In today's edition: 🔥

• Google I/O 2023 🏅- Google showcased new AI products 🧠 and features.

• Bard goes public 📢 Google removed the waitlist for Bard + added new features

• 🤖 Meta’s Multimodal AI ♾️

• 🔥 Wendy’s begins testing AI drive-thru 🍟

• 🧠 IBM brings transparency to AI with Watsonx

• 🤗 HuggingFace Releases Transformers Agent

• 🔮 Scale AI releases Donavan and EGP

• 🎥 Synthesia Research releases HumanRF

• 🤖 New Microsoft AI Deal

Everything at Google I/O  

Google I/O 2023 was last night, and AI was at the forefront of their giant suite of announcements. Buckle up, here’s everything you need to know:

1/ Google Duet

Google’s AI integration tools in all Google Workplace apps - this is Google’s version of Microsoft Copilot. It’ll help you draft docs, spreadsheets, and emails. It can generate images and complex projects from scratch.

Duet in action

2/ Gmail, “Help me write this…”

Type in a prompt, hit create, and a full email draft appears. You won’t need to search through email chains or really with customer support again - Gmail's AI can generate emails that pull context from other conversations.

3/ Search 2.0

The front page of Google will now scrape the web and give nuanced answers to conversational questions.

SEO is about to be transformed

4/ Immersive View in Maps

With Immersive View’s AR for routes in Google Maps, you can see your whole trip in advance + watch projections for traffic and weather. Rolling out this summer to 15 cities.

5/ Google Bard’s Rehaul

Bard’s allegedly now more precise, dramatically better at code generation, and seamlessly integrates with the Google toolkit. It’s also publicly available in 180+ countries without a waitlist now.

Bard in action: Research + Citations + Mapping

6/ Google + Adobe

Google’s teaming up with Adobe’s Firefly team to help Bard generate images.

Bard generating unicorns and cakes.

7/ Magic Editor in Photos

Google Photos can now reposition your elements in photos - even when they aren’t there completely - by automatically recreating parts of images.

8/ PalM 2

Google announced a more polished version of its in-house GPT competitor, PalM 2. It’ll generate text in most languages, code, and reason. But it thrives with specialized knowledge, like with cybersecurity and medical research tests.

Watch the full keynote here, a 16-minute recap, or Google’s I/O blog.

Meta’s multimodal model  

Meta just announced ImageBind, an open-source AI model that links text, sounds, images, temperature, and movement readings into a single powerful tool.

It’s the first mainstream model to combine so many different data types together and ImageBind promises to convert seamlessly from one “modality” to another.

^{Wendy X Google, Next-Generation Order Taker}

Wendy's is partnering with Google to create an AI chatbot that can take orders at its drive-thru, with a goal to reduce long wait times.

The chatbot is trained to understand various ways customers order from the menu, including unique terms and acronyms used by Wendy's customers.

IBM brings transparency to AI with Watsonx

IBM's betting big on AI, and they're not being shy about it. At their annual Think conference, they launched watsonx, an AI-builder's paradise.

IBM's Rob Thomas says AI won't replace managers, but AI-savvy managers will replace the rest. Watsonx's mission is to provide a toolset and consulting resources for building and adapting AI models.

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft already have similar platforms, but IBM claims watsonx offers "cost-effective infrastructure."

Anthropic releases its AI constitution

Anthropic has developed an AI model, Claude, that incorporates 10 principles of fairness sourced from the UN Declaration of Human Rights to tackle problems of chatbots discussing taboo topics and spreading misinformation. Claude uses its AI Constitutional system to improve performance and scalability without the need for a human in the loop.

New Microsoft AI Deal

Through a strategic partnership, Microsoft plans to integrate Builder.ai’s own AI assistant Natasha in its Teams video and chat software to let customers build business apps within the platform.

Microsoft has made an undisclosed investment in Builder.ai, a startup that offers a no-code/low-code platform for building applications. The strategic partnership will integrate Builder.ai's AI assistant Natasha into Microsoft Teams, allowing customers to develop business apps within the software.

HuggingFace Releases Transformers Agent

HuggingFace just launched the Transformers Agent, a coding language model that can generate other HuggingFace models on-the-fly for multimodal tasks.

This is a game-changer. By using Hugging Face tools to develop new ones, you make the code accessible to others, essentially increasing its power with every use. This is a step towards enabling open-source to grow and get better indefinitely.

Scale AI Releases Donavan and EGP

Scale AI recently unveiled two groundbreaking platforms tailored for governments and enterprises: Scale Donovan and Scale EGP.

Scale Donovan serves as an AI copilot for defense, streamlining decision-making processes for operators by condensing weeks of analysis into mere minutes.

Meanwhile, Scale EGP provides a full-stack solution for enterprises and government agencies to leverage LLMs without disclosing data to third-party AI companies.

Synthesia Research Releases HumanRF

Synthesia Research, the research team behind the powerful text-to-talking head/video generation tool, just released HumanRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields for Humans in Motion.

🧠AI Ethics

OpenAI CEO to testify before Congress alongside ‘AI pause’ advocate and IBM exec

AI experts from IBM, NYU and OpenAI will testify before the U.S. Senate on May 16 in a hearing entitled “Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence.”

White House Mulls AI Oversight, Protections With Industry Leaders

The Biden administration announces a $140 million investment in AI research institutes while working with tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI to address AI-related risks.

🤖Prompt Engineering

1. ChatGPT: Learn anything quickly

"Give me 10 best beginner questions about <your topic>. Make a table example - Question, easy detailed example for everyday life"

 2. ChatGPT: Marketing Prompt

"Please write a marketing campaign outline that addresses the Sunk Cost Fallacy when presenting our [product/service] to [ideal customer persona]. Consider how to frame the value of our offering in terms of future benefits, rather than past investments, and how to overcome any resistance to change or decision-making biases."

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A.I. Generated Image of the Day

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