Shopify and others hop on the AI bandwagon

Hey folks - apologies for the late send yesterday. Austin's nightlife took hold of me! Flying back today and didn't get to see a great deal of the city this week as they had a freak winter storm. I experienced freezing rain for the first time ever!

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Bing to incorporate ChatGPT imminently?

The big-gun AI races have reeeaaally heated up. After Teams is officially incorporating ChatGPT, it sounds like Bing is about to do the same with the long-awaited GPT-4.

Watch out Google, who are being unnervingly quiet… It kinda feels like they’re just gonna jump out with something no one (or everyone?) is expecting. According to Bloomberg, this sort of AI technology is going to become “part of their core services in the coming weeks/months.” Does that mean Google’s version of ChatGPT? We’ll have to wait and see.

Bloomberg’s article without the paywall is here.

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AI-generated article summaries from hovering over a link

The original guys who brought us article-summary-tech are back in town, in business, on the block, and whatever else you want to say. Instead of becoming another AI summary extension, they are pivoting to generating an article summary when you hover your mouse over a link. Kinda like Wikipedia pop-ups but AI-generated.

They’re aiming to address that daunting prospect of clicking into links only to be disappointed in the content or to just end up leaving it on your toolbar to perpetuity. I can totally see this becoming big stuff.

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Find similar-sounding songs with Maroofy

I dunno about you guys, but when I find a song I’ve fallen for, I listen to it back to back, eventually reaching a love-hate stage. Then the sick-and-tired stage.

For those of you like me, Maroofy provides some pretty cool tech to help you move on. Enter a song you like, and it finds similar-sounding songs. Not just the same artist or genre, but the same vibes. So that you can listen to sounds you love without hating a poor, innocent song!

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Friday Fun: Human-animal portraits using AI art

For a bit of Friday Fun-time, check out this pretty funny thread using generative AI to produce human-animal portraits. It also doubles up as a best-in-class tutorial on how to guide prompts to a desired outcome.

🛠️ Cool Tools

• IntelliMail - A chrome extension that generates your emails. (link)

• Text to Figma - Conversational UI for Figma. (link)

• Shopify + OpenAI integration to generate copy without any 3rd party app. (link)

• WTF does this company do - Explains what a company does based on the landing page. (link)

• Triple Whale announces its AI ad engine - create, deploy, analyse, and iterate your creative content. (announcement link, waitlist)

• LangChain announces Instruct Embeddings - generate text embeddings tailored to any task just by providing the task description. (link, more new features here)

🤓 Miscellaneous

• GPT-3, with Cado Platform, will transform the way security analysts do investigations. (link)

• No Priors - A podcast with leading founders & researchers in AI. (link)

• This voice-cloning tool could get banned. (link)

• Lavender lands $13.2M for its AI-powered email marketing engine. (link)

• Microsoft boosts Viva Sales with new GPT seller experience. (link)

• What orders the universe and where science and mysticism meet - Podcast AI. (link)

• Inside ChatGPT’s breakout moment and the race to put AI to work. (link, without paywall here)

• Happy groundhog day, the AI edition. (link)

• The story so far: where have all the AI cowboys gone? (link)

• ‎Manifold podcast - ChatGPT, LLMs, and AI. (link)

• Google shares slip after sales miss as advertising demand slows. (link)

• A new bubble is forming for AI startups, but don’t expect a crypto-like pop. (link)

• Openhouse raises $25M funding for its data lakehouse offering from Addition and Greylock. (link)

🎓 Learn

• Midjourney tutorial for knolling—arranging objects in parallel or 90 degrees. (link)

• Building a GPT-3 app with Next.js and Vercel Edge Functions. (link)

• Guide and resources for prompt engineering. (link)

🔬 Research

• Open Source Vizier - Towards reliable and flexible hyperparameter and blackbox optimization. (link)

• Training language models with language feedback. (link)

• SceneScape - Text-driven consistent scene generation. (link)

• Efficient graph field integrators meet point clouds. (link)

• Dreamix by Google - Video diffusion models are general video editors. (link)

• Mnemosyne from Google - Learning to train transformers with transformers. (link)

• Dual PatchNorm from Google - Two layernorms before and after the patch embedding layer in vision transformers. (link)

• SceneDreamer - Unbounded 3D scene generation from 2D image collections. (link)

• RobustNeRF by Google - Ignoring distractors with robust losses. (link)

• Combining tree-search, generative models, and nash bargaining concepts in game-theoretic reinforcement learning. (link)

• Autumn - Causal theory discovery through program synthesis. (link)

📰 Unclassifieds

• Learn how to integrate ChatGPT in your day-to-day products like Outlook, Excel, Teams in a no-code way. Click here to get 90% off.

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