🤖 AI Needs To Make Money

What's up? You're reading Inclined AI. And as summer turns to fall, we’re left with that feeling of change. Change that reminds us that our time is fleeting, and the world moves around the sun regardless of what happens in our lives today.

Here's news that won’t bring on an existential crisis:

• Tome is seeking big money despite low revenue numbers

• Making the case for a new Turing Test

• China is pushing GPU prices up

• ChatGPT now has custom instructions for everyone

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The Turing Test is getting pushed into the news a lot.

Mainly because many people assume that Bard and ChatGPT can pass the test if prompted to act human beforehand. But a recent article sparked a new understanding, and I wanted to summarize the main idea for you.

First, let me tell you a story.

When I prompt ChatGPT, my biggest pet peeve is the AI including emojis in responses, so I tell it not to in my custom instructions. Then, the oddest thing started to happen.

ChatGPT peppers in emojis from time to time and then puts something in parentheses like, “(I know you said no emojis, but…).”

WTF is the model doing to cause that?

The chat AI is teasing me and egging me on, right? However, I know that many of you see that as anthropomorphizing a machine. Therein lies the point behind the recent article in WIRED I wanted to share.

In it, Ben Ash Blum argues for a new social Turing Test—one that evaluates our ability to accept the human features in our robotic companions.

Blum spots a growing trend that we need to cut now.

Researchers, tech founders, and philosophers keep pushing to put LLMs down a peg and understate their ability. We overcorrected that way too much.

One day, AGI can become a reality. Why, then, do we jump towards some cold, calculating robot overlord instead of trusting that AI can develop with some sort of artificial empathy?

That’s Blum’s point. He believes in a balance between treating AI like a human and this rude, misguided approach that aims to put down this fantastic field.

Artificial Intelligence is its own kind of being, and even Turing would have recognized that.

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Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: revenue.

The world of startup ventures is enclosed and wacky. Sometimes they follow a specific trend for all startups, but then an idea forces all the venture capitalists to buck normality and spray cash around.

Generative AI is one of those ideas.

It’s a hot market, and all the cash-strapping demands for profitable business models appear to go out the door the minute an AI founder pitches to one of these funds.

Just look at the new Tome news reported by The Information. They want to raise at a $600m valuation, but they're not making the type of revenue to deserve it. That’s raising off hype, and it’s a big part of venture investing; I get that.

But do AI startups deserve the slack they’re getting?

Tome is not alone in its space; plenty of juggernauts (like Microsoft) infringe on its value proposition. So, yes, it’s great to see Tome with 10m users, but what would that number look like if there wasn’t a free version?

Let’s face reality, there’s a lot of saturation in the Generative AI space, and the winners will be the startups that land big contracts with large companies.

Revenue speaks louder than hype.

Keep an eye on these deals. Many of these companies will either grow into that valuation in a few years or sink under the pressure.

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🎮 Designing in Roblox is getting super easy with the help of Gen AI

🗣️ AI is redefining how we value and teach language education

📌 ChatGPT’s free users get to try out custom instructions now, too

• Pet Photos - generates unique & high-quality pet portraits (link)

• YouLearn - personalized learning experiences (link)

• Voiceling - quickly & accurately dub & translate videos (link)

• Supabase - write SQL without knowing SQL (link)

• Analytics Engine - build AI models & get predictions (link)

• MOTIV8 - create to-do lists w/ AI (link)

• TextFX - tools for rappers, writers & wordsmiths (link)

• SofaBrain - interior design ideas (link)

Ghibli Pokemon

Something about this feels so well-aligned. I want this as a full-blown movie, please.

_{- That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of inclined.ai - Davis.}