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PI - The new AI on the block
PLUS: Hackathon winners, AI educator and ChatGPT code interpreter
Hey folks, today we’ve got a new player in the AI market from Reid Hoffman and ex-Deepmind employees, Khan Academy pushing hard with AI for education and new ChatGPT capabilities.
Let’s get to it.
But before we do… our hackathon with Every finished and our winners are IN!
🏆 first place is WALDO - overhead detection AI for UAV and other projects, by Stephan Sturges. Well done Stephan, this was so awesome to see! (submission here)
🥈 second place is 3 (!!!) projects:
🥉 third place is Spellpage: A todo list that will actually help you in completing your goals, by Daniel and Irakli (submission here)
We had so many awesome submissions - thanks all for participating! and a huge congrats to our winners. I’m glad we had some joint winners as the quality was excellent. See all the submissions here.
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Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes
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Guys, we have a new set of big guns on the block, and I think this is really worth taking note of. Yes, it’s another chatbot, but this one both acts and feels different to the rest.
Firstly, the minds behind this are star-studded: Ex-DeepMind/Google, a LinkedIn cofounder, OpenAI board member, and probably more. The bot is Pi, designed to be a personal chatbot that can develop into virtual companionship over time as it learns from your personal interactions. According to Forbes, it’s there to play the active listener, talking through questions or problems over back-and-forth dialog it then remembers, getting to know its user over time.
One really cool feature: you can talk to your bot across various platforms, across which its memories of your interactions are maintained! Also, they say this isn’t even their most powerful model, which they insist is the best out there…
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I was trying to think of America’s answer to David Attenborough the other day, and I think I’ve just decided that it’s Sal Khan - founder and frontman of Khan Academy, just about the world’s best education platform.
At a recent TED talk, Sal unveiled the academy’s new AI educator that doubles up as both a tutor and a teaching assistant. It’ll have the ability to figure out where a student might have gone wrong; talk them through better approaches; guide them; pretend to be a historical figure; and even be a strong debate opponent. This attitude to education is the right one and could be transformative in driving students to excel in the future.
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The ChatGPT Code Interpreter is starting to pick up a bit of attention in the Twittersphere, and rightly so - its abilities are simply stunning. The tool is able to read files, let you download files, and execute its own code, and according to Ethan Mollick, it really comes into its own when you ask it to analyse some data.
Give it a big old dataset, and it’ll come up with hypotheses, run statistical tests, do regressions, write about its results, and even provide you with plots and visualisations - all of which you can simply download.
The results are actually neat work with style and accuracy - potentially hours of data analyst work in minutes. It seems to only be available in Alpha mode at the moment, but it will probably be out in full soon, so keep your eyes peeled.
🛠️ Cool Tools
Product launches, updates and demos
OpenLLaMA 7B - Replicating LLaMA in an open-source manner. (link)
Mojo - A new programming language for AI developers. (link)
JamGPT - AI debugging assistant to fix bugs faster. (link)
Using my iPhone to give GPT-4 eyes. (link)
Jsonformer - Generate structured output from LLMs. (link)
Oppflow - Make content operations flawless with one tool. (link)
Dreamkeeper - Know your dreams with the help of AI. (link, details of how this works)
Team GPT - AI-powered office with key roles and smart agents. (link)
Box adds AI features to its cloud storage service for enterprises. (link)
Quadratic - Analyse your data with AI, Python, SQL, and formulas. (link)
Jasper brand voice - Combine the power of AI with your brand’s unique tone and style. (link)
🤓 Miscellaneous
News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc
Agents on the Brain by Sequoia. (link)
Cognitive Revolution Podcast - VC insights about everything AI. (link)
AI artist explains 17-hour workflow to create an image. (link)
Kamala Harris is meeting CEOs of Alphabet, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic on May 4 at the White House to discuss risks in current and near-term AI development. (link)
AI startup Cohere is close to securing $250M in funding. (link)
Anaximander, AI, and the co-evolution of technology and minds. (link)
Learning physically simulated tennis skills from broadcast videos. (link)
Snap announces tests of sponsored links in My AI, new ad products for Spotlight and Stories. (link)
Microsoft plans to sell a ChatGPT version that costs up to 10x more. (link)
Samsung bans the use of AI like ChatGPT for employees. (link)
Chegg stock sinks after CEO says ChatGPT hurt growth. (link)
Hollywood writers strike partially due to AI. (link)
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