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Monday Morning Report - May 15th 2023
Hi folks! It’s been a minute.
Here’s a quick recap of the latest in AI for your Monday morning.
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📰 News
Google goes all-in on AI
Google just announced a ton of new things coming out at their annual Google I/O event. Here’s three of my highlights:
Bard - Google’s ChatGPT competitor - open to everyone
It’s FREE
Audio and visual input
Realtime internet access
Webpage summaries
Code explanations + integration with Replit
Duet AI integrated into workspaces
Use generative AI across Google Docs, Slides, Spreadsheets and more
PaLM 2 — Google’s new, efficient large language model powering products like Bard. Kinda like how GPT-4 is the backend to ChatGPT.
Already being used in the development of Med-PaLM 2, the soon-to-be-released medical chat engine from Google.
You can find the full list of announcements here.
OpenAI unlocks Plugins and Browsing
Remember when I talked about Plugins two months ago? Well now, in light of the Google’s announcements, OpenAI just unlocked Plugins and Browsing for its paid users.
We’re rolling out web browsing and Plugins to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week! Moving from alpha to beta, they allow ChatGPT to access the internet and to use 70+ third-party plugins. help.openai.com/en/articles/68…
— OpenAI (@OpenAI)
9:00 PM • May 12, 2023
Here’s what the Plugin store looks like:
So far, I’ve been using the Wolfram plugin, which is able to write full equations in the correct notation and give more accurate calculations based on WolframAlpha.
Simply go to Settings > Beta Features > Plugins and turn it on.
🛠️ Tool Highlight
ChatPDF (chatpdf.com) — basically ChatGPT for any document. Simply drag-and-drop your PDF and you can:
Generate summaries
Ask questions
Save your chat history
Having tried other article summary sites, I can say that this one is the easiest one to use so far. Give it a try!
🤯 Coolest Thing I’ve Seen This Week
AI-generated Lord of the Rings, directed by Wes Anderson. By far the best AI-trailer I’ve seen yet.
What if Wes Anderson directed The Lord of the Rings? We asked the community which video they want to see next and Lord of the Rings took the cake… or should we say Elven bread. We hope you enjoy this Midjourney to Middle-Earth.
#LordOfTheRings#WesAnderson#MovieTrailer#LOTR
— Curious Refuge (@CuriousRefuge)
9:07 PM • May 9, 2023
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