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PLUS: randomness - a feature or a bug?
Hey folks, here’s your daily digest for 28th March 2023. Today we’ve got Zoom rolling out its AI features, randomness in chatbots to make them more human, Luma’s text-to-3d API and a deep dive into OpenAI’s business model of the future and what it could mean for consumers: hint - its great.
Let’s get to it.
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Zoom is finally zooooming into the AI space, and I’m looking forward to a bit of levelling up to helping me disassociate their name from COVID. Zoom IQ is going to become a super smart video chat companion that empowers blaaah blah, let’s just get into it. If you turn up late to a meeting, you’ll be able to quickly have a meeting summary generated so that you can get stuck in; chat threads will be summarised if you had to pop off and miss a loada messages. And then there’ll be bits of post-meeting idea organisation, drafting chat content, and creating whiteboard sessions (whatever they are!). Zoom is back, baby!
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If I told you there’s a strong case for why chatbot AI should be more random, you’d probably be pretty sceptical. (Well I was anyway, but maybe you’re smarter than me.) Linked above is a really awesome blog post on The Stream that makes just this argument… Part of the quality of human conversation and collaboration and idea generation comes in the inherent randomness in our thoughts, triggering changes in conversation path and subsequent creativity. The problem is that chatbots are great at solving problems, but are “overly obedient and hopelessly unimaginative”. We should introduce randomness by training on real human conversion. This guy has and he reckons it works a treat…
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I goddamn love NeRF tech. All those photorealistic 3D objects really let you feel like you’re in a place that you’re not, and I’m very much here for it. Luma AI just brought us a step closer to “internet scale 3D” with their Video-to-3D API - yep, API. Developers will have access to NeRF modelling at the accessibly cheap price of $1 per scene, where you’ll be able to input a video and get fully stuck into interactive 3D scenes. (And yes, I know “accessibly” isn’t a word but it feels right.)
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Packy doesn’t miss. Another excellent read from him on OpenAI ‘stumbling’ from a research team to potentially unlocking the most profitable business model out there. He discusses the Apex Aggregator and a world (in the not-too-distant future) where our behaviours as consumers could rapidly change, and what that could mean for APIs and companies we (and other businesses) rely on. It’s a long, but fascinating read. Highly recommend.
🛠️ Cool Tools
Product launches, updates and demos
GPTcha - Captcha 2.0 for our post-LLMs and deep fakes world implemented for robo-calls. (link) Founder on winning first place in the “AI for Good” Hackathon. (here)
Outset - AI-led interviews powered by ChatGPT. (link)
HomeByte - Reimagine how a home for sale might look like when you make it your own. (link)
Hey GPT - iOS shortcut that allows you to replace Siri with ChatGPT. (link)
Play HT opens their generative speech playground to try out voice synthesis. (link)
Interview Breaker - A hatGPT tool that tells you what to say in job interviews. (link)
Lichness voice recognition Beta - Play games like chess with voice commands, for example speaking knight e4. (link)
Compo AI - Build with Webflow 100x faster. (link)
Study for the US citizenship test. (link)
Numerous - An AI assistant to breeze through busywork in Excel and Google Sheets. (link)
🤓 Miscellaneous
News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc
Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history. (link)
Optimising for generative chat. (link)
AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects. (link)
Why Goldman Sachs thinks generative AI could have a huge impact on economic growth and productivity. (link)
ChatGPT gets a computer. (link)
PRESTO – A multilingual dataset for parsing realistic task-oriented dialogues. (link)
The camera, Van Gogh and The Starry Night. (link)
GPT-4 revolution - Top 5 jobs AI can replace now. (link)
Building ghostwriter chat at Replit. (link)
Turing test - A game between humans and AIs, worth a read. (link)
Sourcegraph has open-sourced Cody, AI-enabled editor assistant under the Apache 2.0 licence. (link)
The GPT-x revolution in medicine. (link)
What does the near future of artificial intelligence look like and what should I build? (link)
PAniC-3D - Stylized single-view 3D reconstruction from portraits of anime characters. (link)
ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for text-annotation tasks. (link)
Anti-DreamBooth - Protecting users from personalised text-to-image synthesis. (link)
Fireside chat with Clement Delangue from Hugging Face. (link)
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