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Thank you Ryan for that wonderful intro. I guess I have to try and make the newsletter extra funny this time around. Now,

It’s AI time.

News Headlines

• Microsoft Hitting Some Homeruns 🥎

• AI & the Economy: A Love Hate Relationship

• A Different Kind of DragGAN 🐉

• OpenAI Drops iOS App 😱

• Neeva Did I See This Coming 😂 

Bodacious AI Stuff— 1 Prank, 1 Practical Edition

• ChatShitGPT - Get roasted like never before with another sassy chatbot. Let me know which was better ChatShit or Roastedby.ai.

•  Dora - Build super stylish sites with a prompt or two. Even just their loading screen has enough CSS to make me nervous. How does it look compared to Microsoft’s recently announced Power Pages?

✈️ An AI Flyby for the Week ✈️

Microsoft Hitting Some Homeruns 🥎

Microsoft was battin’ like Sammy Sosa this week. The first piece of news is that they integrated their Copilot AI directly into their Windows 11 Operating System. This means it can actually execute tasks using the files present on your computer as well as write, read, and edit them. This could be a huge productivity boost for Windows users, having AI at their fingertips at all times. A really cool use case mentioned in the article attached below is that you could just tell the Copilot AI you need to focus and it would automatically adjust settings to ensure distractions are minimized.

@Apple, when are we getting something like this? Samuel L. Jackson is getting impatient.

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That’s not all. Bing also plans to bring plugins mainstream. To Bing, this means allowing their copilots to interact with other softwares and services (co-pilots refer to agents that help people perform specific tasks or use specific tools). Microsoft is opening up the same open plugin standard introduced by OpenAI, enabling developers to start making plugins for things like Dynamics 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Windows Copilot, and Bing. This means we should brace ourselves for a wave of plugins in the near future, considering just how many people use these platforms regularly (it must be nice being a tech giant and never having to worry about distribution).

And speaking of Bing, it’s going to be integrated with ChatGPT as the default search browser it queries for up to date information. Premium members should already have access to this feature, but it’s coming to free tier as well.

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AI & the Economy: A Love Hate Relationship 💔

Has ChatGPT and its ilk certainly taken many jobs and contributed to considerable tech layoffs? The answer is yes. However, you might be surprised to hear that despite the doom and gloom shrouding AI’s impact on the economy, AI was actually the reason for the S&P 500’s 9% rally this year. In fact, if you excluded AI stocks, the S&P 500 would actually be down a percentage point! Here are two of many AI companies with standout performances thus far:

• Microsoft (MFST) has surged over 32% this year thanks to their prescient investment in OpenAI

• Nvidia (NVDA), whose chips are fundamental to the AI boom, has soared 110% year. Let’s see if Meta can tap into these hardware gains with their new line of AI chips.

Goldman Sachs experts expect AI to cause a conservative 7% (or almost $7 trillion) increase in global GDP and lift productivity growth by 1.5 percent over a 10-year period. Goldman Sachs also predicted AI would increase S&P 500 profit margins by 4% after a decade of adoption.

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A Different Kind of DraGAN 🤖

This one doesn’t really breathe fire, although if you used it on an image of a dragon, it actually might.

DraGAN is a new image editing model that enables you to intelligently alter pictures simply by dragging points on the screen around. Yeah, it makes no sense until you see it at work. The paper has a bunch of really cool demos showcasing different ways you can use the model to modify pictures.

In simple terms, you start with an image, pick a few points to move or hold still, then ask the AI to re-imagine the image with those points moved/held still.

If you’re into photoshopping, this could be a level-up of epic proportions. Check it out!

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OpenAI Drops iOS App 😱

ChatGPT is coming to an iOS store near you! Well, if you live in the US that is. The app is going worldwide soon though, so you won’t have to wait very long (can you VPN trick the App store?).

And, guess what! Ing the app, models are paired with Whisper, OpenAI’s text to speech model, so that you can talk and get responses, just like any phone virtual assistant.

Siri might get a little concerned you are trying to replace her, so try and reassure her there’s nothing going on (as long as Apple delivers on those Bobcat Siri upgrades 😳). Also, just FYI, some premium features, like plug ins, are not yet available on the app.

Let’s all take a quick moment to be thankful that all those paid apps scamming people to pay for ChatGPT on the App Store will be forced out of business thanks to this. Hopefully those app creators find something better to do with their time instead of pulling TurboTax type hoaxes.

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Neeva Did I See This Coming

Neeva, the search engine that was supposed to give Google a run for its money (turned out they had a lot), is turning away from the search engine game to instead focus on building LLMs for companies. It was a good effort Neeva.

READ MORE HERE

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