What's up? You're reading Inclined.ai. Please give yourself a big round of applause for making it to Friday.

Here's how we're going to celebrate:

• Incumbents are bringing old problems to new AI concepts

• Pay attention to the exponential growth in text-to-sound generative AI

• Artificial Intelligence tries its hand at rocket science

• Chess bots are running rampant, and it’s kind of hilarious to watch

Microsoft Showcases The Power of Being Big

Yesterday, I told you about their new Teams offering with GPT 3.5 added to their product. It’s the kind of news that can turn you into a giddy schoolboy in an instant.

Then Tomasz Tunguz shared his thoughts on the space, and that schoolboy's smile turned upside down.

Tunguz lays out the full vision for how these incumbent giants can swallow every bit of competition possible in this space and leave no room left. 

Here's his thesis:

• The big incumbents have more data and capital, so their models learn better and faster

• Going to market (introducing your product to the public) is hard for new startups, whereas companies like Google and Microsoft already have distribution

• This is the most aggressive leap large tech companies have taken for any tech trend in recent history

Even Meta announced a new focus on generative AI during their earnings call. There’s enough data and experience for all the big players in tech to find out where the puck is going, snatch it up, and start their own game.

Don’t Fret; There is Hope

Things can feel dire when even Intercom and Ironclad try to beat new startups to the punchline in their markets. But we’re in the early stages of this AI Spring, not the end game.

New players need to get clever. Being unique and taking risks is an advantage all the fresh, new companies have.

It’s a familiar script as common as a Caterpie in Pokemon Red.

Here’s what I want you to walk away with: Google, Microsoft, and many others are key to this movement. Yet, that does not mean startups don’t have a part to play, so find them and support the ones you enjoy using.

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Tread It, Run from It, AI Comes All the Same

And music is its next target. Though I want to assure you artificial intelligence is not stealing your job tomorrow. But the fact it can write a resume means it might start applying for roles soon.

I read a great thread on how the 4 audio models that came out this past week are shifting the landscape around sound effects and music.

These changes might bring about the following:

• New, better ways to build out soundtracks and beats

• Higher-quality AI output (so it doesn’t sound like your old audacity soundtrack)

• Rich, multi-track effects that can be used in multiple mediums

What is the Future of Sound?

Robot Mozart is not walking through that door anytime soon, but exponential improvements are coming down the pipeline. Considering how fast DALL-E became DALL-E 2, I predict that that would be a modest outcome here.

Things will go even faster.

It’s exciting because here is the chance to do better work for less. The bar for quality sound beds will raise, and the harder work in audio will get more of the budget.

You know how it’s hard to hear anything said in a movie nowadays? Maybe, just maybe, this AI revolution will fix that.

For now, let’s enjoy all the new projects coming out and take one thing at a time. How does that sound?

Quick Nuggets

 📜 OpenAI Hates Shakespeare, or at least Macbeth confused the crap out of their AI classifier

♟️ New ways to suck at chess now that chess.com has seen a big increase in AI players

 ♻️ AI is trash collecting now and reinventing the way recycling infrastructure works going forward

 🇺🇸 The US funds Chinese AI companies at a high level over six years, according to Reuters

 🚘 Automotive AI will thrive as the interest in autonomous vehicles grows globally

 🏛️ Architects love generative AI and are using it to help them design beautiful new concepts

 🐝 Not the bees! Their population is on the decline, but BloomX’s AI concept might help

 🚀 It is rocket science and NPR’s Morning Edition observed AI’s attempt doing it

👀 Pichai says we're close to having a LaMDA LM with search components available to the public

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• Postwise - go viral on Twitter using AI (link)

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• Hidden Door - a narrative AI social roleplaying game (link)

• Nolej - E-learning automated by AI (link)

• Hugging Face - generate human motion (link)

• Opus.ai - text to video game (link)

• Triple Whale - has a new full-cycle AI ad engine (link)

Good Content, Fantasy Pikachu

See how many of these reimagined dark fantasy-inspired Pokemon you can name. Also, I am totally stealing this for my D&D game this Saturday.