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Writer: Sam
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‘Tis the season. OpenAI’s developer conference was this week and boy, did Christmas come early. The biggest gifts to unwrap:

1. GPT 4 Turbo. A new-and-improved model that has knowledge up through April 2023, boasts a 128k context window (aka you can prompt it with a whole ass book) and is 2-3x cheaper than GPT 4. Praised be!

2. GPTs. Set aside for a moment the fact that OpenAI is terrible at naming things. New “GPTs” are essentially small, customized ChatGPT versions that anyone can make. And when I say anyone - I mean it. GPTs do not require code. You type instructions for how you want your GPT to behave and what information to reference. You can upload specific data (e.g., all of your LiveJournal posts circa 2003). It can browse the internet, take actions on your behalf, AND… anyone can create a GPT and publish it to their upcoming GPT store. They’re even creating a revenue-share system to reward the best GPTs. Hot.

3. Assistant API. This is like GPTs on steroids, meant for developers to build AI agents (aka little bots who can perform little actions on the internet at the request of a user) directly into their applications. It works with several of OpenAI’s other models, and even remembers conversations with each user. Get ready for every website and app to have a text-to-action “assistant” capability launch in the next few months. How far will the hype-train go?

Fear and Coding. Andrew Ng is an AI OG and all around impressive dude. He founded the Google Brain team, led Stanford’s AI Lab, co-founded Coursera, and now runs two different AI startups as well as an incubator. This man has it with these mf’in AI doomsayers on the mf’in internet. In a recent newsletter, Andrew outlined the common tropes of AI anxiety (such as generating dangerous information, deepfakes, and eliminating human jobs) and calmly puts them into perspective. He calls out “large companies” (subtle) that have been lobbying for more legislation in order to give them an advantage over competitors (see: Bill Gurley’s talk on regulatory capture), and also highlights how people might have financial incentives to stoke the freak-out flames because sensationalism sells.

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