In case you missed it: The Week in ChatGPT is rebranding to The Week in GenAI 🤖 (short for generative AI). The reason is definitely not copyright / trademark infringement concerns 🌚. Definitely not. That would be absurd. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.

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Before we get into the news for the week, I wanted to announce the release of a project that’s been in the works for a couple weeks. Thanks to the work of the one-man developer army over at getproduct.help, we lucky folks have access to our own AI semantic search for thousands of AI apps and tools. What is AI semantic search you might ask. Check it out here and find out for yourself (but basically you keep talking to our custom AI search engine and it finds you the best products matching what you are looking for like a virtual clerk!). We’ll be launching on ProductHunt Sunday, so please give us an upvote if you’ve got the time!

Now, get ready for a s**tload of AI...

News Headlines

• AutoGPT Raising Eyebrows 🤨

• There Goes That Man: Elon Makes The News Again 🤦‍♂️

• Google Scrambles to Implement AI Search 💨

• Amazon Arrives onto the AI Scene 🚨

Bodacious AI Stuff

• Ghostwriter: AI Dropping Music Now? 😱

• Replace Your Friends with AI for a Week (I know one I want to replace, you know who you are)

✈️ An AI Flyby for the Week ✈️

AutoGPT Raising Some Eyebrows 🤨

AutoGPT is an open-source experimental app that empowers GPT-4 to prompt and direct itself without human intervention, allowing it to complete real-world tasks across the internet. Basically, think of AutoGPT as this AI agent that uses ChatGPT and can run 24/7, spawn other AI agents, and access the internet via Google search. It follows a flow, where you give it an objective, and it breaks it down the objective into a series of tasks, with each task feeding into the next. To process each task, AutoGPT consults the internet via search and assembles its best response, which is then used to generate the next task and so on so forth. These AutoGPT models have been used for a variety of, let’s call them, unique applications. For example, a couple newsletters back we covered ChaosGPT, an AutoGPT applications that seeks to destroy humanity. Don’t worry, it didn’t get very far, so looks like the Terminator won’t be coming true for at least another week. Hurrah!

While AutoGPTs have potential for customer service chatbots, social media managers, and business mentors, they also have the potential to spend all of your money, post hate comments, or learn to think for itself and you won’t know until it’s too late. That’s because we can’t entirely predict what conclusions the agent will reach as it attempts to reason through the tasks it has generated from a users request.

Here was my first attempt at using a web version of AutoGPT. It was to become as rich as Bill Gates, but it looks like that one stumped AutoGPT to the point where it just decided it was a better use of energy to shutdown immediately. Tough.

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There Goes That Man: Elon Makes The News Again 🤦‍♂️

Have you ever notices how Tesla never has had to pay for ads ever and yet they are still number 1 EV manufacturer in the world. I think this is in part because Elon is their CEO and this man is making headlines almost every week. Almost to the point where if I don’t hear his name, I start to get suspicious about what shenanigans he’s up to. And man, he never fails to amaze me.

So, the dude has started his like eighth company (maybe ninth or tenth company who’s keeping track at this point) X.AI. Not much is known about X.AI, but it’s suspected its development is a response to Elon’s dissatisfaction with the trajectory of OpenAI. Here’s some stuff we do know about X.AI. It issued 100 million shares and is incorporated in Nevada (I wish I could do that every time I got annoyed with OpenAI). Elon also later deigned to tell the public that X.AI would be working on something he’s calling TruthGPT. It’s intended as a less-biased alternative to ChatGPT that aims to maximize truth-seeking. In a Fox News interview, Elon stated that TruthGPT would be an AI focused on understanding the universe. Elon made clear his displeasure with OpenAI’s chatGPT and its tendency to make up information and how it reflects its creators political biases and asserts TruthGPT would not have these shortcomings.

Elon also claims TruthGPT would be less likely to harm humans because it would be curious about them, much like we are about chimps (Right… well I’m certainly reassured by that statement). It remains unclear how far along the development of TruthGPT is.

Additionally, Musk has secretly started a major AI project within Twitter (recently renamed to X-corp), though the exact purpose of the project is unclear, but apparently it needs 10,000 GPUs. For reference, my MacBook has 2 of those thingies lol.

READ MORE HERE.

Google Scrambles to Implement AI Search 💨

Google is rushing to integrate chat-based AI features into Google Search to compete with Microsoft's Bing. The reason for this is that Bing is being considered as a candidate for Samsung’s default search engine since it got a move on the AI train early. This would lead to the potential loss of a 3 billion dollar contract for Google. Also, if, somehow, Google lost the contract to Bing, that would lead to a large jump in Bing’s search market size, which has been steadily creeping up since they integrated AI.

Google's new search features, called "Magi," include a chatbot for search, a coding assistant, an image generator for Google Images, music search, and more. The company has dedicated a team of 160 employees to Magi’s rollout and hope to release Magi to 30 million consumers by the end of the year. Hopefully they don’t botch this launch too. That would be reaaaallly Bard.

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Amazon Arrives onto the AI Scene 🚨

So some of you longtime readers may have been wondering, what the heck Amazon’s been up to while generative AI sweeps across BigTech. We’ve maybe mentioned their name once in the past couple months. Well, safe to say, we’ll be hearing a lot more from them from now on.

Amazon has announced its AI service 'Bedrock,' which allows clients to select from various cutting-edge models by AI21 Labs, Anthropic, and Stability AI. Bedrock allows businesses to customize foundational models using their own data (essentially provides a platform for fine-tuning models). Amazon's AI strategy is focusing on businesses first. Bedrock is currently building a waitlist and faces competition from OpenAI, Microsoft, Scale AI and NVIDIA. Amazon also released their own LLM called Titan (oh goody, another one) as well as a developer tool called CodeWhisperer (why do AI companies like the word Whisper so much). Amazon has also engaged in partnerships with prominent AI companies like HuggingFace and Stability.ai, so they are certainly revving up their AI engine as well.

 READ MORE HERE

Now For Some AI Products

 AI Dropping Music Now? 😱

So some of you may have heard this song going viral on various social media platforms. The song is named Heart on My Sleeve and it’s stirred up a huge controversy because the artist, Ghostwriter, apparently created this song using AI-generated voices for both Drake and The Weekend. The song has been removed from Spotify and will likely spark debates on the place of AI generated music in the industry.

Give it a listen and let me know what you think. I think it’s 🔥.

Also P.S. I found a better one, but I’m sure it will go viral within the next couple days. If you want it that bad though, lmk and I’ll drop a link. Anything for my subscribers.

Replace Your Friends with AI for a Week 

For any devs out there who want to get down and dirty with a little AI, follow this guide to replace your friends with AI. We all have that one friend that we wish could just… kidding, kidding. But, seriously is a very interesting read and very eye-opening to the kind of tasks AI can now fulfill. The dude who wrote this article is also almost as funny as I am. Almost.

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