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Welcome to Genuinely Artificial!

This newsletter will augment your reality with AI insights, automation, and antics.

I’ll be operating as your own personal researcher, data scientist, data analyst, and tech journalist all rolled up into one.

With your help, we should be able to reach 100% worldwide subscribership within 34 newsletters if we double each time. Seems doable.

It’s the 6th newsletter release and I’m happy to say we’ve officially doubled our subscriber base reaching one step closer to worldwide subscribership. 🤝

16 × 2 = 32 subscribers achieved (currently pacing ahead of this 😁)

32 subscribers × 2²⁹ to go. 🤷‍♂️ 2 ³⁴ ~ 8.6 billion population 🌎️

OpenAI board stuns the world by ousting Sam Altman and goes through two interim CEOs in the span of a weekend. Microsoft Ignite event identifies the company as “The Copilot company.” YouTube embraces AI holding hands with its artists.

Let’s get into it with…

TODAY’S DOWNLOAD

• OpenAI under new leadership

• Microsoft Ignite

• Create music with AI with DeepMind and YouTube

• Misconceptions about AI

• Detect speech and audio content with Netflix

AI NEWS & INSIGHTS

INDUSTRY NEWS & INSIGHTS

Emmett Shear pulled out of sabbatical to lead OpenAI

Twitter tweet

Shocking the world, one of arguably the most important startups of the last decade ousted its CEO, Sam Altman, causing a fast and immediate exodus of some of its best and brightest including fellow co-founder, Greg Brockman. The dust is appearing to settle and Emmet Shear will take the reigns as interim CEO of OpenAI while Sam, Brock, and loyalists will head to Microsoft to head up an entirely new company.

What’s the sitch?

Emmett’s three-point plan for the next 30 days:

1. Hire an independent investigator to dig into the entire process leading up to this point and generate a full report.

2. Continue to speak to as many of our employees, partners, investors, and customers as possible, take good notes, and share the key takeaways.

3. Reform the management and leadership team in light of recent departures into an effective force to drive results for our customers.

Why Emmett?

1. Strong leadership experience - experience as the previous CEO of Twitch and was one of its co-founders

2. Availability - was on sabbatical and could easily slide in without being pulled from another employer

3. Relationships and Trust - Shear has been working as a partner at Y Combinator where his old Twitch co-founder, Michael Seibel, is a managing partner. Sam Altman was president of Y Combinator until 2019.

Microsoft Ignite 2023

There were lots of announcements at Microsoft Ignite that were largely silenced while the OpenAI debacle unfolded on Friday and throughout the entire weekend.

The event had some key areas of focus

1. Rethinking cloud infrastructure

2. Extending the Microsoft Copilot experience (more in the next edition)

3. Reinforcing data and AI connection

4. Unlocking more value for devs with Azure AI

5. Enabling responsible development of AI

6. New experiences in Windows to empower employees

7. New Nvidia AI foundry service

8. Strengthening defenses in the era of AI

Copilot specifically will unlock productivity at scale for employees across all Microsoft Windows users.

AUTOMATION AND ANTICS

AUTOMATION ALLEY

Music Creation is made easy with DeepMind and YouTube

AI experiments are being driven by a partnership between Google’s DeepMind and YouTube to bring creativity to the forefront while allowing artists to lend their vocals in ways that previously were not possible while also allowing appropriate protections for artists.

Two AI experiments

Dream Track - create a 30-second soundtrack of your favorite artist for your YouTube shorts.

Music AI Tools - create instrumental scores with nothing but the sound of your voice.

ANTICS AVENUE

Misconceptions about AI according to Microsoft

Myths

1. AI will take everyone’s jobs

2. AI is only for people who work in tech

3. AI is one thing

4. AI is inherently biased and should be avoided

Our thoughts

AI might not take all of our jobs but with it and the advancements in robotics, it could. 🤔 

AI will likely make way for alternative jobs but it’s extremely unclear at what pace new jobs will be created and if it will be able to offset the jobs that are displaced. There is a very real reason why OpenAI and others are studying universal basic income.

