Sunday Signal #2

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Hey friends 👋 ,

Each week I consume 500+ pieces of content in AI.

I filter them and send you the best, each Sunday.

I've added a new section: 'Startup Scene'. This will give you a peek at the week's best action in the AI venture arena.

It's a damp afternoon here in London as I write this (what's new with the British weather?) Time to dive right in!

Faking your life with AI, don't rely on ChatGPT and college essays are dead

Noteworthy News

• 🔗 Link: Using machine learning to kill cancer cells.

• 🔗 Link: Why we must be careful about how we speak of large language models.

• 🔗 Link: The college essay is dead. Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia.

• 🔗 Link: Understanding Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).

• 🔗 Link: Could ChatGPT challenge Google? Morgan Stanley's analyst note.

• 🔗 Link: AI trends for 2023.

Cool Creations

• 🔗 Link: Kyle Vorbach fakes his life using AI.

• 🔗 Link: Dan Shipper built a chatbot based on Andrew Huberman’s podcasts.

• 🔗 Link: Krishna built a tool to get answers to your programming questions.

• 🔗 Link: An AI model that composes music by visualising it.

• 🔗 Link: How to create a chatbot interface using OpenAI's API using Python.

Top Tweets

• 🔗 Link: A paper by Murray Shanahan on why large language models are not like human language-users. Here's a quick summary from ChatGPT:

• 🔗 Link: Don't reply on ChatGPT for factual queries (but it's great for creative inspiration).

• 🔗 Link: ChatGPT is kind of like that drunk guy or gal you meet at the bar who never stops talking.

Startup Scene (NEW!)

• 🔗 Link: OpenAI aims for $1B in revenue by 2024.

• 🔗 Link: Dataiku raises $200M late-stage funding round for “Everyday AI”.

• 🔗 Link: Shield AI’s $225M Series E for its military autonomous flying tech.

Weird DALLE of the Week

That’s all for today friends!

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Alex

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