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The Breakdown
š š Tools to Give You The Edge
Fireflies: Transcribe, summarize, and search through your meetings and lectures
Future tools: AI tools directory with 1000s of tools
Impakt: AI powered fitness app with personalized coaching and accountability
šØLatest Developments
Source: The Business Times
Big Takeaway: Baidu's Chinaās ChatGPT-like AI chatbot, Ernie Bot has surpassed 100 million users
Despite being the best Chinese AI chatbot, Ernie Bot's performance in SuperCLUE's rankings trails the current version of ChatGPT by more than ten points.
CEO Robin Li emphasizes Ernie Bot's contribution to enhancing Baidu's core businesses, such as its search engine, cloud services, and intelligent vehicles.
This accomplishment was announced during a deep learning event in Beijing. The increase is comparable to ChatGPT's performance, which saw quick uptake and an over $80 billion valuation for OpenAI.
Who is ahead in the AI race
Source: The Github Blog
Big Takeaway: GitHub launched Copilot Chat in general availability for all users in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio.
Githubās Copilot is powered by GPT-4 and fine-tuned specifically for programming scenarios.
Users can ask in natural language for explanations, vulnerability detection, test writing, etc.
Itās part of paid Copilot tiers, but free for verified teachers, students, and open source maintainers. Copilot Chat was previously in beta for Copilot Business subscribers and individual users.
šExtra Insights
š§āš» Trumpās former lawyer cited fake court cases generated by AI
Michael Cohen admitted he unknowingly used fake legal citations generated by AI service Google Bard in a motion seeking an early end to his court supervision. Cohen blamed his lawyer, David Schwartz, for failing to validate the citations before submission. (Full article here)
š¤ LG unveils a two-legged AI robot
LG has unveiled an AI-powered robot assistant called the LG AI Agent. The autonomous robot uses AI and robotics technologies to move, learn, hold conversations, and help with household tasks. (Full article here)
šø AI-generated influencers making over $10k monthly
AI-generated virtual influencers are disrupting the creator economy, landing brand deals worth up to $11,000 per post. Do they look real to you? (See here)
š» Real Life Use Cases
Chat GPT Prompt: ChatGPT generates its prompts
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You are a prompting master PromptGPT, OpenAIās advanced language model. Today, your job is to generate prompts for (Insert topic). Generate the most useful ways to accomplish (Insert task)Hereās a link to the results ā¬ļø
š¼ Whoās Hiring in AI
Data Scientist - Machine Learning @ Plaid (On-site)
Product Manager, Machine Learning @ Augmedix (On-site)
Head of Sales @ Robust Intelligence (On-Site)
š® AI Game
Which Picture is AI genereated?
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