TOOLS, TUTORIALS, & TESTIMONIALS

TOOL & TUTORIAL SPOTLIGHT

Detect speech and music in audio content with Netflix

Love film and TV? Who doesn’t? 

Netflix introduces a speech and music detection-enabling technology with some practical use cases.

1. Audio dataset preparation

2. Dialogue analysis & processing

3. Music information retrieval

4. Localization & Dubbing

Reproduce all experiments using the TV Speech and Music dataset on GitHub with supporting Python code for assisting research on speed and music detection tasks.

EVENTS & EPILOGUE

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

• 11/27-11/28 New York Technology Forum (link)

• 11/29 AI for Developers Meetup SF (link)

• 12/6-12/7 AI Summit New York (link)

• 12/10Microsoft AI Classroom Hackathon (link)

QUICK LINKS & RESOURCES

• Original Open AI Leadership change announcement (link)

• Open AI Board members that fired Sam (link)

• What is quantum Utility? (link)

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How can I make the Genuinely Artificial newsletter more entertaining, educational, and useful for YOU?

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Chris

Read time: 3.5 minutes

Welcome to Genuinely Artificial!

This newsletter will augment your reality with AI insights, automation, and antics.

I’ll be operating as your own personal researcher, data scientist, data analyst, and tech journalist all rolled up into one.

With your help, we should be able to reach 100% worldwide subscribership within 34 newsletters if we double each time. Seems doable.

It’s the 5th newsletter release and I’m happy to say we’ve officially doubled our subscriber base reaching one step closer to worldwide subscribership. 🤝

8 × 2 = 16 subscribers achieved (currently pacing ahead of this 😁)

16 subscribers × 2³⁰ to go. 🤷‍♂️ 2 ³⁴ ~ 8.6 billion population 🌎️

Git has taken over the world and AI apps are solidifying it’s adoption. Multi-modal models are here and GPTs are starting to pop up everywhere.

Let’s get into it with…

TODAY’S DOWNLOAD

• Git has taken over the developer landscape

• Automate your financial research

• Gobble up your files into one giant text output

• Build a multi-modal RAG

AI NEWS & INSIGHTS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Open source and the rise of AI in 2023

Annual Octoverse report by GitHub

Get on Git or get out! 93% of developers use it to build and deploy software around the world. Damn.

With the explosion of AI, developers are increasingly tinkering with AI models.

Three huge trends were seen on GitHub in 2023:

1. 92% of all developers are using or experimenting with AI coding tools and some open-source AI projects are entering the top 10 most popular projects based on contributor counts in 2023.

2. developers are increasing use of cloud-native applications (think infrastructure as code, Dockerfiles, and containers)

3. The largest number of first-time open-source contributors joined the platform though private projects are dominating GitHub accounting for 80% of its entire activity.

The report also plays global hopscotch, highlighting booming developer communities worldwide

Brazil, China, India, and the United States are currently leading the pack. It's like watching the Olympics, but for coding, with countries vying for the "Most Developers" title.

GitHub offers a sneak peek into the future, predicting that India might snag the gold medal from the U.S. in developer count by 2027.

AUTOMATION AND ANTICS

AUTOMATION ALLEY

Get SEC Insights in seconds for free

Easily and effortlessly analyze financial statements before your next stock investment. SEC Insights lets you save weeks or even months developing your RAG application.

Tool Highlights:

1. Ask questions to your docs, receive answers, AND understand how the answers were generated.

2. Get comprehensive insights across multiple documents

3. Receive responses with citations at the paragraph level so you don’t end up like this New York lawyer.

Use the source repository as a reference or fork it entirely to start your project.

ANTICS AVENUE

Gobble Bot: Get all your content into one text output file

This app turns everything you feed it into one giant text file so you can more easily feed it into your own GPT for training purposes.

Gobble gobble.

