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Google is trying to keep up with OpenAI
China is finding its own unique ways to do the same thing
DuckDuckGo unveiled DuckAssistant, an AI search extension
Nothing Forever is coming back to Twitch
THE SLOW MOVERS NEED TO CATCH BACK UP
Prompt: two robots races to catch up Style: Steampunk
One of Baidu's highest trending search queries is “How to Use ChatGPT within China.”
College students, business owners, and the tech curious in China all want access to a tool unavailable in their country.
What are they doing about it? After all, AI is hard to train on censored data, so their largest companies are taking a lot of time, and fresh AI startups are a year away at a minimum.
Instead, people are resorting to the black market.
People looking to access ChatGPT are buying OpenAI logins and foreign phone numbers. That marketplace grows daily despite the government cracking down on this practice.
Other business-minded folks are creating ChatGPT knockoffs in TenCent’s WeChat by using mini-programs and charging per question.
Finally, some people are finding ways to circumvent IP law and access OpenAI’s API to use GPT-3.5.
China knows this is a problem. Their only solution is to move faster and try to push something to market as soon as possible. Every delay causes cracks.
On the flip side…
…Google only has one thing on its mind. In every office around the globe, AI is now the focus of every employee.
You’re either eating the dog food or helping throw spaghetti at the wall. There is no in-between.
The executive team knows ChatGPT’s first-mover advantage is a problem. Alphabet, as a whole, is a titan in AI, but not shipping product hurts its standing.
That’s why I enjoyed this Bloomberg piece a lot. To summarize it for you, from the outside looking in, this panicked push feels eerily like the Google+ movement.
If you don’t know about that, there’s a reason.
It did not end well, and we can only hope that Google’s AI code red goes a lot better.
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A VETERAN SEARCH ENGINE HAS JOINED THE BATTLE
DuckDuckGo, a search engine emphasizing search privacy, announced its foray into the AI race.
DuckAssist is only available on their app and as an extension, but this concept has many plans.
Right now, the company says that 99% of the sourcing done by this AI comes from Wikipedia. It’s a safe, effective way to provide generated answers that aren’t misleading.
DuckDuckGo wants accuracy and trust to come first.
Otherwise, any product they build goes against their mission of a safe, private search engine that provides the best answers.
What else? Oh, there are plans to allow topical questions to get answers from trusted media sources just as soon as we can all decide what real news is.
Regardless, in terms of AI search engine news, this feels like the last kid drafted for the kickball game. This sport (market) is something DuckDuckGo isn’t super interested in leading.
They’re searching for the “Instant Answer” in every query. DuckAssist gets them closer to that reality.
One last oddity: OpenAI’s DaVinci and Anthropic’s Claude power this tool. They manage to use the best of both worlds, and soon turbo is likely to replace DaVinci.
I think it’s cool to see those models play nicely together.
Quick Nuggets
🤫 Shhh, a secret AI startup started by ex-Apple employees recently raised another $100m
🧢 Steven Spielberg discusses artificial intelligence with Stephen Colbert
🗃️ Google gave Microsoft an opening, and WSJ goes deep into the story behind that moment
🔓 ChatGPT jailbreak celebrity, DAN, gets a rundown from The Guardian
🚀 Stonk-famous Citadel Group is negotiating an enterprise-wide license for ChatGPT
💭 Forethought wants to build better chatbots using constrained AI models
📚 Low-income schools are getting AI to help thanks to a Google, Microsoft-backed group
🪦 Back from the dead: Internet Explorer is back, only this time it’s not a Microsoft web browser—it’s an AI model
📄 Documents detailing facial recognition tech used by the FBI & Pentagon were obtained by the ACLU
🔞 Emma Watsons’s likeness was used illegally in deepfake ads
🌲 Stanford’s latest AI research discusses expressing overconfidence and uncertainty and its role in language models
🗣️ VALL-E X was published the other day. The AI allows you to speak foreign languages in your own voice
⚡️ More Power! Halio’s got a new AI chip, and it’s packed with more processing capabilities
🥨 These pretzels are making me thirsty; also, Nothing Forever is back on Twitch
🧠 Sentience: will AI ever achieve this lofty goal?
🎭 Enter stage left: rehearsals began for a new play generated by AI
💻 Laptop class: the type of workers AI is aiming to automate
❓ The next big thing in AI? Proving you are human
💰 Anthropic, OpenAI’s rival, raised over $300m at a $4.1B valuation
🔥 Fresh Products
ROASTED - in case you want AI to bully you (link)
Zuva - analyze legal documents, so you know what is up (link)
ChurchAI - get biblical advice powered by AI (link)
FinalScout - a buddy to help you find professional email addresses quicker (link)
Culturama - find out about a company’s real workplace culture (link)
Chat D-ID - a realistic avatar mixed with chat AI (link)
Asterix - you can write like you edit photos (link)
DAOhub - AI insights into your DAO (link)
Stocked AI - daily stock picks generated by AI (link)
Ludo AI - create a hit game using AI to assist you (link)
Vocal Remover - isolate or remove vocals from a track, something that used to be so tricky (link)
Magical - A superpower version of Calendly, essentially (link)
Dubb - creates marketing material for the podcast you recorded (link)
Staccato - helps musicians by co-writing their songs with them (link)
Good Content, Electric Mozart
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