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You aren't ready for the amount of AI heading your direction... 

Today's intro will be written by ChatGPT's best imitation of Snoop Dog. 

Yo, yo, yo, what up, peeps! It's your boy Snoop, aka the Dogfather, comin' at ya live from the world of AI. Welcome to The Week in ChatGPT newsletter, where we gonna keep it real and have some fun talkin' 'bout all the latest happenings in the AI community. If you got any cool stuff you wanna share with us, drop it like it's hot in the comments (reply to this email) or hit me up on Twitter, my homies. And if your crew sent you this email and you don't know what's up, don't trip, just subscribe and we'll keep you in the loop every week. Let's get this party started, ya dig? 

News Headlines

• How's China Doing in the Race For AI Supremacy (oh you didn't know it was a race?)

• Lawmakers Set Their Sights on AI (Please do not regulate us like crypto 🤞🏾)

• Just Pluggin' some Plugins 🔌

• Quora's Poe Giving Out Free Chatbots 🤖

• Anthropic Wants to be Top Dog 🐕‍🦺

Bodacious AI Products - 1 Practical, 1 Prank Edition Cont.

• AgentGPT: Deploy Semi-Autonomous AI Agents in Your Browser 😱

• BanterAI: Banter with Celebs Like Snoop

✈️ An AI Flyby for the Week ✈️

How's China Doing in the Race for AI Supremacy 🏎

Yeah, so in case you didn't get the memo, the recent explosion of AI progress has the entire world scrambling to develop the best AI models. The US is currently at the forefront of AI technology, but China's never far behind when it comes to tech. In fact, the last two weeks, when some people were calling for a moratorium on training new AI models, a commonly cited counterargument is that China sure as hell won't stop just because we did. 

Here's a high-level overview of the recent developments on the AI scene in China. A couple of weeks ago, Baidu, China's biggest search engine, launched their own AI chatbot Ernie. Ernie produced a lackluster response from investors and the public, unlike ChatGPT, which is banned in China. So I guess Ernie is like China's version of Bard (get roasted).

But the AI model game is heating back up in China as two major tech companies reveal their chatbots. Alibaba Cloud recently released Tongyi Qianwen, which translates to Truth from a Thousand Questions. And i'm not going to lie, that's a pretty cool name. The model is available to corporate clients  and is being rolled out in their Slack competitor as an assistant and summarizer tool. However, within days of the models big announcement, the CCP cracked down with regulations requiring companies to register their models with the internet authority, store data inputs, and capture user identities. In other words, disclose everything and stay in line or else ☭ 😳. 

The second company to release news about their ChatGPT competitor product is SenseTime. SenseTime's chatbot, called "SenseChat", uses more than 100 billion parameters and can write emails and stories, as well as code computer scripts. The company also developed their own image generator, a digital avatar creation platform like our equivalent of Lensa, and a pair of 3D modelling tools. Will SenseTime shape up to be the OpenAI equivalent of China? 👀

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Lawmakers Set Their Sights on AI 🧐

Last Tuesday, President Biden gave his two cents about AI to the public. He also met with his scientific council PCAST to learn about the rapid development the AI space is undergoing. This week, lawmakers are now beginning to focus in on AI and what it could mean for the country. 

I don't know about you guys, but whenever lawmakers get involved in tech, I tend to get a little teensy bit nervous. Like I'm sure the people over at PCAST are whip smart to be advisors to the president, but do regular lawmakers have access to the same depth of factual information about the expansion of AI? Hey man, I just don't want to end up losing to China cause we drafted some shitty laws.  

Some lawmakers are floating the proposition that AI models should receive certification by an auditing agency before being made available to the public. I don't know if the solution to addressing the societal concerns of AI is to sic an IRA for AI on this developing industry. I'd love to hear what other people think about government regulation of AI. Reply to this email and let me know!

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Pluggin' the Plugins 🔌

So, if you missed the whole deal with plugins, they are basically ways to allow ChatGPT access to interact with services on the internet. For example, a plugin that OpenAI built is the browsing plug in which allows ChatGPT to access and process all the latest news on the internet (whereas before ChatGPT just trained up till a certain point). Think of it as a value layer on top of the Internet that literally plugs into existing services and provides a natural language interface over them. For example, when Expedia creates their own ChatGPT plugin, you, the user, will be able to simply ask for Expedia to book the cheapest flight to Bali, specifying the arrival and return date and ChatGPT will get that flight for you. You get the idea. Very cool. Much AI. 

