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I'm looking for any way that this email has helped you in your job, for your company (getting users, investor interest etc), or otherwise. Reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to put together a Ben's Bites Year-in-Review (although we've only been around a couple of months!) Just reply here 😊 

The hackathon is in full swing and lots of projects are being talked about in Discord²⁸⁶ and submitted on our Hackathon page²⁸⁸. All you need to do is sign up on this page to submit²⁸⁸ your entry.

We've got $27k to give away and some awesome judges from StabilityAI/OSV, Hugging Face, Balderton Capital, Susa Ventures, and individuals like Sahil Lavingia, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Hiten Shah, Julia Lipton and Courtney Gertin. Full details here¹⁹⁸. Winners announced next week!

🤌 Ben's Picks

• Ellie - your email assistant powered by OpenAI that will learn your writing style and reply to emails as if you wrote them. (link^1,204)

• Harvard Business Review article, “ChatGPT Is a Tipping Point for AI”. (link⁵⁴⁰)

• “The future of writing interfaces”, a blog written by GPT-3 fine-tuned on 8 years of Linus’ blog writing. (link⁴⁹⁵)

• Google execs warn company’s reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology. (link³⁶³)

🛠️ Cool Tools

• Voicemode Text to Song - Tuna’s AI text-to-funny song generator. (link⁴⁰⁰)

• Cookup (Waitlist) - No-code ChatGPT app builder. (link⁶⁶⁴)

  • All AI apps and use cases of Product Management using Cookup. (link²⁹⁶)

• Awesome ChatGPT Prompts - A collection of prompt examples to be used with ChatGPT for better results. (link⁷³²)

• Baith-al-suroor - App to generate house interior design with AI for free. (link⁴¹⁸)

• TweePT3 (Waitlist) - GPT-3 powered Tweet writer that integrates directly into Twitter via a Chrome extension. (link³⁷⁷)

• AIChristmascards - Personalised AI art greetings cards for the season. (link⁴³⁵)

• Marketingideas - AI-generated ideas to grow a startup and attract customers. (link⁵⁴⁴)

• Hints - AI assistant to create and update tickets and sales pipeline from messengers, email, or SMS. (link³²⁰)

• Avatalk (BETA) - A Korean AI English tutor. (link²⁵³)

• Plz - AI-powered command generator. Copilot for your terminal. (link²⁵⁵)

• Orchard (BETA) - AI text editor for meaningful blogs, essays, and newsletters. (link⁴⁸²)

Join Discord²⁸⁶ | Hackathon¹⁹⁸ | Partner with us¹¹⁵  | Host or join a meetup¹²²

🎓 Learn

• How to build your own ChatGPT using OpenAI's GPT-3.5 using Python and Gradio. (link⁴⁴⁵)

• ​​Build your own AI avatar generator with Stable Diffusion in Buildspace’s next cohort. (link³⁶¹)

🔬 Research

• Who said what? Recorder's on-device solution for labelling speakers. (link¹³⁶)

• A new method for creating detailed 3D humans from images using artist-curated scans and deep implicit functions. (link¹⁷³)

• An approach for semantic imitation, which uses demonstrations from a source domain to accelerate reinforcement learning in a different target domain. (link¹¹⁰)

• A new paradigm for leveraging pre-trained vision-language foundation models to adapt to unseen tasks and environments. (link¹⁴¹)

• Reproducible scaling laws for contrastive language-image learning. (link¹⁴⁴)

• Image compression with product quantised masked image modelling. (link¹¹¹)

• Imagen Editor and EditBench: Advancing and evaluating text-guided image inpainting. (link¹¹¹)

• PhoMoH: Implicit photorealistic 3D models of human heads. (link¹⁶³)

👋 Too many links?! I created a database for all links mentioned in these emails. Refer 1 friend using this link and I'll send over the link database.

🤓 Everything else

• Compilation of the 2022 South Park Commons AI/LLM hackathon products. (link¹⁸⁹)

• All Runway’s marketing videos in one place. (link²¹⁴)

• Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won? (link²⁸³)

• A thread of improvements to the LLM interface by Langchain. (link¹⁴⁹)

• Artists can opt out their art from the training of Stable Diffusion 3. (link¹⁵⁴)

• A new interactive AI-Generated scene by Cristian Peñas. (link^174†)

• Every software app will incorporate AI. And AI-native apps will generally win over AI-retrofit. (link²⁵¹)

• ChatGPT in depth with Abran Maldonado, official OpenAI ambassador. (link¹⁷³)

• TIME article, “He used AI to publish a children’s book in a weekend. Artists are not happy about it.” (link²⁹³)

• EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware. (link¹⁴²)

🧑‍💻 Who's hiring in AI

• VEED.IO - Simple Online Video Editing. VEED is hiring AI / ML engineers⁷³ to level up its creative toolkit and make it more magical.

Add your company here⁹⁴ | Join the Talent pool⁸⁶

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👋 See ya