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tuesday, 28 march, 2023

Deeper Learning

This week, we asked GPT-4 to make us an A-Z list of every term necessary to understand generative AI right now.

It missed a good few (AGI, anyone?) but one of the more interesting terms ChatGPT listed under ‘Z’ was ‘the Zone of Proximal Development.’

• 16-year-old: The Zone of Proximal Development is an idea from psychology that says people learn best when they're challenged but not overwhelmed. In AI, this concept can be applied to make systems learn more effectively by giving them tasks that are just hard enough.
• Developer: The Zone of Proximal Development, originally introduced by psychologist Lev Vygotsky, refers to the range of tasks that are beyond an individual's current abilities but can be learned with guidance or collaboration. In AI and machine learning, this concept can inspire curriculum learning, where models are trained on progressively more challenging tasks to improve overall learning efficiency.

When it comes to AI, are you currently in your personal zone of proximal development? 

Or are you feeling some AI fatigue?

Singularity slump?

Intelligent irritation?

Automation apathy?

Okay, okay, we’ll stop.

“It's incredible how much is being advanced and built but.... Many days I have the feeling of being overwhelmed by the constant bombardment and I need to disconnect a bit,” says the maker of ProductHunt without AI Products, José Pascual.

Like the name says, Pascual’s extension temporarily removes AI products from Product Hunt for those who need to take a little AI breather and prevent innovation indigestion.

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STORY

The ultimate A-Z guide to generative AI terminology

A disclaimer: This content is a GPT-4 experiment.

The prompt used was:

“Draft a 3,000 word A-Z AI glossary blog post for techies, founders, makers, product people, marketers, CEOs, and anybody interested in the subject of AI. Include all terms necessary to understand generative AI right now, and explain them in two ways: 1. terms that the "average" 16 year-old would understand; and 2. terms the "average" software developer would understand. Include 2-3 terms for each letter of the alphabet, and explain how each term relates to AI.”

What ethical considerations do you think should be taken into account when using AI-generated content for educational purposes?

How do you envision the future role of AI-generated content in blogging, research, academia, or industry?

Share in the comments

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NEWS

AI headlines of the week

• Another week, another Midjourney v5-generated viral image: The above image of a swagged-out Pope went viral this week. The creator, a man from Chicago, apparently had the idea to use Midjourney to create the viral image while on shrooms. “I just thought it was funny to see the Pope in a funny jacket,” he told BuzzFeed News. This follows the fake photos of Trump getting arrested, which were also generated by Midjourney.

• Sam Altman speaks: OpenAI’s CEO (and almost certainly Time’s Person of the Year for 2023), Sam Altman, sat down for a 2.5 hour-long interview on the Lex Fridman podcast, published on March 25. Don't have two and a half hours to spare? Read our summary thread instead.

• Another week, another flurry of AI product launches:
• Adobe launched Firefly,
• Google expanded Bard access, kind of, and
• OpenAI dropped possibly one of its biggest updates yet: ChatGPT plugins.
• Microsoft-owned GitHub also unveiled GitHub Copilot X, which will incorporate OpenAI's GPT-4 model for chat and voice support within the programming platform.
• Bill Gates weighs in: Speaking of Microsoft, did you hear Bill Gates published a 7-page letter on AI? Read our summary of that one here.

• THIS JUST IN: An open letter calling for a six-month pause on “giant AI experiments” like GPT-4 got signed by 1,000+ founders and researchers, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque. The big question: is this genuine concern about the dangers of AI or a way to slow down the competition? Join the conversation.

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28 NEW AI TOOLS

🧑‍🎤New category alert: GPT-4 versions of famous people

• Ask Naval (AI Chatbot): Life and business advice from Naval Ravikant using ChatGPT
• BookAI.chat: Chat with any book, using only its title & author
• Snoopstein: A GPT-4 powered rapping physicist chatbot who replies to users on Twitter.
• Marcus Aurelius AI: An AI stoic emperor in your pocket.
• CharacterAI: allows you to chat with “historical figures like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs.”

▶️ Research, recreation, and self-development

• Typist AI lets you use ChatGPT on any textbox on the web.
• AMA uses advanced NLP to read, understand, and help you reply to texts.
• WeatherMind GPT is a self-assessment tool to identify the links between weather and mental health.
• Quazilla by Squad is a GPT-powered habit coach for WhatsApp.

📣 Sales, marketing, and content

• Memejourney uses AI to turn your text into memes.
• Hookle is like an AI powered social media sidekick for growth.
• Tugan generates marketing emails in response to a topic or business URL prompt.
• PostPerfect AI provides real-time suggestions and improvements for tweets, with the ability to customize styles and improve readability.
• Logomakerr.ai is an AI-powered logo maker that understands logo design and branding best practices.
• Copylime creates blog articles in 60 seconds.
• Wavel AI generates human-like voices for a variety of applications including automated narration, text-to-speech conversion, and voice response systems.
• VoicePen AI generates transcriptions and blogs from audio in 96 languages, powered by GPT-4 and Whisper.

🍅 Productivity, HR, and collaboration

• Gamma AI is a new medium for presenting ideas, powered by GPT-4.
• OpenAI for Desktop is a desktop client app for OpenAI, ChatGPT, and GPT4.
• InterviewJam leverages AI to streamline and personalize your job search.
• ChaturGPT can read and summarize PDFs like bank statements, lecture notes, or legal documents.
• Waitroom uses AI to generate summaries and post-meeting analyses, with Slack integration.
• Use ChatGPT lets you use ChatGPT & GPT-4 on any website without copy-pasting
• typedesk x ChatGPT helps teams create and share reusable GPT prompts.
• Metaview automates writing interview notes to help hiring leads focus on interactions.

⚙️ Product management, design, and development

• Blend teleports product photos to professional-grade AI-generated backgrounds.
• Watermelon Pulse is a no-code GPT-4 chatbot builder for WhatsApp.
• CodiumAI analyzes Python, JS, or TS code and generates tests to catch bugs before you ship.

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LAST WORDS

Do you use AI-powered software to record meeting notes? If so, what do you use?

— Ryan Hoover

Join the discussion

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