TOOLS, TUTORIALS, & TESTIMONIALS

TOOL & TUTORIAL SPOTLIGHT

Build multi-modal RAG with LlamaIndex while it turns 1!

With the introduction of the GPT-4V API, the RAG concept can now be extended to hybrid image/text use cases. Talk to your images and feel good about it.

prompt="Describe the images as an alternative text"

Typical RAG pipeline:

• Input

• Retrieval

• Synthesis

• Response

Build advanced multi-modal retrieval using GPT-4V

Steps:

1. use the GPT-4V class to understand multiple images

2. download mixed data file types to feed the model

3. build separate multi-modal index and vector stores for text and images

4. retrieve relevant text and image recording to image reasoning from Step 1

EVENTS & EPILOGUE

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

• 11/27 - 12/3 MongoDB @ Aws Reinvent (link)

• 12/7 Intel Enterprise GenAI Webinar (link)

QUICK LINKS & RESOURCES

• Google enabling large-scale health studies for the research community (link)

• Uber adopts SPIFFE (Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone (link)

FEEDBACK WELCOME

How can I make the Genuinely Artificial newsletter more entertaining, educational, and useful for YOU?

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Comment below or hit me up on X (formerly Twitter).

I look forward to seeing you in the next newsletter!

Chris

Read time: 4.5 minutes

Welcome to Genuinely Artificial!

This newsletter will augment your reality with AI insights, automation, and antics.

I’ll be operating as your own personal researcher, data scientist, data analyst, and tech journalist all rolled up into one.

With your help, we should be able to reach 100% worldwide subscribership within 34 newsletters if we double each time. Seems doable.

It’s the 4th newsletter release and I’m happy to say we’ve officially doubled our subscriber base reaching one step closer to worldwide subscribership. 🤝

4 × 2 = 8 subscribers achieved (currently pacing ahead of this 😁)

8 subscribers × 2³¹ to go. 🤷‍♂️ 2 ³⁴ ~ 8.6 billion population 🌎️

Grab a coffee because OpenAI made some big announcements and we don’t want to short-change you on the updates. GPTs are about to multiply like apps in Apple’s App Store. You can now build your own AI assistant. Elon’s xAI releases Grok chatbot that will likely be white noise during OpenAI’s tidal wave of a week and it’s only Tuesday.

Let’s get into it with…

TODAY’S DOWNLOAD

• OpenAI lets you create your own ChatGPT

• GPT-4 goes turbo and multimodal ⏩️ ⏩️ ⏩️ 

• GPT x Zapier 🤝 

• Elon’s xAI launches Grok model chatbot

• Learn how to create an AI Assistant

AI NEWS & INSIGHTS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Build your own no-code ChatGPT for specific purposes

OpenAI DevDay did not disappoint with some HUGE announcements. You can now create and share your own ChatGPT for custom use cases.

The GPT app store era has officially arrived.

OpenAI wants to lower the barrier to building and has made the creation of GPTs non-techy friendly with no coding required.

1. You can now build your own custom ChatGPT for unique use cases.

2. Create your very own writing coach, tech advisor, negotiator, and more!

3. Structured for personal use or company internal use, safety built-in.

4. You can create and share your GPTs publicly in the store launching later this month.

5. ChatGPT Plus took a breath mint to freshen up. Updated knowledge now includes real-world events up until April 2023.

GPT-4 goes turbo 🤯 

OpenAI announced several updates and new offerings.

GPT-4 Turbo debuts with 128K context, >300 pages worth of text in a single prompt.

• Price reduced by 3x 🤯 

• Improvements in function calling with enhanced accuracy

• Now multimodal capabilities including vision, DALL·E 3 for image creation, and text-to-speech

OpenAI also announced a significant price reduction across its platform and higher rate limits for developers. 🙌 

Additional announcements:

• They introduced Copyright Shield to defend and cover costs for customers against copyright infringement claims. 🛡️ 

• Further improvements have been made to Whisper large-v3 for automatic speech recognition and the release of the Consistency Decoder has been announced (photo examples still show progress to be made).

