GSV's AI News & Updates (05/19/22)
NYC Public Schools Reverse ChatGPT Ban, ChatGPT for iOS, Altman Testifies before Congress, GrammarlyGo, MedPaLM2, Zoom and Anthropic, AI to Navigate your Network, AI Girlfriends
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General 🚀
ChatGPT introduces app for iOS: the ChatGPT app syncs your conversations, supports voice input, and brings OpenAI’s latest model improvements to your fingertips. The app is free to use and syncs your history across devices. It also integrates Whisper, their open-source speech-recognition system, enabling voice input.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before Congress: OpenAI CEO calls on lawmakers to create safety standards for artificial intelligence.
Altman’s remarks come the day after he met with more than 60 House lawmakers over dinner. The bipartisan gathering, featuring roughly an even split of Republicans and Democrats, saw Altman demonstrating various uses of ChatGPT “to much amusement,” according to a person in the room who described lawmakers as “riveted” by the event.
Google Colab: will soon introduce AI coding features (code completions, prompt-based code generation, assistant chatbots) using Google’s most advanced family of code models, Codey.
Google launches MedPaLM2, new state of art for medical question-answering: Med-PaLM 2 scores 86.5% on MedQA-USMLE, exceeding Med-PaLM's score by >19% , & 81.8% on PubMedQA. Physicians preferred MedPaLM2’s long-form answers to answers from real physicians. Lay raters also consistently find MedPaLM-2 more helpful. More on Google’s latest health AI research here.
Perplexity launches CoPilot: your interactive AI search companion. Perplexity Copilot guides your search experience with interactive inputs, leading you to a rich, personalized answer, powered by GPT-4.
CEO of Zapier on putting AI and automation to work for you: two new AI beta features: creating a Zap using plain English and allowing users to customize workflows without writing any code.
Stability AI has announces StableStudio: a new open-source variant of its DreamStudio AI text-to-image web app.
Snowflake In Talks To Acquire AI Search Engine Neeva: Neeva, founded by former SVP of Google ads, aimed to be the “Google Search-killer” and was valued at $300M. Neeva’s underlying tech might be able to help solve a different problem: helping enterprises find information internally.
Zoom partners with and invests in Anthropic: Zoom will use Claude, an AI assistant built with Constitutional AI, to build customer-facing AI products focused on reliability, productivity, and safety.
Apple Restricts Employee Use of ChatGPT, Joining Other Companies Wary of Leaks
Education and the Future of Work 📚
New York City Public Schools remove ChatGPT ban: Chancellor of NYC Public Schools, David Banks: “ChatGPT caught NYC schools off guard. Now, we’re determined to embrace its potential.”
Grammarly Wants to Expand Its AI From the Classroom to the Office: the company is rolling out new features for its AI-powered communication assistant called GrammarlyGo and laid out its roadmap for an AI-connected workplace, which eventually will include the capability to summarize key points in a long email string, identifying whether the information is already shared within the organization and composing a reply. They also aim to integrate with other applications such as Slack and Gmail.
ServiceNow partners with Nvidia to develop ‘super-specialized’ generative AI for enterprises: ServiceNow is looking to build custom generative AI models for enterprises, fine-tuned to learn from a company’s vocabulary and provide accurate, domain-specific answers.
British Telecom to cut 55,000 jobs with up to a fifth replaced by AI
Italy allocates funds to shield workers from AI replacement threat
Startups and Tools 🛠️
Clay introduces Nexus, an AI to help you navigate your relationships and network: allows you to query your own network for insights. For example, you could ask Nexus who to invite to a dinner party in New York next week or who knows a lot about chip manufacturing among your connections. It’s like talking to your network as if it’s a person, then having it generate a list for you, based on its understanding of that data.
Brisk Teaching: eliminates the busy work of teaching - teachers can effortlessly automate their workflows, analyze and monitor student data, and create engaging curriculum.
Parthean: the world’s most affordable, powerful, & reliable financial coach — in your pocket.
Exemplary.ai: transform video & audio into engaging content. Generate summaries, video reels, transcripts, captions, translations & more with simple prompts.
MyShell.ai: create personalized chatbots called Shell with unique customizable knowledge integration, infinite memory, voice studio, multimodal integration and more.
Gamma: create a working presentation, document or webpage you can refine and customize in under a minute.
Superflows: reply to emails in 1-click with email summaries and pre-generated replies written in your voice.
GPTeam: a completely customizable group of AI agents, with independent personalities, memories, and directives.
DailyBot: bring ChatGPT and AI Workflows to your Work Chat.
Tech 💻
Project Ring: a wearable that lets AI see the world: it can hear using Open AI’s Whisper models, see using an image-to-text model, and speak using text-to-voice with Eleven Labs. Project Ring feels like having a curious friend on your shoulder - one who sees the world as you do and unobtrusively whispers thoughts in your ear. Punchline: it was 100% coded by GPT-4.
Numbers every LLM Developer should know: set of numbers for LLM developers to know that are useful for back-of-the envelope calculations on prompts, prices, training and fine tuning, GPU memory and more.
Exploring ChatGPT and open-source models on slightly harder tasks: comparing two open source models (Vicuna-13B, MPT-7b-Chat) with ChatGPT on tasks of varying complexity.
All languages are NOT created (tokenized) equal: language models cost much more in some languages than others.
GPT-Code UI: an open source implementation of OpenAI's ChatGPT Code interpreter.
Zoo: a playground for comparing AI text-to-image models.
Regulation and Policy ⚖️
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio: Governments must move fast to ‘protect the public’: Bengio is the latest in a growing faction of AI experts ringing alarm bells about the rapid rollout of powerful large language models.
Secretive Bilderberg meeting has AI at top of agenda: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will join forces with key leadership from Microsoft, DeepMind and Google on Thursday.
Fun/Other 🎉
An influencer’s AI clone will be your girlfriend for $1 a minute: CarynAI is the first AI companion product from a new startup called Forever Voices, allowing users to chat with a digital version of the fastest growing Snapchat star
HoopsGPT: analyze over 18,000,000 plays, 340,000 games and 3000 players with GPT.
Tom Hanks: I could appear in movies after death with AI technology
Harry Potter, The Musical: 100% AI generated images and song lyrics.
