GPT-4 is Out This Week in ChatGPT 🤯

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The AI Bloke
March 16, 2023

You aren't ready for the amount of AI heading your direction... unless your name happens to be Sam Altman. Then this may be a little underwhelming. But only a little. 

DISCLAIMER -> The rest of this intro will be written in Old English for old time's sake

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Onwards, then, good fellows and fair ladies, to adventure and innovation!

News Headlines

  • GPT-4 Released!!! 😱

  • Google To Integrate AI with Gmail and Gdocs ✍️

  • LLaMA and OpenChatKit 🦙

  • General Motors Wants to Bring AI to Your Car 🚗

Bodacious AI Products — lil' Freaky Edition

✈️ An AI Flyby for the Week ✈️

Yeah, I'm not going to lie, I did not expect OpenAI to drop GPT-4 this soon, just like I did not expect President Obama to do a mike drop on Jimmy Fallon's Late Night Show, but here we are.

GPT-4 is here and it's here to stay. However, currently, it is only accessible to those with a ChatGPT premium subscription or those lucky few who have gotten off the API waitlist (someone want to slide me an API key 🥺). Yours truly is both broke and unlucky and hence I haven't been able to test it out myself. Also, if you'll remember way back in last newsletter, Quora's Poe chatbot interface will also be offering access to GPT-4, but unfortunately also through a paid subscription (discontented grumbling). Even though I haven't yet used it, the internet is a busy place and there is already a lot of info out there on the new capabilities and features of GPT-4. Let's dive in. 

1/ It's way, way smarter 🧠: GPT-4's reasoning skills and ability to handle complex tasks are superior to ChatGPT. Basically, GPT-4 == big brain. 

2/ It can understand images: GPT-4 is able to see and understand images. The model can apply logic to pictures, like describing, analyzing, and performing tasks on them. See it in action with the "napkin sketch to website" demo. Time to see if GPT-4 thinks I'm a looker (I think I already know the answer 🥲). 

3/ You can control its style:  GPT-4 introduces a massive upgrade to ChatGPT's 'steerability,' or the ability to steer the model's style in a direction you prefer and control the output to a higher degree.

4/ Token Limit 8x:  Remember how you would be using ChatGPT and it would cutoff because you reached the maximum token completion limit. Well, that limit just octupled. You're welcome. 

If you want access ASAP, apply for access here.

Well, as we've seen, Google doesn't like being outdone by other AI companies, so it's trying to make some of its product suites more intelligent, starting with gmail and google docs. Remember that email extension, Intellimail, we talked about on the newsletter way back when. The gist of it was write prompts for emails and have GPT fill in the rest for you. Essentially, Google has indicated they  want to add that functionality as an in-built capability of gmail. For docs and Google Workspace, there will be a similar prompting capability, allowing people to write whatever they need far faster than before. 

Google appears to be rolling out these features and testing with their superusers, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a host of AI-based upgrades in the Google product suit within the next couple months. Some of my predictions are that Google Slides will become more like Tome. And Google Sheets will allow you to type in English what operations you would like to do in cells and spreadsheets rather than formulas.

LLaMA and OpenChatKit 🦙

Remember LLaMA? Zuck and Meta's furry brainchild / ChatGPT competitor that got leaked to the public instead of sent to handpicked research institutions. Well, originally, the model required too much storage and computation power, making it relatively inaccessible to your average joe. That is until this legend (let's call him LLaMA Man) came along and changed all of that. LLaMA Man somehow compressed the LLaMA models into a manageable size for personal computer, making chatbot development accessible to everyone with a laptop. Thank you LLaMA man! 

And there's more! Some ex-OpenAI employees founded Together and released OpenChatKit - their alternative to ChatGPT. And unlike LLaMA before the leaks or the GPT models, this model is truly and fully open source sourced for anyone to see and replicate. I haven't the faintest clue how, but somehow it’s been trained with 100% negative carbon compute; it’s got customization recipes for fine-tuning to get yourself an expert chatbot; and it has a top-notch retrieval system to apply live-updating data to your models. 

Well, it wasn't the kind of AI you were hoping for in a car, but at least it's something. General Motors is floating around the idea of integrating a generative AI chatbot assistant  into their future vehicles. Imagine a roided up Siri (speaking of which, Apple's been awfully quiet on the AI front don't you think 🤨?) from which you can control certain aspects of the car and also converse with. If my car's chatbot starts backseat driving though, I'm going to have to find a way to turn it off. Let me speed in peace chatbot.

Now For Some AI Products 

PRODUCT 1: Hereafter — Live on as an AI 🤖

How would you like to live on forever as a chatbot? This app essentially interviews you about the important moments of your life and creates a digital avatar that others can interact with. It's not the Matrix, where you upload your entire consciousness into a machine, but it does have some similarities. Think of it like your personal biographer except instead of trying to publish a book about you, it tries to create a digital representation of you. But this means you have to give it precious memories, experiences, and stories. It will even copy and clone your voice if you choose to record these interview sessions.

This means your loved ones and future generations can interact and chat with this semblance of you, hence the name Hereafter. It would have been cool to see this product in action, but the demo video on their landing page doesn't load and I'm not ready to go spilling my guts to my phone so it can replace me someday. You are also supposed to upload images to go along with your memories and I plan to put this for all my images (not what I actually look like in case that needed clarifying). 

PRODUCT 2: Rewind.ai  — Search Engine for Your Life

Next up we have Rewind.ai. If you are concerned about your privacy and data, this is probably not the AI app for you. This application catalogues your every online action and makes it searchable. It basically gives you perfect recall into every action you have taken online. The founders story is actually quite interesting. He was going deaf until he tried a hearing aid and it changed his life. He was then inspired to provide a similar transformative experience and deliver what he describes as "AI superpowers". In his founding story video, he indicates that 90% of the memories we have are forgotten within a week 😳. 90 percent?! Yo, that hardware needs a storage upgrade. And Rewind is here to help you retrace your steps on the internet with perfect clarity and remember exactly what you were up to at any time. One of the cooler AI products out there in my opinon.

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

Where My Reverse Engineers At?

See if you can guess the prompt that was used to generate the image below (try and reverse engineer the prompt from picture in engineer parlance).

Whoever has the closest guess earns my undying respect and 5 bucks (if they have a crypto wallet). Here's the thread on my profile and comment whatever you think the seed prompt was for the image. If you don't want to do the challenge and just want to make some cool pictures, go ahead and Tweet those too! But I doubt they're gonna be cooler than these little guys! Also if nobody participates, the AI Bloke will be very sad. 

Here's the images for this week (HINT: GENERATED WITH 7 WORDS ): 

Let the guesses begin! I don't know how, but somehow this was initially created with a comma-separated list of 7 words. Basically, generative image models = very cool. 

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow (But Please Keep Reading LOL)

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