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🤖 The ChatGPT API Is Here
PLUS: Using AI in The Search for Missing People
Davis McCondichie
March 02, 2023
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It’s time to jump into it:
OpenAI owned the day with their ChatGPT & Whisper API announcement
Can AI help find missing people? An old case study has the answers
A Nividia rival in South Korea seeks a new valuation
Look inside Japan’s experiment w/ elder care automation
CHATGPT’S API: THE FLOODGATES ARE NOW WIDE OPEN
Engineers crowded their multi-monitor setups, pouring over the news—OpenAI is releasing a new ChatGPT API.
The update will rock the development landscape and change how companies create AI tools. Expect 1,000s of AI products that are nothing more than wrappers around this GPT to litter Product Hunt by the end of march.
Why is this so important?
Well, GPT-3.5-turbo is what powers ChatGPT. That same model is now open to every company with the money to spend. Yesterday, everyone was using OpenAI’s version of a Nokia and now has access to an iPhone.
Speaking of Money
The cost of using this API is low. OpenAI may use this as a loss leader to further its market hold over Anthropic and Google. But I wouldn’t count on that.
The volume of companies using this, mixed with the number of users they’ll get, makes this tool well worth the price tag for everyone involved. Plus, it’s 1/10th the cost of the API it’ll replace.
To give the actual numbers, that’s $.0002 per 1,000 tokens (around 750 words). Companies like Snapchat and Instacart are already using the API. That’s all the big stuff.
The “red-headed stepchild” in this news is the Whisper API.
Tons of engineers already use Whisper. It’s the most open tool created by OpenAI. So an API for it feels like a hat on a hat for some.
Don’t sleep on that update, though, because inexperienced software engineers will be able to get way more out of Whisper than ever before.
All this news means a rising tide has come and lifted all boats…and the nearby towns…and the nearest large metropolitan area.
What can I say? The ChatGPT API is a gigantic wave.
AI IS HELPING MISSING PEOPLE
I’m talking about Missing People, the UK charity. But that does not mean AI’s work on this project didn’t matter.
Believe it or not, this write-up is not about artificial intelligence searching for these people using CCTV or any other form of facial recognition.
That’s been around for quite some time.
AI Made People Pay Attention
Last summer, a generative AI company, D-ID, worked to revamp typical missing posters.
Like me, if you’re across the pond in North America, you’re sadly used to Instagram stories and Facebook posts about missing people. Unfortunately, thousands of people go missing annually in the US and the UK.
Yet, the posters made for these people are often unseen or overlooked. D-ID helped make a redesign possible.
The company turned the posters into digital billboards. First, D-ID used generative AI to restore the photos and make them less blurry. Then, they used advanced techniques to add motion to the images.
The plan worked. Visits to the Missing People website skyrocketed, and communities bolstered the search for these missing children.
Why am I talking about this now? Because we discuss so much about what artificial intelligence will replace that we forget what it makes possible.
These posters turned heads and reminded people of an issue they prefer not to connect with. That’s some powerful stuff.
Quick Nuggets
🥊 Nvidia rival, Sapeon, is seeking a $400m valuation for new AI chips
🤳 Social influencers are having their performance monitored by AI
4️⃣ These battlegrounds will shape the AI fight between the US and China
🦆 Qwak raises $12.1m for MLOps in its Series A1 led by Bessemer
🥲 Proud Alumni: My college’s paper wrote a column on VC’s role in AI’s future
🍳 A scramble by companies to add generative AI to their product is reaching its peak
📖 Learn: what these seven acronyms in AI mean
💼 Customizing models are opening up enterprise interest in AI products
🧮 Math is hard. No wonder ChatGPT struggles with word problems
🌟 Wow, Japan is experimenting with automating elder care
🧠 Uh, what? Scientists want to create AI using real human brain cells
⚙️ An Engineering student used AI to translate ASL in real-time
🌲 Stanford scholars examine how LLMs change at scale and outline their emergent abilities
📺 YouTube’s New Leader gave creators a jolt when he teased new generative AI tools coming to Studio
🔥 Fresh Products
gpt_status_jailbreaks - keep track of all the ChatGPT jailbreaks (link)
Parsers - AI shows possible VC investments (link)
CaseStudyWriter - engaging case studies in minutes (link)
Lucidpic - Stock quality photos, unreal people (link)
Heron Data - bank transactions into meaningful data (link)
AirASO - optimize for the app stores (link)
Dashworks - AI search assistant for work (link)
Paperade - visual research papers and their connections (link)
Wraith Docs - built-in Google Doc assistant (link)
ChessGPT - can you win? (link)
unschooler - personal AI-mentor (link)
SecondNature - AI-based sales training (link)
Connected Papers - puts similar papers in a visual graph (link)
Norby AI - human-like custom chatbot focused on care (link)
Nara - an AI nutrition assistant (link)
WhatOnEarth - ChatGPT-powered search engine (link)
Paxo AI - meeting notes for the real world (link)
Good Content, Reborn MF Doom
I’m not saying this is excellent work, but since we lost MF Doom three years ago, the world’s changed so much. It’s incredible to see someone attempt to recreate his style with these tools.
That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of inclined.ai - Davis.
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