Bot Meets World: AI News, Tools, and Hot Takes Alex Furmansky

OpenAI recently introduced 'Assistants' and GPTs, an exciting development poised to create an entirely new app marketplace. If you missed the early days of Apple's iOS marketplace where you could make money by making a flashlight app, this is your chance with AI :)

In this episode, I explain what GPTs are + how to use them, as well as the upcoming AI app marketplace. I'll also explain the big impacts of these new features.

Here's the AstroTherapist GPT I referenced:
https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Z4Bf7xF6s-astrotherapytm

A common use case I've seen for AI is the ability to "chat with" your files and documents. It's the most common explainer I deliver on client calls. After listening to this short episode, you'll have a solid understanding of how these systems are built.

I'll explain everything at both the "explain me like I'm 5" level and the technical engineer level. I cover embeddings, vector databases, vector search, and GPT-based synthesis.

Examples of use cases:
Load HR policies and then employees can simply ask questions of their HR chatbot rather than HR staff. Load precedent legal contracts and then query for new clauses based on precedent Load all your personal financial documents and then query for personal tax planningIncumbent companies like DropBox have announced plans to incorporate such features. Countless upstarts have sprung up in the past 6 months promising to do this for enterprises.  Frameworks like Langchain exist for developers who want to quickly hack this together themselves. 

On this episode:
Dropbox launches chatting with your docsDatabricks does the same for enterpriseAdobe Firefly commits to defend you against any copyright infringement claimsCarnegie Mellon has robots that watch videos of humans to learn how to interact with the real worldYouTube introduces auto dubbingOpenAI competes with it's main backer (Microsoft)Thomson Reuters pays $650MM for Casetext's early GPT4 access and 8 promptsInflection nabs another $1.3B in wild funding round

On this episode:
The first AI-led church service (and the bigger picture)OpenAI's GPT support for API callsFinGPT - the LLM for all things financeRift between OpenAI/Google and Meta. Closed vs open-source direction (with ai music generator example)LoveStories.fyiAI meeting transcription (no moats!)

On this episode, we cover:
Incumbents strike backAdobe releases Firefly for enterprise (branding, image generation, copywriting)Hubspot campaign assistantGoogle enables access to latest Palm 2 model and offers a Generative AI Studio a la OpenAI's playgroundAlphaDev discovers a faster sorting algorithmRunway ML Gen 2 generates stock video footage from promptsOpenAI publishes GPT best practicesiOS transformers in typing autocorrect and speech to textPlus, we'll have this week's prompt of the week

On this episode, we cover:
Microsoft Windows OS Copilot (natively integrated AI assistant in your operating system)Google Search Generative Experience (major transformation for any brand doing search marketing)NVIDIA's stock price is soaring (and geopolitics)Anthropic's $350MM raiseAI drug discovery explanationPrompt of the week from Andrej Karpathy, a founding engineer at OpenAIVideo version here: https://youtu.be/IaW98HYu55I