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In today's rundown:
🚨 Sam Altman on AI: Potential pitfalls and harnessing potential
🎥 Text-to-video is here (sort of): Breakthrough for generative AI
👁️ GPT-4 for greater accessibility: Exclusive preview of Be My Eyes
🎉 Today's giveaway: 500+ best ChatGPT prompts
Read time: 5 minutes
🎉 Exciting news:
Due to the recent rapid advancements, we've realized that our bi-weekly emails aren't enough to cover all the important news.
We're thrilled to announce that we're increasing the frequency to 5 times a week, from Monday to Friday. As always, our updates will be and always will remain free.
This will allow us to cover all the significant AI updates, while maintaining our commitment to concise and digestible content.
A massive thank you to our readers for your ongoing support – this expansion wouldn't be possible without you!
Now, let's dive into today's newsletter, shall we?
🚨 Sam Altman on AI
In a recent ABC News interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the potential pitfalls of AI.
We found two quotes particularly impactful:
On AI taking jobs: "It is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs, that's true. We can make much better ones." [full video here]
His motivation for developing AI: "In terms of impact on our lives and improving our lives and upside, this will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed" [full video here]
Sam did an excellent job in this interview by acknowledging AI's challenges but also highlighting AI's potential to revolutionize industries and improve countless lives.
🎥 Text-To-Video is Here (sort of)
The first-ever open-sourced text-to-video model is out, and it's, well, interesting.
The model, available here to try on Hugging Face, is trained on a whopping 1.7 billion parameters.
We think it's "interesting" because it appears as if the model was actually trained on videos from Shutterstock. A lot of videos that it produces, have Shutterstock watermarks written across them.
For example, check out this Twitter post where someone created their own Star Wars movie clip using this model.
While it's incredible that text-to-video is here, our excitement feels somewhat damped by the fact that there are Shutterstock watermarks all over it. However, this is a giant leap forward, and we can expect even better text-to-video models very soon.
👁️ GPT-4 For Greater Accessibility
Be My Eyes, an app that allows blind and low-vision individuals to seek assistance from sighted people has just launched their new "Virtual Volunteer" feature.
The feature is the first to integrate the new image-to-text generator powered by OpenAI's brand-new GPT-4.
Users can soon send images to the AI-powered Virtual Volunteer, who provides instant identification, interpretation, and conversational visual assistance for various tasks.
We slid into Be My Eyes CEO Mike Buckley's DM's on Twitter, and he generously shared some never-seen-before exclusive access to the current use of GPT-4's image-to-text model:
The images he sent us were incredible, to say the least. GPT-4 was able to detect content from a TV screen from a small corner of an image and translate it in real time to another language.
Be My Eyes remains one of our favorite AI companies, demonstrating the powerful potential of AI for the greater good. We look forward to providing ongoing coverage of their progress.
Sign up for the Virtual Volunteer waitlist on their website here.
☀️Sunsama (Sponsor)
Meet the Tesla of Productivity Apps.
Many of the most impactful leaders know exactly what they need to accomplish before the day starts.
They use productivity apps like Sunsama to help them organize their weekly goals and smaller tasks to become the most productive version of themselves.
🔥 Trending
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Chat Thing- Chatbots for anything powered by data from anywhere (link)
PromptPal- Share and discover the best AI prompts (link)
MovieBot- Create, edit, and share AI-generated movies instantly (link)
GetBotz- Set your blog on autopilot with AI (link)
Bloop- Understand codebases with GPT-4 (link)
RATH- Data, exploration, and visualization with automation (link)
OpenRead- Experience the future with AI-powered interactive papers (link)
Storywizard- Create incredible children’s stories in no time using AI (link)
Easy Peasy- Create amazing content 10x faster (link)
My AskAI- Your own AI Q&A, powered by ChatGPT with no-code (link)
AI Gift for you- Search for gift ideas with AI based on personalized filters (link)
Cody- ChatGPT with bonus of being able to train it on business (link)
STORYD- Create data presentations in seconds (link)
Gitfluence- Quickly find the correct Git command (link)
Sizzlepop- Create custom t-shirts with AI (link)
AItinerary- Creates personalized travel plans in seconds using AI (link)
ConversAI- Respond to anything across any social media platform (link)
Magic Eraser- Erase unwanted background objects in images (link)
CanceledGPT- Finds old offensive tweets before you get canceled (link)
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🐦 Tweet of the day
20 jobs that GPT-4 thinks it will replace:
20 jobs that GPT-4 will replace, written by GPT-4:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
Mar 15, 2023
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