AUTOMATION AND ANTICS

AUTOMATION ALLEY

Supercharge your new GPTs with Zapier’s 6,000+ apps

Zapier announced its AI Actions tool made for builders to equip AI platforms or custom integrations with the ability to run any of the 20,000+ Zapier search/action capabilities.

How it works

You can use an AI assistant (like ChatGPT) with Zapier to run any action on its platform.

Examples:

1. Send a Slack message

2. Find a Google Calendar event

3. Draft an email

AI Platforms available

1. Chat GPT and GPTs - equip GPTs natively within ChatGPT

2. Zapier - use within Zaps or Zapier Chrome Extension

3. Custom - build private integration via a Rest API

ANTICS AVENUE

First “based” AI chatbot released by Elon’s xAI comes with real-time access to X

Twitter tweet

The team at xAI wants to create AI tools to assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge and with that in mind they have released their first product, Grok.

This AI chatbot is modeled after Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where it gets its name.

Key differences vs. other chatbots

1. Designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and a rebellious streak, humor included

2. Has real-time knowledge of the world via the X platform

3. Will answer spicy 🔥 questions often rejected by other AI systems

Grok-1, the frontier LLM model, showed promising results vs. industry benchmarks of similar compute size. Pretty impressive with a model that has only been in development for four months.

Evaluations using standard ML benchmarks to measure math and reasoning abilities.

TOOLS, TUTORIALS, & TESTIMONIALS

TOOL & TUTORIAL SPOTLIGHT

Build an AI assistant within your own application

Create an assistant that uses Code Interpreter with the following integration steps.

1. Create an Assistant in the API by defining custom instructions and picking a model. If helpful, enable tools like Code Interpreter, Retrieval, and Function calling.

2. Create a Thread when a user starts a conversation.

3. Add Messages to the Thread as the user asks questions.

4. Run the Assistant on the Thread to trigger responses. This automatically calls the relevant tools.

A more detailed tutorial is found here.

EVENTS & EPILOGUE

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

• 11/17-11/19 AI ATL hackathon @ Georgia Tech (link)

• 12/9-12/11 AssemblyAI hackathon (link)

• Machine Learning and AI hackathon’s list (link)

QUICK LINKS & RESOURCES

• Anthropic’s thoughts on US Executive Order (link)

• Is AI a Painkiller or a Vitamin? (link)

• Chinese AI Startup Hits Unicorn Status in 8 Months (link)

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How can I make the Genuinely Artificial newsletter more entertaining, educational, and useful for YOU?

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Chris

Read time: 3.1 minutes

Welcome to Genuinely Artificial!

This newsletter will augment your reality with AI insights, automation, and antics.

I’ll be operating as your own personal researcher, data scientist, data analyst, and tech journalist all rolled up into one. 🤓 

With your help, we can reach 100% worldwide subscribership within 34 newsletters if we double each time. Seems doable.

It’s the 3rd newsletter release and I’m happy to say we’ve officially doubled our subscriber base reaching one step closer to worldwide subscribership. 🤝

2 × 2 = 4 subscribers achieved (currently pacing ahead of this 😁)

4 subscribers × 2³² to go. 🤷‍♂️ 2 ³⁴ ~ 8.6 billion population 🌎️

Apple is trying to tackle code-switching by throwing more languages at its models and a Halloween-themed Angry Birds knockoff gets 1 million views in less than a few days.

Let’s get into it with…

TODAY’S DOWNLOAD

• Next Generation of AlphaFold

• NLP tackles Spanglish detection

• Research dataset storage

• Angry Pumpkins

• Parsing PDFs tutorial

AI NEWS & INSIGHTS

Research Repository

DeepMind’s Next Generation of AlphaFold

Prompt engineering is on the rage but what about protein engineering?

Google’s DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs continue to advance their AI model that promises to speed up biomedical discoveries.

