to do things like summarise articles you’re reading, answer questions and engage in a bit of back and forth. It’s Google’s turn today, and I have to say it - if they don’t announce a copilot I might just migrate to Microsoft. (all Googlers were told to test Bard before today's event)

The event video is here, but if you want the live transcript, check it out here. Be warned - it’s LONG.

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Baidu to release their own ChatGPT

Amongst all the excitement of Google and Microsoft, let’s not forget that the Chinese are also entering the AI chatbot scene in full force. Baidu - China’s Google equivalent - are releasing their version of the hottest new tech soon. And with a name like Ernie, it’s certainly more emotionally appealing than Bard. With 260 billion parameters, its model is definitely bigger than GPT-3, and the 2021 paper claims to be “superior” to all its rivals. I wonder what they’ve managed to muster up over the last two years…

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Warmest.ai writes your emails in your own style

I had an excruciatingly painful call today with someone who insisted on sharing his screen whilst he drafted a very boring email incredibly slowly, so this tool is ringing very true to me right now! Warmest.ai uses your email history to learn how you respond to certain scenarios, and then drafts emails for you in your own tone - pretty nifty business.

🛠️ Cool Tools

• Embra - ChatGPT-like assistant on mac, personalised to you and your work. (link)

• Relevance AI - Analyze data 10x faster with AI. (link, check out their Ask Relevance feature)

• Mindsdb - Apply NLP to the text data in your database in just a few SQL lines. (link)

• ConversAI - Respond to anything and never run out of interesting things to say. (link)

• Cargo - The OpenAI add-on for sales and marketers. (link)

• Helicone - Providing meaningful and insightful analytics for your GPT-3 usage. (link)

• Mage Space - AI art creation with multiple AI models in one place. (link)

• PowerMode - Your AI co-founder that will help you ideate and pitch your startup. (link)

• LlamaHub - An open-source repository of data loaders that you can plug and play. (link)

• TechCrunch Summarizer - Summarise any TechCrunch article with AI. (link)

• Polymath - Open-source tool that converts any music library into a sample library with machine learning. (link)

• Supabase Clippy - ChatGPT for Supabase docs. (link)

• Image to Sound FX - Convert an image to a corresponding sound effect. (link)

• AI.TA - AI teaching assistant that generates lesson plans, google slides, quizzes and more. (link)

• Mendable - Deploy anywhere to answer developer questions with one line of code. (link)

• CodeComplete - AI coding assistant similar to GitHub Copilot built for enterprise companies. (link)

• Tweetmonk - Write and schedule tweets & threads that engage your audience. (link)

• Ask Corpora - Find the answers to your questions in your document library. (link)

• Latent Labs Alpha - Generate a 360 image with text prompts. (link)

• Create unique and personalised valentine card ideas and designs with Venngage’s AI card generation tool. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

• China’s Baidu reveals generative AI chatbot based on language model bigger than GPT-3. (link)

• Generative AI - The next consumer platform. (link)

• Visions of tomorrow - Inspiration for designing and building the metaverse. (link)

• GPU-backed user interfaces. (link)

• Microsoft and Google are about to open an AI battle. (link)

• Practising AI research. (link)

• The new Bing - Unlisted video from Bing’s YouTube channel. (link)

• Solving a machine-learning mystery - How LLMs can learn a new task without any new training data. (link)

• Google Research, 2022 & beyond - Algorithms for efficient deep learning. (link)

🎓 Learn

• A step-by-step guide to building an AI chatbot. (link)

• Understanding LLMs - A transformative reading list. (link)

• Boltus, The God of AI - A four episode series of learning to use AI with funny production. (link)

🔬 Research

• Optimising in-context learning (ICL) of LLMs. (link)

• SolidGoldMagikarp - Anomalous tokens and prompt generation for adversarial examples. (link)

• What learning algorithm is in-context learning? Investigations with linear models. (link)

• Efficiently upgrading multilingual machine translation models to support more languages from Meta. (link)

• Speak, Read and Prompt from Google - High-fidelity text-to-speech with minimal supervision. (link)

• Exploring the benefits of training expert language models over instruction tuning from LG. (link)

• Pic2Word from Google - Mapping pictures to words for zero-shot composed image retrieval. (link)

• Spatial Functa from DeepMind - Scaling functa up to ImageNet-1k datasets at 256*256 resolution. (link)

• Memory-based meta-learning on non-stationary distributions from DeepMind. (link)

• Hard prompts made easy - Gradient-based discrete optimization for prompt tuning and discovery. (link)

• A categorical archive of ChatGPT failures. (link)

📰 Unclassifieds

• AutomationTown - A scripted, bingeable pod about automation & AI, boasting a cast of professional actors. Listen to the season 3 trailer>>

• Perplexity AI is looking for an experienced research engineer to join its team and help develop and deploy LLMs. (link)

• Prufrock Ventures is inviting applications for builders in residence. (link)

• Hubble is hiring a senior product designer for helping students write better essays. (link)

• Virtuzone, a Middle East business accelerator, is seeking expert help with fine-tuning Open AI models. (link)

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