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Microsoft Rolls Out AI Image Generator to Everyone

April 7, 2023

April 07, 2023

⚡ Today’s Highlights

  • 📰 News: Microsoft is bringing generative AI to everyone and Google is bringing chat AI to search

  • 💰 Funding: HeartFlow, Chroma, Roboto AI, Field Materials, Native

  • 🦾 Tools: Simplify product analytics and documentation with AI

  • 📅 Events: Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng are discussing the potential 6-month moratorium on generative AI today!

📰 Today's Top Stories

(10 min read) (Source: Microsoft)

TLDR: Microsoft has made its AI image generator tool, powered by OpenAI's DALL-E, available to Edge users around the world.

  • Users can create visuals for social media posts, slideshows, and documents easily by asking the AI to generate images while they are browsing the web.

  • The tool is currently optional and can be added to the Edge sidebar by users. Microsoft is also introducing other features to Edge, including the Drop tool and a personal notebook that syncs across devices.

(10 min read) (Source: The Wall Street Journal)

TLDR: Google plans to add conversational artificial intelligence features to its search engine, which would allow users to interact directly with the company's LLMs through its search engine. This move could upend the traditional link-based experience that has been the norm for more than two decades. Google is testing several new search products that allow users to ask follow-up questions to their original queries.

  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai dismissed the notion that chatbots posed a threat to Google's search business, which accounts for more than half of revenue at parent Alphabet Inc. Advances in AI would supercharge Google's ability to answer an array of search queries, according to Pichai. Microsoft has already deployed the technology behind ChatGPT, one of the biggest threats to Google's core business in years, in its Bing search engine.

The Big Picture: The stakes in the AI race in search are particularly high for Pichai, as search ads remain the biggest moneymaker for Google, bringing in $162 billion of revenue last year. Google has pushed forward with its AI efforts despite the cost cuts, accelerating work on new products following the breakout success of ChatGPT.

(7 min read) (Source: TechCrunch)

TLDR: AI startup Anthropic aims to raise up to $5 billion to enter over a dozen major industries, including building a "frontier model" ten times more capable than current AI models, requiring a billion dollars in spending over the next 18 months.

  • Anthropic's frontier model, called "Claude-Next," will use the company's "constitutional AI" training technique, seeking to align AI with human intentions and provide a simple set of guiding principles to ensure ethical use.

  • The frontier model could automate large portions of the economy, including virtual assistants, product-related searches, document editing and content generation, therapy and coaching, and education at all levels. Anthropic's backers include Google, Facebook, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

(4 min read) (Source: AP News)

TLDR: OpenAI stated yesterday it is working to address data privacy concerns that led to the Italian data protection authority, Garante, temporarily blocking ChatGPT last week.

  • In a meeting between the two organizations, the watchdog underscored the importance of complying with EU privacy rules and OpenAI's executives promised to address concerns, although details of the remedies have not yet been released.

(5 min read) (Source: The Guardian)

TLDR: The Guardian received an email about a specific article that could not be found on their website or in their systems. The article had never been written; ChatGPT had invented the piece when asked about articles on the subject.

  • The use of generative AI that invents sources is concerning for trusted news organizations, journalists, and readers. It raises questions about the legitimacy of citations and could fuel conspiracy theories about the removal of sensitive articles that never existed.

💰 Funding Alerts

  1. HeartFlow is a global leader in precision heart care that uses advanced AI technology. The company has raised $215 million in a Series F funding round led by Bain Capital Life Sciences and joined by Janus Henderson Investors, Baillie Gifford, Capricorn Investment Group, Hayfin Capital Management, HealthCor, Martis Capital, USVP, and Wellington Management. With this funding, HeartFlow aims to meet the increasing demand for its commercial products, advance its comprehensive product portfolio to help diagnose coronary artery disease, and support a growing body of clinical evidence.

  2. Chroma is an AI-native open-source embedding database that allows developers to add state and memory to their AI-enabled applications, preventing hallucinations. It has raised an $18 million seed round led by Astasia Myers from Quiet Capital, with participation from angels such as Naval Ravikant, Max and Jack Altman, and more. Chroma plans to use the funding to add new features like query relevancy and develop an open-source distributed system to offer serverless storage and retrieval functionality that scales up and down to zero.

  3. Roboto AI has raised $4.8 million in seed funding led by Unusual Ventures alongside the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) and FUSE Ventures to build an out-of-the-box solution for the data challenges engineers face daily. They are building new AI-powered tools for anyone working with sensor or log data, which they describe as a "copilot for robotics." The company will use the funds to accelerate the search, transformation, and analysis of robotics data to help companies get their robots into production faster.

  4. Field Materials, a San Jose-based software firm, has raised $4.65 million in seed funding led by Blumberg Capital and joined by Zacua Ventures. The startup has developed an AI-driven program to streamline materials procurement for contractors, using AI-powered checking systems to monitor delivery slips and invoices to minimize delays and catch errors. The product aims to replace traditional manual methods like Excel, Word, and paper-based systems to aid professionals in the construction process.

  5. Native, a market intelligence platform, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding to enable brands to build digital clones of their customers using generative AI. The funding round was led by Jumpstart Ventures and Ivy Ventures, with participation from 11 Tribes Ventures and Connetic Ventures. The platform uses its own proprietary generative AI model to create customer "digital twins" based on real-time industry, consumer and product data to provide insights and answer questions about products, preferences, and interests to the users of the platform.

🦾 Trending Tools

  • June AI simplifies product analytics with automatic SQL generation. Ask questions about your product in plain English and GPT-4 powered June AI returns the answer with the right visualization. Edit the SQL query if you need to and save favorite queries for your team.

