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We're incredibly excited by the rapid pace of development in the world of AI and honored to be covering it daily.

In today's edition:

• Breaking down Google's five-part AI manifesto

• Roundups of the top headlines and hottest product launches

• ChatGPT is getting an API!

• Memes - come for the news, stay for the laughs

 📝 Google's AI Manifesto

Google has been the top mad scientist in the AI space long before we were all swept up by the latest AI frenzy. The company's contributions include many of the breakthroughs enabling modern tools, including text generation and generative art models.

It wasn't until yesterday (and on a long weekend no less), that Google publicly outlined its perspectives and principles for AI development.

Let's break down Google's AI manifesto:

1. Google believes AI is the ultimate end-all problem solver for consumers and enterprises. The company envisions a world where powerful AI is accessible to consumers and every decision is made with its help. Google also believes AI research will directly solve real-world problems like public health crises, climate change, sustainability, and equality, not to mention enabling more scientific breakthroughs.

2) To what end? Google wants AI to benefit people and society. The company is keen on being an ecosystem developer — offering new AI tools, infrastructure, and state-of-the-art AI in its products like Google Search, Google Maps, Google Photos, and more.

3) Google understand AI research comes with complexity and risk. Priorities include safety, the responsible use of data, consumer privacy, and safe deployments. The company is aware of possible misuses like cybersecurity hazards, bias, information hazards, and worsening inequality.

4) Google has an approach to mitigating these risks: applying the scientific method, outreach to disadvantaged communities, keeping its ear to the ground regarding new potential risks, and being a responsible governance leader.

5) Google is open to collaboration. The company wants to hear from researchers, developers, deployers, academics, civil society, governments, consumers, and businesses. 

Google holds more power than most nation states. With the company spearheading many modern AI advancements, that power will likely only increase. For society's sake, let's hope Google doesn't abandon its AI manifesto like its "don't be evil" motto.

(Google AI)

🤠 Headline Roundup

The U.S. Navy set sail with its latest unmanned tech: drone boats. (The Wall Street Journal)

Nvidia's CUDA may lose its status as the dominant deep learning framework to PyTorch 2.0 and OpenAI's Triton, because they just sound cooler. (SemiAnalysis)

Nick Cave was not impressed with generative AI that tried to imitate his style. (Digg)

Toppan, a printing company, teased an AI smartphone app for deciphering Japanese cursive writing and potentially billions of historical documents. (The Japan Times)

The Conversation listed the shortcomings of applying AI to health care. (The Conversation) 

AI thought leader Nina Schick predicted that 90% of online content could be "generated by AI by 2025", and it's not all going to be made just by ChatGPT. (Yahoo Finance)

Universities attempted to get with the times by revamping their curricula for the ChatGPT era, as instructors scramble to keep up with the inevitable AI takeover. (The New York Times)

A rabbi used AI to deliver an "intelligent" but soulless sermon. (The Jewish Chronicle)

The New York Times warned how ChatGPT could hijack democracy. (The New York Times)

🥳 ChatGPT is getting an API

The long-awaited ChatGPT API is almost here!

OpenAI's preview of its language model has already taken the world by storm. Next up, an API could lead to the development of countless new innovations across language education, health care, mental health, and beyond.

Sign up for the waitlist

In the meantime, Microsoft made its Azure OpenAI Service, which the company unveiled in 2021, generally available. That means its customers now have access to the GPT-3.5 language model and DALL-E 2. They will "soon" get ChatGPT (maybe before the API?).

(Bloomberg)

🔥 Hottest Product Launches

• Gimme Summary AI - a free Chrome extension to summarize articles on the web (link)

• Adadot - a coach to help developers work and improve their work-life balance (link)

• Recommendix - an AI-powered e-commerce quiz tool to boost sales (link)

• SaaS AI Tools - 400+ free AI tools to supercharge your creativity and business (link)

• Feather AI - an audio-to-text summarizer for podcasts and YouTube (link)

💼 Hiring Corner 

• Machine Learning Engineer, Growth at Reddit

• Deep Learning Vision Engineer, Tesla Bot at Tesla

• Sensor Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla

• Machine Learning Engineer - Neural Net Optimization, Autopilot at Tesla

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That's a wrap for today. Stay curious and see you tomorrow! If you want more bite-sized content, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@jeremykuoo).