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🤖 Why Amazon is giving AI startups $300k for free

PLUS: No more cheating on homework using AI

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Jameson Zaballos
April 05, 2023

Bit of a quiet day in AI yesterday.

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🤓 Sorry, no more homework written by ChatGPT

Cheating in school with AI is over.

Ask Turnitin, a popular online service used to turn in homework.

They dropped an absolute bomb with their latest feature.

An AI-powered plagiarism finder. To find homework that AI wrote.

Worst part? It works.

In fact, we are able to detect the presence of AI writing with 98% confidence and a less than one percent false-positive rate in our controlled lab environment.

Imagine being in that one percent. I’d be livid.

They haven’t explained how this works, for good reason. But RIP to ChatGPT essays saving the day.

Now, back to actually studying.

💰 Amazon will fund your generative AI startup

Have a generative AI startup? Missed out on Y Combinator? Amazon wants to take you in to their 10-week startup accelerator.

To the tune of $300k in free AWS credits.

Dubbed “AWS Startup Loft Accelerator”, the program seems promising.

Spend ten weeks developing your generative AI startup. Receive mentorship and tech demos from AWS and AI industry executives. Network with your peers. At the end, you’ll present for a demo day stuffed with investors and press.

It’s AWS’ little Y Combinator.

Plus, yeah, Amazon will gain a sticky customer.

Want to apply? Here’s your criteria.

Ideally, you’ll have an MVP already developed and your eyes set on Seed-stage funding, with plans to raise in the next 18 months. We welcome machine learning startups with technical leads who are leveraging cloud technologies, or who plan to.

So, if that sounds like you, have at it!

👀 Bill Gates has an opinion on the AI letter

Bill Gates is coming for the AI haters.

See if you can guess what Bill Gates thinks about the idea of pausing AI development.

Did you guess “not a fan?” Come on down and collect your prize.

You’ll recall over 1,000 AI industry executives and scientists signed an open letter to pause AI development for 6 months.

His response?

“I don’t think asking one particular group to pause solves the challenges”.

Unsurprising. Gates is bullish on AI for two reasons.

1. He just published a blog post arguing AI should aid in solving the world’s inequities.

2. He probably still owns a ton of Microsoft stock.

“I don’t really understand who they’re saying could stop, and would every country in the world agree to stop, and why to stop,” he said. “But there are a lot of different opinions in this area.”

Bill Gates, interview with Reuters

Let’s be honest; We all knew the letter was going nowhere.

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Well, ChatGPT, ya got me there.

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