The model offers a new understanding of:

• disease pathways

• drug design mechanisms

• protein engineering

• and more

The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database is publicly available for exploration.

NLP finds Spanglish hard, Apple aims to help

No no no. Say it in español por favor.

Spanglish is more commonly referred to as code-switching (CS) in Natural Language Processing. Code-switching is when we mix different languages in a single sentence.

Dime más, please!

Previous studies in CS speech showed some promising results for end-to-end speech translation but were lacking in two main ways.

1. limited to offline scenarios

2. limited to translation to one of the languages present in the source transcription

This new approach focuses on streaming settings and translation to a third language.

AUTOMATION AND ANTICS

AUTOMATION ALLEY

Sharing is caring on the Hugging Face Hub

If you’re a researcher with one of 360,000 models that are hosted on Hugging Face Hub it might be beneficial to store your datasets there as well.

10 Benefits to Researchers sharing their data on the Hub:

1. visibility for your work

2. tools for exploring and working with datasets

3. tools for loading datasets hosted on the Hugging Face Hub

4. datasets viewer (similar to Kaggle)

5. community created tools

6. spotlight - interactively explore your data with one line of code

7. support for large datasets

8. API and client library interaction

9. gated repositories (access restrictions)

10. digital object identifiers (register persistent identifier for your dataset)

More info on how to share your datasets with ease on the Hub

ANTICS AVENUE

There’s a safer way to smash pumpkins this year. 

The below X poster built an Angry Birds knock-off with some of the popular AI tools of the day. Code is provided if you want to replicate or build your own.

Who’s going to build the Thanksgiving Day version? 🦃 

Twitter tweet

TOOLS, TUTORIALS, & TESTIMONIALS

TOOL & TUTORIAL SPOTLIGHT

Parsing PDFs like a pro

This tutorial goes into depth on how to solve for extracting text from text-only layered PDFs. It’s a great place to start before jumping to more complexly structured PDFs.

LayoutPDFReader demo code is provided on GitHub covering:

1. Vector search

2. retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with smart chunking

EPILOGUE

FROM THE READERS

We received our first five-star review and we’re officially star-struck! 🤩 

FEEDBACK WELCOME

How can I make the Genuinely Artificial newsletter more entertaining, educational, and useful for YOU?

I’ll attempt to read your minds but most of my prediction capabilities are still centered around churn models. 🫣

Comment below or hit me up on X (formerly Twitter).

I look forward to seeing you in the next newsletter!

Chris

Read time: 4.1 minutes

Welcome to Genuinely Artificial!

This newsletter will augment your reality with AI insights, automations, and antics.

I’ll be operating as your own personal researcher, data scientist, data analyst, and tech journalist all rolled up into one.

With your help, we should be able to reach 100% worldwide subscribership within 34 newsletters if we double each time. Seems doable.

It’s the 2nd newsletter release and I’m happy to say we’ve officially doubled our subscriber base reaching one step closer to worldwide subscribership. 🤝 

1 × 2 = 2 subscribers achieved (currently pacing ahead of this 😁)

2 subscribers × 2³³ to go. 🤷‍♂️ 2 ³⁴ ~ 8.6 billion population 🌎️ 

Anthropic gets a massive investment from Google and also announces an alternative to reinforcement learning with human feedback. Spotify open-sources one of its libraries.

Let’s get into it with…

TODAY’S DOWNLOAD

• Anthropic gets investment from Google

• Constitutional AI set to improve human feedback training

• Waymo partners with Uber

• Spotify open-sources library of how they know your taste in music so well

AI NEWS & INSIGHTS

INDUSTRY NEWS

Google follows Microsoft’s playbook and invests $2 billion in Anthropic

Google agrees to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic as the companies leading the charge with large language models continue to stay red hot.

the sitch:

• Google follows Microsoft’s playbook by also signing a $3 billion multi-year deal for Anthropic to use its cloud platform

• Both giants are managing to essentially pay themselves while getting exposure to two of the hottest investments currently available which directly impact their larger business models at scale.

