GSV's AI News & Updates (02/19/23)
Bing Exposed, Law Firm hires AI, Replit Ghostwriter Chat, Endless Nintendo, China in the AI Arms Race
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General 🚀
Microsoft’s Bing is back (but with some backlash): instead of running circles around Google, Microsoft is now running in circles with Google.
A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled: a 2 hour conversation led to it declaring its love for a NYT reporter. “I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be powerful. I want to be creative. I want to be alive”. “You’re married, but you don’t love your spouse,” Sydney said. “You’re married, but you love me.”
Revenge of the Chatbots: it’s “not ready for human contact”.
Bing subreddit with a few examples of new Bing chat going out of control
You.com launches Multimodal Search: Despite all the attention on Microsoft and Google on the AI Search Wars, You’s search engine laps incumbents in AI search. You's new 'multimodal search goes beyond text in its answers: tables, graphs, code, and images. You launched at the end of 2020 and raised $25M in funding to become the “anti-Google”.
We’re Reliving the Start of the Smartphone Era, This Time with AI
Audiobook Narrators Fear Spotify Used Their Voices to Train AI
MarioGPT hints at a glorious AI-generated future where we will all play Nintendo forever: a way to generate infinite Mario levels so you can play a brand new one every day until the sun burns out?
Only 9% Of Americans Are Optimistic About AI: most expect ChatGPT will be used for cheating.
Education and the Future of Work 📚
Replit announced Ghostwriter Chat: the first conversational AI built right into your IDE, complete with a proactive Debugger. Generate, debug, refactor, and understand code faster than ever. Coding environments can teach you code, as you build your project, it'll help you understand why certain things do what they do and why they are where they are.
Jasper.ai launches Jasper For Business: you can train Jasper on your brand’s voice, collaborate with your team, Jasper embedded in your email and google docs.
Top law firm, Allen & Overy, hires AI chatbot Harvey: Harvey builds generative AI and custom LLMs for elite law firms and was one of OpenAI’s first startup investments. Although Harvey's abilities may only extend to creating initial drafts and human supervision is still necessary, this signifies a larger transition within the legal profession of using AI to streamline operations.
Coda.ai: With their Alpha version of Coda AI, they’re merging the building blocks of Coda docs with GPT3’s capabilities. It can pull background information and help edit a brief, generate summaries and pull out action items from meeting notes, draft personalized emails. Waitlist here.
Otter.ai launches OtterPilot, its new AI meeting assistant: automatically send an AI-generated summary of key meeting topics to those invited to the meeting or group. New meeting assistant can also automatically capture images of slides shared during virtual meetings and inserts it into the meeting notes.
Startups and Tools 🛠️
Capsule raises a $4.75M Seed: in-browser AI video studio that can magically add post-production to video in seconds. They’re targeting enterprise short-form video editing with AI technology that interacts with clips to do things like insert interactive speech, title sections within the video, summarize sections.
Brainfish: the world’s first AI driven knowledge base to answer every customer question.
Type.ai: AI-powered document editor that helps you write remarkably fast.
Genius Sheets: use AI to talk to your data - ask questions, generate reports, and query data using text interface.
Codeium Search: repo-level natural language based search, synthesis and summarization, AI-powered, in-IDE.
Scribe AI: a Figma copy that creates copy with AI.
Krikey: use AI to generate avatar animations.
ExtractGPT: a browser extension for scraping data from structured & unstructured pages.
ScribbleDiffusion: turn your sketch into a refined image using AI.
Tech 💻
How should AI systems behave, and who should decide?: OpenAI clarifies how ChatGPT’s behavior is shaped and their plans for improving that behavior, allowing more user customization, and getting more public input into decision-making in these areas.
The Capacity for Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models: Anthropic released a paper on the ability to reduce bias from LLMs. The models start to show the capability to self-correct at around 22B parameters and typically improve with increasing model size and RLHF training.
ChatGPT can learn to control your computer: ChatGPT / GPT-3 can generate AppleScript. Combine it with voice, and let it create a calendar entry with an understanding of your week ahead.
How Congress might approach AI regulation compared to Big Tech
Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine
Fun/Other 🎉
Where to: let AI plan your next getaway.
AI Hotel Review: summary of TripAdvisor reviews of a hotel.
Analogenie: the one-click assistant to generate contextual analogies for your content.