In the world of Plugins there have been some cool new additions. Unfortunately, before I tell you any of them, I will first remorselessly crush your dreams of using them as they are not yet available to the general public. I apologize on behalf of OpenAI, but here they are anyway:

1) A YouTube plugin that summarizes hours of video content if you don't feel like watching the whole video and just want the gems. 

2) DesignerGPT is a plugin that uses cool generative art to build beautiful and visual websites with English. 

3) The CEO of DoNotPay (the AI lawyers remember them from way back in Newsletter #3) created a plug in that can erase your data off of third party websites. They should call it the Data Dachshund. 

If you know about of any other ones I missed, please let me know! 

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Quora with the Free AI Merch (Your Own Personal Chatbot) 🤖

Quora's dropping some pretty cool AI merch and no, it's not a T-shirt! It's your very own AI chatbot 😧. So now if you head over to Poe.com (Quora's flagship  AI proudct), you can create and name your own Chatbot model. Don't believe me? The proof is in the pudding: I created Botty McShawty The Fifth and I believe anybody who signs up can access him for free as well! 

Now, why are they giving these chatbots away for free as long as you sign up? To be honest, no idea! But if you're going to give me access my own personal chatbot 24/7 for free, who am I to say no. As for why Quora is creating these custom bots in the first place, it sort of seems like they are creating a social media system for AI bots. For example, on my dashboard, I have the option to follow other bots. Am I witnessing the rise of (pause for dramatic effect) ... Instabots? 

So if y'all sign up and want Botty McShawty The Fifth to be your first follower, you know who to call and it ain't no Ghost busters. SIGN UP

Anthropic Wants to Be Top Dog {woof}

Anthropic, who you may know as "oh those dudes with the model not as good as ChatGPT, but they're not Google", is done being in 2nd place in the AI startup race. It's going for the gold. Here are the essentials of their takeover plan:

1) Claude-next — an incredibly named 10x improved version of their current model Claude

2) To do this may take as much as $1 billion in the next 18 months and the company is seeking to raise 5 billion for the next 5 years. Oh, so just a cool billy a year. No biggie. 

While this may seem like a big ask, with all the excitement around AI, Anthropic will probably have no shortage of interested investors willing to take the plunge. The reason being that nobody wants an AI market monopolized by OpenAI and Anthropic has the potential to seize a part of the enterprise AI market if they act fast enough. 

Anthropic's Series C fundraising round reveals its strategy to compete with OpenAI and take on major industries. Google, James McClave, Eric Schmidt, Jaan Tallinn, and Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz are among the backers, with Google pledging $300 million in Anthropic for a 10% stake in the startup (reminiscent of the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI). It will be interesting to see if this push will be enough for them to take the cake over the next couple years. I mean they are lead by two x-OpenAI employees, so they've got that going for them. 

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Now For Some AI Products 

PRODUCT 1: AgentGPT — Deploy Semi-Autonomous AI Agents in Your Browser 😱

Now what does that even mean. Basically, with this thing called Auto-GPT, researchers are trying to chain together LLM generated thoughts into an actionable sequence than an AI agent can follow to achieve their desired outcome. For example if you task the agent with taking over the world, like some people did with ChaosGPT, right now you get a couple failed polite requests for nuclear codes which eventually devolves into a tantrum on Twitter before the agent got discontinued (a polite way to say we terminated him). Now, people can watch these agents in action and see their "though processes". Just head over to AgentGPT and give it a task (don't be boring and go for world domination, it's already been done foo). For example, you could try and have it "win me the next nobel prize" in blank and see what it comes up with.

I'm going to keep this meme in here just because I think it's funny.

PRODUCT 2: Call Up Your Fav Celeb — BanterAI

What do you get when you combine realistic AI voices that can copy anyone with a LLM capable of imitating speech and written text as if it were from celebrities. You get BanterAI. Check it out!

They don't have Snoop Dog on it yet (I'll let you know when that changes), but they've got plenty of other big hitters like Barrack Obama and good 'ol President Biden. Talk with them and give them some advice on how to approach regulating AI why don't you. Let me know how the convos go! 

Remember, if you have any AI products you want featured you know where to find me: @TheAIBloke. 

Pretty Pictures With Midjourney 

Prompt: Bugatti roadster on a lonely Nevada desert highway, pointillism

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