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Here's what is brewing today:

• OpenAI reacts to criticism over their data policy

• Witness the first humanoid robots

• An editor fires Sydney

• Meet the world’s first AI government advisor

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SAM ALTMAN WANTS YOU TO BE COMFORTABLE

Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and let the soothing thoughts of an impending AI revolution carry you to relaxation. → That’s the vibe I get from Sam Altman these days. 

We missed a significant policy change at OpenAI in the noise around ChatGPT’s API announcement.

Any developer using their APIs will automatically be opted out of data sharing. The company stores any data it collects from opted-out users for just 30 days, and OpenAI will not use it to improve its models.

Wait, Then How Will OpenAI Improve?

Don’t you worry. The company still collects data from anyone using ChatGPT, and companies can always opt-in to the policy.

The change reflects an attempt to befriend more developers. The engineers and product people who integrate these APIs into their sites are sensitive about this subject.

They don’t want OpenAI sucking in all their user data like your friend playing Kirby in Smash Bros.

More importantly, these minor tweaks offer more extensive legal protections for OpenAI. The rising AI caseload is a taunting hurdle for these companies and any way to avoid going to court is a preferred path.

The policy is dramatically simplified, too. As a result, developers will feel more welcomed by all these subtle changes, and you can expect more startups to lean towards using OpenAI’s APIs over competitors.

Don’t forget branding is a big moat in business. Sam Altman and the company are pushing for that competitive advantage by making moves like this.

Expect more signaling like this as things progress.

A ROBOT FOR EVERY HUMAN ON THIS PLANET

Figure is a startup that officially announced its efforts to create the best humanoid robot known to man.

The CEO, Brett Adcock, is investing $100m of his own funds to make this dream a reality.

Why are they doing this now? The PR sprint capitalizes on their progress and better explains their mission. Better now than never.

Figure Needs to Distinguish Itself From Tesla

The latter announced in 2022 that they were working around the clock to create the first publicly available humanoid robot for general use.

Nothing about this dream is easy—for anyone.

People applauded Tesla’s Optimus prototype for walking without support last year, and decades of research went into that one problem.

Look, building a bipedal robot for general use is complicated, y’all. 

Figure wants to start where they are needed, aka industries with significant labor shortages like retail and warehousing. Then branch out.

Will they win the space? Maybe. The fact the company is willing to put in the time and money is exciting enough, and their alpha build, Figure 01, is already on the same level as Tesla’s attempt.

It’s not the AI robot war we all expected, but I prefer a corporate shootout to Skynet any day.

Quick Nuggets

❓ Machine Learning reveals elements of gender stereotyping 

🩺 Nice! A new study reveals ways machine learning can improve care for Rett Syndrome

💊 De-risking drug discovery is being made possible by machine learning

🧑‍💻 You’re fired! This editor couldn’t keep Bing’s chat AI on the payroll

🏹 Brave Search launched a new AI-powered feature for article summarization

🌱 Seeds of doubt in science are being sown by generative AI

🙃 Bummer: the lack of studies limits AI integrations in medical clinics

✉️ Transformers! Robots in your emails!

🫀 New Method: AI helps doctors identify organs for transplants more effectively

📈 Earnings Calls are flooded with companies’ comments on how they use AI

🤝 Meet & Greet: you should know more about OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati

❤️ Stop worrying and start loving our new creepy AI overlords; an article from Semafor

🇷🇴 Romania introduced the world’s first AI government advisor

💁‍♀️ Bing’s personality is getting a makeover to allow user customization

🦜 You are not a parrot. A chatbot is not a human. —that’s literally the headline

🍎 Apple blocks an app, BlueMail, from releasing its ChatGPT-powered update

🔥 Fresh Products

• Elephas - personal AI writing for Mac (link)

• Versed - coming soon: your universe (link)

• Brave - new AI summarization tool (link)

• Weaverse - page building for people who hate it (link)

• AI-commit - no more headaches over commit messages (link)

• Wordscope - translate your documents (link)

• First AI App - no-code for ChatGPt-powered apps (link)

• AIEM - esports powered by AI (link)

• Navan - Computer Vision Models in one click (link)

• LookUpYC - find the right article for the right advice via YC (link)

• Price Calculator - for CPT-3.5-turbo API (link)

• Onesta - personalized financial advisor powered by AI (link)

• Magical - make tasks disappear (link)

• Zomory - Notion’s missing search engine (link)

• Optimo - AI-powered marketing (link)

• Audyo - text in. audio out. (link)

• Pixelforge - verticalize any video (link)

• Isaax - easy-to-use AI assistant (link)

• ChatSonic - ChatGPT with superpowers (link)

Good Content, Breathing Terracotta

The Terracotta Army is so impressive to me. Watching them be brought to life with Stable Diffusion is so cool.

_{That’s it for today. I hope you enjoyed the latest edition of inclined.ai - Davis.}

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