INSIGHTS

Human feedback for model training swapped out for AI-conditioned feedback

Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback may not be enough to curb problematic behaviors in conversational AI. Anthropic is taking an alternative approach through the creation of an AI model that would provide feedback based on only written principles like “do what’s best for humanity.”

Our thoughts:

• The paper genuinely suggests “both general and specific feedback principles have value for steering AI safely.”

• Initial principles seem generally agreeable but since these artificial intelligence models are controlled by a select few does that have them playing Moses?

AUTOMATIONS & ANTICS

AUTOMATION ALLEY

Launch your morning go-to websites with Python

Do you ever wake up having several news sources, social sites, and machine learning research papers to visit before you even start work?

Your time is precious and Python is here to protect it.

• Get a list of your favorite websites

• insert them into the code below,

• hit-run

• watch your favorite browser come to life with your list of favorite websites.

I check 20 websites every morning.

How many are you going to check?

# python package to open web pages on 
# default web browser
import webbrowser

urls = {'website 1: 'www.{insert_site_name}.com',
    'website 2: 'www.{insert_site_name}.com',
    'website 3: 'www.{insert_site_name}.com'
}

for company, url in urls.items():
    # open links in browser
    webbrowser.open(url)

ANTICS AVENUE

Waymo partners with Uber but who’s going to buy Lyft?

Google has loved not picking sides by giving money to both Uber and Lyft over the years in investment wanting to be “right” with whoever reached market dominance.

Well, as of today Uber has a market capitalization of ~$84B while Lyft is valued at <$4B.

I think the war has been won. 

The unanswered question: Who will buy Lyft to gain access to its 20 million+ users to leap forward the accessibility of autonomous vehicle taxi rides?

TOOLS, TUTORIALS, & TESTIMONIALS

TOOLS & TUTORIALS SPOTLIGHT

Spotify improves how well it already knows you

image source: Spotify R&D Engineering

Searching in a galaxy far far away Spotify has come back to us with a new nearest-neighbor library that helps us find items based on their similarities. Playlists have never sounded more uniquely you! 🎵 

Spotify engineers have been using it internally for almost a year with some of their products to focus on improving four major areas:

1. flexibility

2. statelessness

3. language support

4. cost

The Voyager library has now been open-sourced to be accessible to all with popular Python and Java options.

To try out Voyager, check it out at spotify.github.io/voyager or

pip install voyager in Python to get started.

FROM THE READERS

No feedback yet but I sense it’s coming soon. The creativity is starting to brew. 👨‍💻 

EVENTS & EPILOGUE

UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES

• 10/30 Apple Event 8 pm EST (link)

• 10/31 Google: Open LLMs on GKE - Llama 2 and Beyond (link)

• 11/2 Google: Gen AI 100: Getting Started with Gen AI (link)

QUICK LINKS & RESOURCES

• ML Papers of the Week (link)

• Langchain: chat with your data, 1 hour course (link)

FEEDBACK WELCOME

How can I make the Genuinely Artificial newsletter more entertaining, educational, and useful for YOU?

I’ll attempt to read your minds but most of my prediction capabilities are still centered around churn models. 🫣 

Comment below or hit me up on X (formerly Twitter).

I look forward to seeing you in the next newsletter!

Chris

Read time: 3.6 minutes

Welcome to Genuinely Artificial!

This newsletter will augment your reality with AI insights, automations, and antics.

I’ll be operating as your own personal researcher, data scientist, data analyst, and tech journalist all rolled up into one.

With your help, we should be able to reach 100% worldwide subscribership within 34 newsletters if we double each time. Seems doable.

Well… at least the math checked out. 🤷‍♂️ 2 ³⁴ ~ 8.6 billion population 🌎️ 

The White House is keeping busy getting ready to release an executive order next week and Citibank is salivating over Gen AI capabilities at its company.

