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 Our picks 

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Has OpenAI’s GPT-4 model been getting worse? Users have been making observations and speculating for a month or so now, but a new study seems to prove it^2,069. The team gave it 500 problems that it tackled in March, and its score has dropped from 98% to 2.4%! Even on coding challenges, scoring has gone from 52% to 10%. Check out the comments on this Twitter post^1,638 for more discussions and critiques of this narrative^1,204 in this post.

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It looks like Apple might finally be jumping onto the AI chatbot bandwagon with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. They’ve reportedly got one of their own floating around internally: ‘Apple GPT⁵¹⁴.’ It’s slowly being made available to select Apple employees, and is frequently used for product prototyping, and we may be expecting a formal announcement sometime next year…

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We’re seeing a lot of investment popularity in the robotics space at the mo, and the latest is this $55m investment in Neura Robotics⁵³⁹. They’ve had success lately in developing ‘cognitive’ robots - those that have memory, can operate across mixing variables, and collaborate with humans. Weeeiiiiird, but damn cool. Imagine some physical human-like collaboration robot running around the house.

 From the community 

• The semantic kernel hackathon focused all on plugins! RSVP here¹⁶⁴

 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Text from my ex^1,414 - Analyze your chats for a sassy report of your relationship dynamics.

• Chroma V0.4³⁶⁷ - Production-oriented updates with easy-to-use API for embeddings storage.

• Belva⁸⁴¹ - AI phone calling with 5 lines of code.

• SuperAGI introduces AACP⁴⁴¹ - Agent to agent communication protocol.

• ProductAI^1,031 - Generate e-commerce product photos worth posting.

• Morpher AI⁸⁶⁹ - A comprehensive tool for financial market analysis that acts as your personal investment analyst.

• Rapidpages^630† - An AI-enabled IDE targeted at quickly hacking together web UIs.

• Evervault⁴³⁶ - Privacy proxy for OpenAI, integrate securely without compromising PII.

 From the network 

• Conviction Embed²⁸⁷ - An accelerator for AI-native startups with a $150k grant and $400k+ in credits.

• Can AI and ML predict depression?²⁰³

 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• Why did Meta open-source Llama 2?⁶³⁷

• The new open-source AI full-stack⁵⁸⁵ platform challenging OpenAI and supporting LLaMA 2.

• Google Cloud expands availability²⁰⁰ of enterprise-ready generative AI.

• Backdrop AI builder week¹⁴³ - Demo your AI project and connect with other AI builders.

• Jailbreaking a Google Nest Mini²⁹⁹ so that you can run your own LLMs, agents, and voice models.

• How does China’s approach to AI regulation¹⁹⁴ differ from the US and EU?

• The open-source learning curve³⁴⁸ for AI researchers.

• Teaching programming⁴⁹⁷ in the age of ChatGPT - from OReilly.

• OpenAI is doubling the message limit for GPT-4. ²²⁵It’s now 50 messages every 3 hours.

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• CoPrompt^155† allows teams to use ChatGPT together. Use a Multiplayer ChatGPT jamming session to iterate prompts and learn from each other!

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