Google Search Killer, by Google

PLUS: LLMs on web browsers, Elon's X.com and practical AI use examples

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Today we have Google’s plans to save their search business, running LLMs on your browser, and 35 real ways people are using AI right now.

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Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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Google went all action-hero and said no one could kill Google search because we’re doing it ourselves. It’s planning a brand new search engine that will be entirely different from the traditional search experience. Not much is said about this engine except the tagline “new A.I. technology in phones and homes all over the world.” Probably a “play date” with Samsung as it threatened to use Bing in its devices as the default search engine.

And wait, I was just kidding. Google is not letting go of its most overachieving kid that easily. They are also working on adding many features to the traditional search under a project named Magi. This includes more images, direct financial transactions inside search, definite answers with a list of ads beneath etc.

While the team from Google said that not all decks would lead to a launch (which we already know, dear), here’s a quick list of some options they are looking at:

  • GIFI - Image generation in image search results

  • Search Along - Chat with access to search side by side

  • Tivoli Tutor - Language learning with AI

  • Google Earth + AI for mapping and exploration

  • Music search by chat

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You know, things like chatbots, then automatic agents feel like the next big thing. But most of these are steps on a long hill we’re climbing with AI. Another of those steps is making these AI models run locally and in browsers. Open-source releases let builders develop the locally running versions of LLMs, and now, we’ve powerful LLMs running in the browser with no server support. Github repo here.

What do you think will be the next step toward the big thing?

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I hate when productivity gurus mention a tool and say that the possibilities are endless. They have done that with Excel, then Notion, and now AI.

Who’ll tell them that I don’t need endless possibilities? I need examples of using the damn thing. Right?

Now, I don’t know about Excel but I got you with AI. This article has 35 examples of people using AI for gardening, doctor visits, designing spaceships and guess what? write Excel formulas. Check this, hit reply, and tell me if you got some inspo.

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A few quick picks:

  • LlamaIndex is the data interface for foundation models to connect with external data. Kenn wrote a piece about who they are, what they’re doing and where they’re going. (link)

  • This is insane! An AI-generated song featuring Drake & The Weeknd. In future are we going to see artists train models on their own voices? I think its possible…(link)

  • LangChain taps Sequoia to lead the funding round for at least a $200 million valuation. (link)

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • WhisperBot for Whatsapp - Speech-to-text AI assistant to read voice messages in Whatsapp. (link)

  • Debate Devil - Toughen up your hypothesis with AI debates of multiple levels of rigour. (link)

  • Ask ChatGPT any question covered on the My First Million Podcast with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri with a chatGPT plugin. (link)

  • BabyAGI as a service - Integrate Baby AGI in your work with one simple command. (link)

  • Adventure by Typing Cloud - ChatGPT in a text adventure game, but you are the game and the AI is the player. (link)

  • Ipython GPT - Extension to use ChatGPT directly from your Jupyter Notebook or IPython. (link)

  • Codeamigo - Learn to code like a developer. (link)

  • Slack GPT - A ChatGPT bot for Slack. (link)

  • Awesome movies - Index of 11k+ movies since 1970 that suggest 40 similar movies to your query. (link)

  • HyperDB - A hyper-fast local vector database for use with LLM Agents. (link)

  • OpenAssistant is now live. The world's best open-source Chat AI. (link)

  • Playtext - Read at the speed of Sound. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • OpenAI’s red team - The experts hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT. (link, without paywall here)

  • Amazon CEO - We're democratising generative AI. (link)

  • AI can make progress where science has struggled. (link)

  • Elon Musk plans an AI startup to rival OpenAI. (link) The company is called X.AI, similar to X.com which Elon merged with Paypal in 2000s. (link)

  • Sam Altman - The size of LLMs won’t matter as much moving forward. (link)

  • LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform. (link)

  • A new approach to computation reimagines artificial intelligence. (link)

  • UC San Diego announces two projects, Graphologue and Sensecape, to improve human-AI interactions with diagrams and spatial organisation. (link)

  • The ‘ petertodd’ phenomenon. (link)

  • Introducing Agora - An open-source multi-modality AI research coalition to advance humanity. (link)

  • Can GPT-4 do science? This red team member explains why the answer is still no. (link)

  • Supabase announces their studio 2.0 with Supabase AI and other features. (link)

  • Artist refuses prize after his AI image wins at top photo contest. (link)

  • The AI doomers’ playbook. (link)

  • Stephen Wolfram talks AI, the universe, Richard Feynman and life advice. (link)

  • Can open-source LLMs detect bugs in C++ code? (link)

  • Peak LLM - Prompt injection might be just the beginning. (link)

  • Multimodal C4 - An open corpus of 103M documents containing 585M images interleaved with 43B English tokens. (link)

  • Inpaint anything - Segment anything meets image inpainting. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

  • What are transformer models and how do they work? (link)

  • Understanding large language models. (link)

  • Given how good AI is at coding, is learning to code still worth it? (link)

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