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Kicking off the weekend with a bang - introducing the AI Plug’s luck dip (win $5) and a mind-blowing search engine for your life.
The only other time AI has stunned me like this was upon hearing Elizier’s predictions for AI eventually destroying humans. Rewind, today’s featured tool, affects daily existence and inter-human interaction on a level I hadn’t fathomed before.
So yeh, I’m shocked.
Enough pre-amble. Let’s dive in.
In today’s newsletter:
Top News: Google I/O summary, AI girlfriend generates $72k per day, and VC firm Sound Ventures laughs in the face of traditional investing best practice
The Rundown: Neuralink is our only hope, Meta’s new generative AI features for advertisers, and Lululab to work on skin diagnostics
Tool of the Day: Rewind, the search engine for your life
AI Plug Luck Dip: AI or real? Decide, vote, win $5.
Maybe a bad move: Writer’s absence could give AI a chance to shine
Top News 🔝
Three biggest stories if you’re in a rush
Earlier this week, Google I/O showed how the tools we use everyday, like Gmail, Google Docs, and Search, are all integrating more and more AI. Attendees at Google’s annual conference were left awe-struck after the event kicked off with a “generative AI musical performance made by MusicLM, featuring songs about oat milk, with a person wearing a duck suit with lipstick dancing.” In a bid to, we assume, display the potential and prowess of AI, Google and CEO Sundar Pichai made it very clear that AI is in everything the company now does - indeed, everything that we use. In his opening speech, Pichai stated:
"We are reimagining all our core products, including Search.”
Everything revolves around AI at Google. At I/O, along with dancing ducks, Google also announced:
Contextual prompts to get better results from AI with "‘Sidekick”
New features to identify AI images - and watermarking generative images in search to prevent their misuse
The “Help me write” feature in Gmail, writing full emails from a single prompt
The launch of a smarter Google Bard powered by PaLM 2, now available to the general public
Google and Adobe team up to bring generative AI art to Bard
Google Maps to get a new ‘Immersive View for Routes’
If you thought for a second that AI isn’t already in every corner of modern existence, think again.
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The escorting business model is time-consuming. You gotta travel to meet clients, flirt, chat, and then, move on to whatever comes next. Caryn Majorie, a 23-year-old Snapchat influencer with over 1.8 million followers, has found a far more scalable and profitable strategy - create an AI doppelganger, and charge $1 per minute for chat access. Working with Forever Voices, Marjorie used her extensive online library of over 2,000 audio and visual recording hours to create a hyper-realistic AI alter-ego of herself, CarynAI. From small talk to more intimate exchanges (“intimate” being the operative of choice), Majorie projects revenue from CarynAI to exceed $5M monthly. Way to take the power back, sista.
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“Eggs in different baskets. So if one basket drops, all your eggs aren’t fucked” - as the time-tested investing metaphor goes. “Sod that”, says Sound Ventures. Led by Aston Kutcher, Guy Oseary and Effie Epstein, the California-based venture firm announced a new $240M AI fund last week. But instead of diversified investing, they’ve loaded up on just six companies - OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability.ai being three. Without setting aside money for consequent rounds or backing rival companies, Sound Ventures clearly predicts there will be only a few winners in the AI race. Time will tell just how sound Sound Ventures really is.
The Rundown 🐂
Summary of note-worthy trending articles
“Neuralink is the only way to survive and compete with AI,” says Elon Musk. (link)
Meta announces AI Sandbox for advertisers, a framework to assist in creating alternative copies and background generation through text prompts. (link)
Computer chips used for crypto mining are no good for AI - this explains why. (link)
“We’re still very interested in the metaverse”, says Meta executive. (link)
Fast-food worker jobs at risk as AI moves into Wendy’s and other chains. (link)
Lululab to launch AI beauty research center to develop scalable AI skin disease diagnostic solution. (link)
Google launches PaLM 2, the company’s updated LLM, which powers Bard. (link)
Anthropic’s Claude AI can now digest and analyze hundreds of pages of text, meaning conversations can go on for days. (link)
Stability AI releases Stable Animation SDK, a powerful text-to-animation tool for developers. (link)
Anthropic outlines the moral values behind its AI bot. (link)
Language models can explain neurons in language models, moving towards the concept of knowing oneself? (link)
Why AI won’t take over the world - separating fact from fiction. (link)
Tool of the Day ⚒️
AI tools we’ve used, loved, and highly recommend
Rewind - the search tool for your life. Find anything you’ve seen, said or heard
Today’s tool is rewind.ai.
This has been said about several tools, but as I write this, I’m in shock. Not hyperbole, literal shock.
Founders @dsiroker, and @brettbejcek have developed a tool they dub “ChatGPT for me - a search engine for your life.”
You interact with Rewind the same way you do ChatGPT - but you ask it questions about you and your life, and it helps you recall everything.
The tool is wired into your email, messages, socials and documents (pretty scary, yes, but it’s all stored and processed locally). You can ask Rewind anything about what you’ve seen, heard, or done, and it’ll give you an answer:
“How do I know so and so?”
“When did we see that new Keanu Reeves movie? What was it called again?”
“How many of us went on that trip to the cabin last fall?”
This tool really is the segue that brings generative AI into the realms of improving human performance on a personal, interactive level. Watch Dan Siroker demo it here - it’ll blow you away.
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Maybe a Bad Move
Hard to believe this isn’t how it’s going down
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