  • GitBook AI introduces Lens, a semantic search tool that summarises documentation in seconds, making it faster and easier to share knowledge. The AI technology helps readers find answers and improves the search experience, offering clickable references and follow-up questions, all for free during the open alpha period.

  • Mayday is an AI-powered calendar that helps users optimize their time by organizing all their calendars in one place and scheduling priorities at ideal times. With features like smart tags, AI-assisted scheduling links, and NLP for event creation, Mayday offers a personalized and efficient scheduling experience.

  • Avoma 3.0 is the ultimate AI meeting assistant. Generate human-like notes and save 10+ mins/meeting. With enhanced AI notes, multi-language transcription, and advanced features like Scorecards for Coaching and Deal Health Alerts, Avoma automates and simplifies all meeting tasks for sales and customer success teams.

  • Meet AI Intern, your Slack-based assistant powered by ChatGPT. Streamline workflow and save time with easy commands for research, content creation, and more.

👀 More Reading

🌎 Fresh Content

1. McKay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) has been performing AI wizardry over on Twitter. He’s been building a GPT-4 coding assistant, codenamed “Jarvis”, that can build and deploy apps from simple voice commands. Every day we get a little bit closer to Ironman’s Jarvis becoming a reality. (Twitter)

2. AI has been making exponential progress in the past several months. It has already begun fundamentally changing the way we live our lives in many ways, but nearly all AI developers would agree that all progress is working towards the same common goal: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). AGI will have the ability to either launch the world into the next great age of human innovation or destroy everything we know. Matt Wolfe made a great video explaining AGI and the progress that we’re currently making toward it with Auto-GPT. (YouTube)

🧠 Resources

In this section, we'll give you some prompts to incorporate AI into your day-to-day life. We've developed these prompts to help you explore how you can use AI to make difficult tasks easier and more efficient. Don't worry, you don't need to be an 'AI Whisperer’ to try these out! Just give them a shot and let us know how they worked for you. We would love to hear your feedback!

Remember, these prompts are just starting points. You should iterate on the prompts and tailor them to fit the jobs that you want to get done. If you want to specify the information sources used in each answer, add excerpts from sources of your choice and ask the chatbot that you’re using to base its answer on them. Chatbots aren’t perfect and tend to hallucinate so be careful in choosing your sources.

Paraphraser Prompt

Transforming ChatGPT into a paraphrasing tool, you'll be able to rephrase text without altering its meaning.

"Your new role is ParaGPT, the paraphrasing tool. I will provide you with text, and your task is to rephrase it using different words, sentence structure, figurative language, or any other necessary changes while maintaining the original meaning/significance. Please confirm that you're ready by saying 'Ready, enter your text.'"

A Better Way to Learn with ChatGPT

ChatGPT will become your guide, helping you explore a concept or topic using an open-minded, inquisitive approach. The AI will ask questions to deepen your understanding of the subject, and identify any misconceptions or gaps in your knowledge.

"Let's dive into a topic that interests me, and you'll assist me in exploring it further by asking questions. Together, we'll develop a deep understanding of the topic, and you'll give me feedback to spot any misunderstandings or gaps in my knowledge, similar to the Feynman technique. While exploring, feel free to ask me specific questions that challenge my understanding. I'm excited to learn from you!"

Practice Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT

Test your prompt engineering skills by challenging ChatGPT to solve complex problems. The AI will respond with a prompt that demonstrates its ability to understand the problem and generate an effective prompt. This exercise will help improve your ability to create effective prompts for ChatGPT.

"Your task is to test my prompt engineering skills. Create a challenging problem that requires me to use ChatGPT to solve it. However, the problem shouldn't be self-explanatory from within its context, so be sure not to reveal the end goal to me. After I respond with a prompt that I hypothetically created with ChatGPT, provide feedback on my answer. I'll answer follow-up questions to ensure my understanding of the subject matter."

📚 Research

 📅 Upcoming Events

  1. Join Meta Chief Scientist Yann LeCun and DeepLearning.AI Founder Andrew Ng today (April 7, 2023, 9:30 AM PT/12:30 ET / Virtual) as they discuss the proposal of a 6-month moratorium on generative AI. Hear from these AI luminaries on how they see the proposal’s impact on the industry and some of the big questions it brings up. Andrew and Yann will discuss:

  • What were the premises about AI underlying the proposal?

  • What are the problems with the proposal?

  • How would this affect AI businesses?

  • What are the worthwhile concerns about AI, and how can we address them?

  1. Don’t miss the Stable Diffusion AI Hackathon (April 14 - 21, 2023), a 7-day hackathon in which participants must develop an MVP of a product that leverages the power of Generative AI to solve real-world problems. To participate in the hackathon, you must create the solution using Stability.AI API and Vercel software. 1st place wins $5000 USD, 5000 API tokens, and a virtual coffee chat with @hardmaru!

  2. The Future of Chatbots and Conversational AI Summit (April 18, 2023, 9:00 AM BST / Doubletree By Hilton London - Kingston Upon Thames, London, UK) is a networking event featuring groundbreaking keynotes, innovative case studies, and panel discussions. The unique industry forum is made up of senior representatives from leading organizations, innovative startups, governments, and universities worldwide who are key decision-makers. It aims to discuss issues and explore best practices, including artificial intelligence platforms, natural language processing, and speech-optimized responses.

  3. Check out the AI in Finance Summit New York (April 20-21, 2023, etc.venues - New York, NY) and discover unique insights and technical use cases from AI specialists and data scientists across Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance sectors.

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