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February 10, 2023

Welcome to the first instalment of this daily newsletter. Bringing what's hot in AI into your inbox. 30 seconds each day. So, let's go.

First: How many times have you looked at a startup or service and simply not understood what they do? Like, what the f* do these guys actually do? Well, there's an app for that now, built on OpenAI's GPT-3. Link:

WTF DOES THIS COMPANY DO

Ask gpt-3 wtf does this company do

https://wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app

so many times i've visited a landing page and have absolutely not understood what its all about.
built something small to help me out✨
— krish (@krishnerkar)
6:39 PM • Feb 2, 2023

Second: Google has announced their response to ChatGPT this week. The name is terrible ("Bard"? Come on!) and their demo tanked the stock by 7.5% but as always, everyone is overreacting. This will be important so let's see what they do with it. So far, it's not public to use.

An important next step on our AI journey

Introducing Bard, Google's experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA — plus, new AI features in Search coming soon.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

Google shares tank after ChatGPT rival Bard’s mistake

Bard may still be in its testing stage, but the advanced chatbot was making factual errors as early as the first promo video.

https://fortune.com/2023/02/08/google-bard-ai-mistake-ad-stock-price-market-cap/

See you on Monday!