Google's Chatbot in search

PLUS: Google search AI, superhuman airpods and Claude-next

April 07, 2023

Hey folks, Easter Friday and a green light to stuff my face full of chocolate this weekend—so, the usual then.

Today we have Google touching on search with AI, a fake sexual abuse story, AI in your earholes, Anthropic’s big $5Bn bet and a voice-enabled developer that can build a social network in minutes.

Let’s get to it.

p.s. have you tried out the new Ben’s Bites Search yet? It was built by one of our makers-in-residence, Travis. It includes every link included in the email, choose semantic or keyword search.

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🤌 Our Picks

Highlights if you've only got 2 minutes

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So, Sundar Pichai was on the Wall Street Journal today. Will we be able to talk to LLMs while searching? Sundar says, "Absolutely, yes.”

Google is testing out some new chat-based features in their main Google search product. One example of these tests is the ability to ask follow-up questions. Perplexity has a similar approach to its search.

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Alright, so get this: ChatGPT gave a law professor's name when some journalist asked for examples of sexual abuse. Not only did it give the name, but also a whole fake story with news articles.

Of course, the journalist found out it was all fake, and then they started talking about how the AI was trippin' and making stuff up. More fuel to the fire: Bing picked up on the news, misinterpreted it, and cited it as proof against the poor professor. It's a total mess.

The professor himself wrote a post explaining what really happened and his take on the whole situation. He goes off on some political tangent, but let me just say this: don't trust ChatGPT too much, especially when it comes to people. Be careful out there, y'all.

3/

Aaron and his AI demos. Every time he shows one, I’m amazed.

This time, he made a personal search engine for your AirPods (as long as you don’t lose them every 2 minutes like me)! And now you can access ALL the knowledge in the world just by asking a question into thin air.

Seriously, this is some superhuman-level stuff. You plug in the AirPods and become Dr. Strange. I can't wait for Aaron to make it available for everyone to use.

4/

TechCrunch got a scoop on Anthropic, and its plans to train a powerful model. It’s from their deck that discloses previous fundraises from a “confidential investor.” Adding to that are Google and… Alameda (yup, the FTX company). The deck says that Alameda had no say in their research and expects their shares to be disposed of in the bankruptcy proceedings.

More on the model: They are calling it Claude Next for now and aim it to be 10x bigger than the biggest models today (GPT-40?!). The expected timeframe is the next 18 months, with a claim that “companies that train the best 2025/26 models will be too far ahead for anyone to catch up in subsequent cycles.”

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Bonus pick: we love everything McKay puts out. Here’s his latest: GPT-4 coding assistant demo that builds complete apps with nothing more than voice instructions. (link)

🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • Promptly - Build AI apps and chatbots in minutes. (link)

  • Dexa’s Lex Fridman plugin on ChatGPT provides concise answers with context and timestamped youtube links. (link)

  • Tabby - Self-hosted AI coding assistant. An opensource / on-prem alternative to GitHub Copilot. (link)

  • Jarvis - Your favourite AI assistant, just a text away. (link)

  • Do a hostage negotiation against GPT-4, 60 seconds or she dies. (link)

  • Text-to-video on ChatGPT - A plugin that allows you to generate videos from just text. (link)

  • StabilityGPT - Run stable-diffusion directly in ChatGPT. (link)

  • LlamaIndex can now be used as an official ChatGPT Retrieval plugin. (link)

  • AI intern - Skip the grind and focus on the big picture. (link)

  • Mayday - The AI-assisted calendar that helps you organise, schedule, and protect your day. (link)

  • Toolkit - The easiest way to create & discover AI plugins. (link)

  • Bardeen AI’s Magic bot - Quickly build automations on auto-pilot using LLMs in Twitter replies. (link)

  • Graph Maker - Create graphs from your data in a chat like UI. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • Evolution and awe-inspiring use cases of Midjourney v5. (link)

  • Call for AI demos + a list of beta testers for AI apps from Sarah Guo, Conviction VC. (link)

  • Chroma raises $18M seed round. (link)

  • A convincing AI-made video that tells on itself. (link)

  • How project starline improves remote communication. (link)

  • Sparks of AGI - Early experiments with GPT-4. (link)

  • DoNotPay ChatGPT plugin asks the AI to cancel gym membership. (link)

  • Microsoft adds Bing AI chat to SwiftKey keyboard for Android. (link)

  • Vicuna - An open-source chatbot impressing GPT-4 with 90%* ChatGPT quality. (link)

  • The future is small models, with Matei Zaharia, CTO of Databricks. (link)

  • Edge features to help you stay organised and power your productivity. (link)

  • SegGPT - Segmenting everything in context. Vision foundation model from Beijing Academy of AI. (link)

  • TagGPT from Tencent - LLMs are zero-shot multimodal taggers. (link)

  • GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers. (link)

  • Instruction tuning with GPT-4. (link)

  • DiffMimic - Efficient motion mimicking with differentiable physics. (link)

  • Cerebras-GPT - Open compute-optimal language models trained on the Cerebras wafer-scale cluster. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

  • A recipe for training good generative models. (link)

  • Get a sample ChatGPT plugin up and running in less than 60 seconds. (link)

  • GPT-4 for API design research. (link)

  • StackLlama - An end-to-end tutorial for training Llama with RLHF on preference data such as the StackExchange questions. (link)

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  • Momo is a new AI that generates personalized travel itineraries for any destination with hidden gems and links to Google Maps.

  • AI investor and entrepreneur Allie Miller is looking for a social media manager. (link)

  • Online GPT-4 hackathon with a $10,000 cash prize pool taking place April 28-30. (link)

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