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• Apple joins the AI battle

• Baidu’s ERNIE was a disappointment

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Microsoft’s Thursday event featured a big announcement involving GPT-4, just not the news we expected.

It turns out they’re integrating the Large Language Model into their entire office suite. So your calendar, email, documents, excel sheets, and slides are all getting an AI upgrade.

There’s no “trusted testers” issue here. They will roll all this out with pricing and licensing details over the next month or so.

Microsoft is moving faster than Sonic after a Starbucks run.

Over 400 million people use their suite of tools, and the implications here are massive. Distribution at that level pushes more casual users in front of AI that would otherwise wait it out.

Don’t get it twisted; they're not integrating GPT-4 with Powerpoint and calling it a day.

There’s some extra work going into this product to make it perfect for companies of any size.

This LLM will focus on content and context for the entire company and ground itself in that knowledge.

For example, if you want an ad copy draft for a new product marketing launch, the AI co-pilot knows there’s a new product and remembers any notes from the other mediums you use, like email or Teams chats.

How we work is about to change, and many employees are about to be exposed to tools they didn’t even think about before today.

The announcement also shows we’re getting closer to a fragmented AGI possibility since Google and OpenAI are going in different directions here.

Let’s see what happens.

WE GOT MORE COPYRIGHT CLARITY

The US Copyright Office moves fast.

They announced a series of roundtable discussions with artists, AI researchers, and lawyers to figure out the boundaries of generative AI.

This news harkens back to an older post we did about a comic book that had its image protection rescinded since the creator used AI to make the panels. Real OGs remember that headline. 

The latest update clears the path even further.

To tell it straight: if a human has a part in the piece other than prompting, you can copyright the work. However, You must indicate where you, the creator, used AI in the workflow.

It’s better to get the rules in place now than watch this office fumble incoherently for a decade.

But copyright law is a tricky subject in general. One slip-up and all your works are in the public domain.

Yet, it seems the fight around prompting will continue.

People are selling prompts and trying to get sites to let them license them as we speak. It’s a growing space that needs clarity, or it will turn into the wild west.

Right now, the Copyright Office indicates they won’t allow people to license prompts used for generative AI, but I don’t expect that to be the last word.

We get so caught up in the final artwork that we forget to consider the work that goes into it beforehand.

What do you think? Pro-Prompt-Protection or Anti-Prompt-Protection?

My take: I don’t think we should sell prompts and prevent people from learning more about the process.

It’s a great entryway into the space, and gating it does not help anyone.

Quick Nuggets

🍎 Apple is working on a language-generating AI

🔥 PyTorch brings the heat with their new open-source machine learning project update

🧠 Stupidity: The Guardian wants you to slow down and stop calling AI smart

🏎️ Losing the race: here’s how Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant fell behind

🙄 Another case of someone tripping up ChatGPT and getting it to create false info

🐾 Baidu unveils ERNIE and people were…whelmed

🚪 Bing is removing the wait for their GPT-4 chat AI

🚫 Removed video: an AI company told this AI creator to remove his new video. Here it is reposted on Reddit

👩‍💻 GPT-4 designed its own programming language, because of course it can

🌋 Vesuvius challenge: resurrect an ancient library using machine learning to win $250K

😡 Bad news, jerks. AI forces more collaboration in the office, so no more being mean, got it

😮‍💨 Working less: recent AI innovations don’t mean we’ll stop working soon 

🔥 Fresh Products

• Mimir - gives you chat AIs as mentors (link)

• Alpaca - is on GitHub so you can run an LLM on your device (link)

• Emoji-Diffusion - turn emoji’s into artwork (link)

• Operand - your files build an AI-enable knowledge base (link)

• Caktus - is the home for student-focused AI tools (link)

• workifAI - helps freelancers build business proposals (link)

• mini-course - generates mini-online courses for you (link)

• Speedy - helps create content marketing for small businesses (link)

• Phenaki - a model to generate text-to-video (link)

• DISPUTE AI - helps you plan to improve your credit score (link)

• Meeple - sells a customer using their own words (link)

• listingcopy - helps real estate agents write listings (link)

• TrendingSpider - software to help you spot trading trends (link)

• LangChain - announces a new Zapier NLA API (link)

• Taxaroo - new AI tool answers your tax questions in seconds (link)

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