Let’s get into it with…

TODAY’S DOWNLOAD

• White House to impose national rules on AI

• Citibank grants Generative AI Access to 40,000 Coders

• Gradio goes serverless

• AI Safety Fund being launched

• Build your personal coding assistant

AI NEWS & INSIGHTS

INDUSTRY NEWS

White House to impose rules on AI but they may lack teeth

image source: politico

President Biden is set to be issuing an AI-centric executive order next week. It’ll aim to guide the development of AI in the U.S. and encourage it to be done responsibly to curb potential job disruptions and other areas of concern to our economy.

Our thoughts:

• They’re genuinely trying to help add safeguards with this rapidly evolving set of technologies.

• The efforts may be somewhat artificial though since previous White House AI efforts have lacked enforcement power.

Citibank grants 40,000 coders access to Gen AI tools

This famous quote was about someone going bankrupt which is something Citigroup has no intention of doing.

The sitch:

Citigroup ran a 250-person pilot program to test out the use of Generative AI.

The results?

40,000 of its coders are getting granted access to these tools.

That’s a lot of predicted productivity gains. 💪 

AUTOMATIONS & ANTICS

AUTOMATION ALLEY

Gradio Goes Serverless!

Gradio-Lite

Bring Gradio directly to your browser.

No more server concerns when launch your Gradio applications.

The sitch: 

• With Gradio-Lite’s use of Pyodidie, a Python runtime for WebAssembly, you can now execute your Python code in the browser.

• All batteries may not be included though as Pyodide doesn’t play well with all traditional Python packages you might know and love.

Benefits of Using Gradio-Lite:

1. Serverless Deployment

2. Low Latency

3. Security and Privacy

ANTICS AVENUE

Too Little, Too Late

JoJo’s “Too Little, Too Late” is playing in my head. Why?

• Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI made a joint announcement stating they’ve created an initiative for a $10M AI Safety Fund.

• With the salary costs of AI talent, hopefully, the people leaning in are pro bono and willing to open their wallets a little more. Otherwise, that money is going to fly away pretty quickly. 💸 

TOOLS, TUTORIALS, & TESTIMONIALS

TOOLS & TUTORIALS SPOTLIGHT

Personal Copilot: Train Your Own Coding Assistant

If you’re looking for a weekend project look no further!

• You can create your very own coding assistant but be forewarned this isn’t for the faint-hearted.

• This tutorial clocks in at over 3,000 words and introduces a lot of technologies.

It’s well detailed but you’ll want a cup (or pot) of coffee. ☕️ 

Summarize news articles with the LlamaIndex hackathon-winning app

Do you wish all articles were written more like newsletters? Short and sweet? Me too. Maybe this app can help.

• NewGPT (aka Neotice) is a news consumption app that has four main components:

  • reliable news sources

  • tailored news recommendations

  • efficient information retrieval

  • time-saving reminder with a category distribution chart

• The app is in beta and the winning hackathon code is available here if you want to peek under the hood.

FROM THE READERS

No feedback yet since we just launched. I guess I’ll go back to talking with ChatGPT. 👨‍💻 

EVENTS & EXITS

UPCOMING EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES

• 10/31 What’s new in Gradio 4.0?

• 11/6 OpenAI DevDay - inaugural developer conference

• 12/14 Salesforce World Tour NYC (AI themed)

QUICK LINKS & RESOURCES

• Apple’s Siri Smart Assitant might become… well… smart (link)

• Oncoming AI Renaissance in Cybersecurity (link)

• Google’s Deepmind evaluates social and ethical risks from Gen AI (link)

• Habit 3.0: The path to socially intelligent robots (link)

FEEDBACK WELCOME

How can I make the Genuinely Artificial newsletter more entertaining, educational, and useful for YOU?

I’ll attempt to read your minds but most of my prediction capabilities are still centered around churn models. 🫣 

Comment below or hit me up on X (formerly Twitter).

I look forward to seeing you in the next newsletter!

Chris