🏁 The Arms Race

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Kwadwo Adu
February 08, 2023

The Arms Race

I've know, it's been a while - I have been offline, enjoying some time 🏂🏽 in Austria, but now I'm back.

It's been a while since I sent out the last letter. A lot of stuff happened. As you might remember, I have been playing around with Sentiment Analysis → Based on the feedback I received, I thought it would be interesting to build a product that would allow people to get a sentiment analysis based on their Google Maps Reviews. I plan to share the product with you in the next newsletter.

Feel free to join my Discord 💬 community where people share ideas, experiments and much more or follow me on Twitter 🐦 where I will continue to share resources I find useful.

Favorite tools, reads or videos

Microsoft and Google are going all-in on their generative-ai arms race, and I can't wait to see what will happen over the next couple of months. Below I have shared some interesting tools and articles that I have been diving into the last couple of weeks, including some Microsoft and Google updates - more to come.

Microsoft went ahead an integrated multiple features based on their OpenAI collaboration, much faster than what I had expected. The features has been launched under their paid Premium subscription.

Google is launching Bard, which they state "Seeks to combine the breadth of the world’s knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models". They also invested heavily in their partnerships with Cohere, C3.ai and Anthropic.

🕸️ Co-pilot for the web →

The arms race is accelerating. The day before Google's search and AI event, Microsoft announced a surprise event where they launched the "Edge Sidebar." The search bar allows you to communicate directly with what looks like a customized version of ChatGPT, enabling you to "ask for a summary of a lengthy financial report to get the key takeaways, use the chat function to ask for a comparison to a competing company’s financials and automatically put it in a table. You can also ask Edge to help you compose content, such as a LinkedIn post, by giving it a few prompts to get you started. After that, you can ask it to help you update the tone, format and length of the post. Edge can understand the web page you’re on and adapts accordingly".

Google showcased a bunch of new features to its current product - and only a short demo of its ChatGPT competitor Bard. Follow the link to read a presentation summary.

OpenAI released a tool that predicts how likely it is that a piece of text was generated by AI from a variety of sources.

I looking forward to try this project by Runway enables you to use words and images to generate new videos out of existing ones.

"The example of Stable Diffusion suggests that if open source models reach a sufficient level of performance and community support, then proprietary alternatives may find it hard to compete."

✍🏽 Lavender →

This tool is an Sales Email Coach based on AI. It assists you in real-time to get more positive replies and write better emails.

Reddit users have tried to force OpenAI's ChatGPT to violate its own rules on violent content and political commentary, with an alter ego named DAN.

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Until next time 🤝🏽

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