Singularity Society: Daily AI Thread
News
* Google researcher leaks an internal memo that says Google and OpenAI are going to get beat out by Open Source models:
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither?
* You may remember that CEOs of big tech met with VP Harris at the White House: Biden stopped by to tell them they had enormous potential and enormous danger.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/technology/us-ai-research-regulation.html
* “AIs got their own minds, and these motherf*ckers gonna start doing their own sh*t.” - Snoop Dogg on AI
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/snoop-dogg-on-ai-risk-sh-what-the-f/
Tools and Apps
* StarCoder: Hugging Face partnered with ServiceNow and has released a new "free" code-generating tool. I'll probably check this out as I don't want to pay for copilot for personal use:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/hugging-face-and-servicenow-release-a-free-code-generating-model/
* AlphaWatch AI: Conversational bot for learning about what's going on in Finance and asking questions, looks like this pulls in good recent data, I asked it about why Apple just announced a $90B stock buyback program and it gave a pretty good answer. Free to sign-up and play around with.
https://www.alphawatch.ai
* Movie Deep Search: Recommendation engine for helping you find your next movie to watch.
https://www.mycelebs.com/deepsearch/
* Cartographer: AN AI tool for VC's that generate market maps with different startup ecosystems, nothing super crazy novel here but it's pretty interesting. Not sure how this actually uses AI but...
https://chatg.vc