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?? It's chatbots all the way down
OpenAI has introduced CriticGPT, an AI tool designed to whip their chatbots into shape. It seems even AI needs a little constructive criticism sometimes - even (especially?) from peers. This new tool, trained on buggy code, will help human trainers spot those pesky errors that even the smartest humans might miss. But, as OpenAI admits, CriticGPT isn't perfect. It struggles with longer, more complex tasks and can't catch every single mistake. It's like having a grammar-savvy friend who only proofreads the first paragraph of your essay. It's a good start, but there's still room for improvement.
?? Closed-source for me but not for thee!
In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, threw some thinly veiled shade at his AI competitors for being closed-source hoarders who think they're building the "one true AI" – it's almost as if they believe they're creating God, he quipped. He contrasted this with Meta's open-source approach, suggesting it fosters a more diverse AI landscape that caters to everyone's needs. It's a beautiful vision: a world where everyone has free access to use open-source models... preferably within the very open and not at all closed ecosystems of FaceBook and Instagram.
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?? Perplexity, caught in scraper caper, might have to taper
Perplexity, the AI "answer engine" backed by Bezos and Nvidia, is in a bit of hot water for allegedly scraping content from sites that explicitly forbade it. Amazon, not thrilled with their cloud services being used for such shenanigans, is now investigating if this violates their terms of service. Perplexity, of course, denies any wrongdoing, claiming their bot only ignores the rules when a user specifically requests a URL, which they say is "very infrequent." But as they say, where there's smoke, there's usually an AI company illegally scraping data.
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How to: Social media "quote image" generator
Have you ever wondered how everyone on social media makes those nice-looking "quote images" to accompany posts/articles? This video tutorial walks you through exactly how to create automated image quotes for social media using Canva, Google Slides, and Make.com. By designing a template in Canva and setting up dynamic fields in Google Slides, you can automate the generation of unique quotes and corresponding images. The video also explains how to use Make.com to download the images and automatically share them on platforms like LinkedIn, streamlining the full end-to-end process of creating and posting engaging visual content.
What’s new?
Big UX improvement!
From the day we launched, we've had a very simple workflow: upload a document, wait for the AI to do its magic, then start reviewing/editing. Easy-peasy. Unfortunately when you've got hundreds of questions it gets pretty annoying to wait for the whole document to finish before you start the process of reviewing and editing.
As of last week there's no waiting! Now the AI-generated answers fill in as you watch, and you can get to work on early edits immediately even as our AI is completing the rest of the questionnaire.
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