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Here are all the headlines first:

• OpenAI announces ChatGPT plugins

• We go back over an AGI research paper

• U.S. Conservatives are building their own chatbot

• LowTech AI lets you create and share prompts easily, so I made one for you all

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CHATGPT OPENS ITS AI EYES AND EARS TO THE WORLD

The dog is off the leash. OpenAI is adding a plugin feature for ChatGPT that allows the Large Language Model to pull from up-to-date information.

One of the headlining plugins is “Browsing,” which allows this ultra-powerful chat AI to surf the web and give you precise information. 

The example they use in their blog post shows ChatGPT naming some recent Oscar winners and then reciting a poem about the winners. It’s the sort of thing only a cinephile could jump out of their seat for—it’s me; I’m the silver screen fiend who smiled like a schoolboy when I saw it.

Can you use this today? No, it’s a waitlist first. You can access it here.

The priority access is going to developers and ChatGPT plus users, so fork over $20 to move up in line.

My favorite analogy I’ve seen bouncing around online is comparing the launch of ChatGPT plugins to Apple launching the iPhone app store.

Companies will have a new battleground to compete for eyeballs and get users to adopt their products.

 For instance, you can ask ChatGPT for a pregame cocktail recipe and have it send the ingredients to your Instacart account. Then, you can ask it for a fun dinner spot near you and have it make reservations for you and your buzzed friends through OpenTable.

That’s one example, but the point is these plugins will create a whole new dynamic for users and open up possibilities.

You can even create your own personal plugin for ChatGPT to store data focused on your own use cases.

Don’t stress though, the Red Team did a lot of work on this tooling to ensure the most obvious ways to abuse this product don’t work. AKA, no one is going to create an email spammer or data phishing scam with the help of these plugins.

Everything you can or want to do with ChatGPT is about to get much more accessible.

Are you excited?

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GPT-4 OFFICIALLY OPENS THE DOOR TO AGI

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is what this is all about; every research team is chasing it.

The only problem is the fact no one defines it the same way.

For example, you and I might define AGI as a conscious, embodied AI that acts independently. That’s one way, but not the most scientific way.

I’m spending your time and our newsletter space on this topic because Microsoft’s team explored GPT-4’s ability to showcase general intelligence. 

Here’s what they did:

1/ They defined AGI for this experiment. 

To quote them

In other words, can it excel at complex thought in many areas?

2/ The researchers gave GPT-4 a series of tests to gauge its performance.

From music to text-based games, they put this bot through the gambit. Its outputs were measured against a benchmark and used to determine if GPT-4 displayed full-fledged intelligence in these areas.

3/ The team then concluded whether or not GPT-4 is AGI.

The answer is no, not yet. The best way to think of it is a proto-AGI.

If GPT-3.5 crawls towards general intelligence, GPT-4 feels a lot more like walking. The key from here is to find the unlocks that replicate the success of these next-word prediction models.

Ultimately, the pursuit of AGI will hit speed bumps, and I’d argue the headline of this research paper was a bit more hype than substance.

The real value you’ll get from reading this paper is understanding how we can test for AGI and push to find the full capabilities of LLMs.

The more we learn about AI daily, the more prepared we will be for the paper “AGI is Here,” which will come out someday.

Quick Nuggets

🐘 Conservatives are trying to build their own chatbot for political gain

🤔 An OpenAI board member stepped down after Elon Musk’s comments on the company

👩‍💻 Upskilling: Workera raised a fresh round to use AI to help with that

👀 NeRF2NeRF in a new research paper allows prompted 3D editing

🥲 Wow: this guy talks to his deceased dad through this new AI tool

🎨 Adobe shared more thoughts on generative AI and creator agency

🎞️ A rundown of some of the ways AI is affecting Hollywood today

🥸 AI tools are still struggling with avoiding misinformation; more reports are out

🥇 Bard 1: the new chat AI shows signs of integrating with Google Messages soon

🥈 Bard 2: But also, Google needed to deny claims that they used Gmail data to train Bard

🥉 Bard 3: Then later, a media outlet accused the chatbot of plagiarizing their article

🔥 Fresh Products

• LowTech AI - this will be the best place to find & share prompts—think GitHub meets prompt engineering (link)

• Motion - updated its AI-assisted scheduling tool (link)

• Consensus - focuses GPT-4 on answering scientific questions (link)

• debugcode - uses AI to help you figure out what’s gone wrong (link)

• Marcus Aurelius AI - speak to this ancient philosopher (link)

• Apply AI - answers the dumb questions during job apps (link)

• Codium - helps devs create meaningful tests with AI’s help (link)

• ArcaneLand - an AI dungeon master (link)

• Snowpixel - generates high-quality AI art (link)

• AskNotion - GPT trained on your Notion docs (link)

• Quizbot - quizzes you on any subject (link)

• Rask - uses AI to subtitle and dub your videos (link)

• Superpower ChatGPT - get extra functionality from ChatGPT(link)

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