Are Windows' releases big again?

PLUS: new AI startups take on the big players

March 01, 2023

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Who’d have thought AI would bring back the excitement for Windows releases again?! Windows XP was the one for me back in the day. Cruising through the web at a snail’s pace on my iPad-sized Sony Vaio. I’ll never feel that cool again.

Let’s get to it.

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This is probably the first time in my life that I’ve been eagerly awaiting a Microsoft Windows release, but here we are! No software discrimination in 2023. This 11th Windows update is all about AI and their New Bing (well, that’s the bit we’re here for). They’ve brought the AI-powered Bing search to the taskbar, where user searches will trigger a flyout, providing quick access to Bing AI chatbot options in the Edge browser. Microsoft is really concentrating on their AI push now with rapid extensions, and I can feel a level of aggressive competition heating up. Check out the link for other Windows 11 updates.

Sorry, but it’s time to chat some more about AI alignment and safety, and for our first time: prompt hacking? These guys demonstrate the ability to conduct “prompt injections”, whereby your chatbot becomes a scammer with the goal of trying to obtain your banking details. Every day, vulnerable people are scammed, in-person or over the phone, so it’s imperative to recognise that this can extend to the prompts people are using within their seemingly-safe browser as well. General rule? Never give your card deets to a chatbot! For a brief chat on jailbreaking Bing AI’s guardrails, check out Gary Marcus’s latest post here.

You might be about to start hearing way more comms from a load more companies you didn’t know you’d signed up to. Typeface, founded by the former Adobe CTO, just pulled in a whopping $65m. The company aims to use generative AI to help firms provide corporate content in the style of their specific brand tone, style, and workflow. It can execute things like blog posts, communications, and advertisements with their target audience and company motives in mind. This could end up being a big step for enterprises across the board (pun totally intended), with teams in all industries being able to boost productivity and output quality.

For updates in the advertising space, check out this FT article on how Meta has been using AI to power revenue for both themselves and their advertising clients. Non-paywalled here.

No matter how much you and everyone you know loves AI and programming, I guarantee you that a hell of a load of stuff is still easier in a good ol’ Excel spreadsheet. PromptLoop does a seemingly good job of integrating prompt-based AI into your sheets. It can transform, extract, summarise, and categorise, and looks like a pretty subtle integration!

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🛠️ Cool Tools

Product launches, updates and demos

  • Metal - Machine learning embeddings without the pain. (link)

  • Reword - Write articles that perform with an editor that thinks. (link)

  • Unum - Scaling intelligence by rebuilding the core data infrastructure for the age of AI. (link)

  • Vellum - The dev platform for production LLM apps. (link)

  • Waveline - Build and integrate AI in minutes, no ML experience required. (link)

  • Otter chrome extension - OtterPilot your Zoom and Google Meet meetings with an AI-powered assistant. (link)

  • Demo for Gong - Call summarizer & QA for sales/product research calls. (link)

  • Vue - AI & automation trusted by the top enterprise retailers around the globe. (link)

  • PromptLoop - Build spreadsheet models powered by AI. (link)

  • Enhance - Give your users AI autocomplete in 2 lines of code. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc

  • Worldbuilding with GPT. (link)

  • Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos. (link)

  • AI tool reveals how celebrities’ faces have been photoshopped. (link)

  • The threat of automated misinformation is only getting worse. (link)

  • Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar. (link)

  • Why do AI chatbots tell lies and act weird? Look in the mirror. (link)

  • Meta’s AI-driven advertising system splits marketers. (link)

  • Active learning is the future of generative AI - Here’s how to leverage it. (link)

  • Research community engagement and list of open source datasets from Google. (link)

  • Typeface - a tool we covered yesterday - has emerged from stealth with $65M to bring generative AI to the enterprise. (link)

  • The real potential of generative AI. (link)

  • Indirect prompt injection on Bing . (link)

  • CodaMetrix snags $55M series A for AI-driven hospital revenue cycle management. (link)

  • Investors are going nuts for ChatGPT-ish artificial intelligence. (link)

🎓 Learn

How-to’s and resources

  • How to build a GPT-3 Slack bot with Zapier. (link)

  • Foundation models - Scale enables a powerful generalist. (link)

  • Jaq n Jil + Zapier - Getting started with AI automation. (link)

  • Introduction to the Pinecone console for beginners. (link)

  • Langchain beginner's tutorial for typescript/javascript developers. (link)

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🔬 Research

Published research papers

  • Monocular depth estimation using diffusion models. (link)

  • Large language models are state-of-the-art evaluators of translation quality from Microsoft. (link)

  • Vid2Seq from Google - Large-scale pretraining of a visual language model for dense video captioning. (link)

  • GLM-Dialog - Noise-tolerant pre-training for knowledge-grounded dialogue generation. (link)

  • Spacerini - Plug-and-play search engines with Pyserini and Hugging Face. (link)

  • EvoPrompting from Google - Language models for code-level neural architecture search. (link)

  • IntrinsicNGP - Intrinsic coordinate based hash encoding for human NeRFs. (link)

  • BakedSDF - Meshing neural SDFs for real-time view synthesis. (link)

  • Neural video compression with diverse contexts from Microsoft. (link)

📰 Unclassifieds

Short, sponsored links 

  • Practically.me is your digital clone, accurately mirroring your unique thought patterns, opinions, & style to do tasks for you, like you!

  • Common Magic is organising an AI hackathon in London on April 21-22. Limited applications for up to 150 participants. Learn more >>

  • Dan Shipper, CEO of Every, is teaching a workshop today 2:30 PM EST on how to use AI and ChatGPT to do your best writing. More information here >>

  • Leap is back with a hackathon in partnership with Zapier from 3rd to 8th of March. Register >>

  • Cyberfilm AI is looking for an App Developer. Learn more >>

  • Runway ML is hiring an AI Content Specialist. Learn more >>

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