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🤖 Google kinda catches up, sorta releases ChatGPT competitor
PLUS: Adobe's generative AI
All of today’s AI news happened in like a two hour period.
The industry is moving a million miles a second.
Except for Apple.
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😬 Adobe wants to have its AI-generated cake and eat it too

Adobe is taking a different approach to generative AI.
They’ve announced new creator tools that use generative AI. For text to image generation. Surprise, surprise.
The tool pulls on Adobe’s vast stock photo library, as well as images from the public domain. It’s a beta feature in creative cloud products.
Join the club, right?
The difference here is Adobe is addressing the concerns of creators.
For one, Adobe is “exploring the possibility of opting out” of being part of the training data. How noncommittal.
That creator can also opt-in. Down the line, they might receive extra payments when a prompt uses their photo. Adobe doesn’t have any details on this.
This announcement SCREAMS “I know what you’re thinking, creators, but hear us out.”
Adobe wants in on AI, but makes its livelihood off artists creating using their tools. Artists who are not too happy with AI-generated imagery.
This will surely cause no controversy.
👀 OpenAI knows if AI will affect your job

Source; OpenAI
Give it up for “Support activities for agriculture and forestry”. The job LEAST likely to gain or lose from AI.
Lumberjacks everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.
OpenAI released a paper detailing how jobs might improve or disappear thanks to AI’s gains. They define it as level of “exposure”.
We define exposure as a proxy for potential economic impact without distinguishing between labor-augmenting or labor-displacing effects.
Confused? Their scale is “will AI impact this job or not”. Without considering whether that impact is positive or negative.
Their list of “Occupations with no labeled exposed tasks” is a long list of manual labor roles. Stuff like cooks, athletes, roofers, cement pourers.
High exposure?
Mathematicians, accountants, blockchain engineers. Anything data-processing related especially.
Now, will this help or hurt your job?
That’s up to you, if we’re being honest.
Except for the lumberjacks.
🤯 Google releases ChatGPT competitor*

Source: Google
Google finally opened up access to Bard!
*Not yet, but you can join the waitlist now.
You'll move off it quick. To be honest, we're not sure why there's a waitlist. But the AI from the world's largest search engine is NOT search.
Google can’t stress that enough.
“You can use Bard to boost your productivity, accelerate your ideas and fuel your curiosity. You might ask Bard to give you tips to reach your goal of reading more books this year, explain quantum physics in simple terms or spark your creativity by outlining a blog post.”
It’s clear they want distance from any mistakes Bard makes.
They describe it as “an early experiment that lets you collaborate with generative AI”. And not, you know, a better way to search.
So, use it for creative expression, but don’t you dare try to get some facts out of it. If you do, they have a “Google it” button built in for every message.
Compared to ChatGPT, there are some significant guardrails. Let’s see if it’s anywhere close to as useful.
😎 AI tools, tips, links
AI is changing lives!
Everyone’s laughing at all the ChatGPT threads, but I (a man who can’t code), just built and shipped a functioning and IMO useful Chrome Extension in ~45 minutes using just that and @Replit - it was the weirdest feeling ever.
— Charlie Ward 🍜 (ramenclub.so) (@charlierward)
6:42 PM • Mar 20, 2023
Some more businesses you can build.
20 new businesses that can be built on GPT-4, written by GPT-4:
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI)
6:11 PM • Mar 21, 2023
Lol. Lmao.
Google Bard sides with the Justice Department in the Google antitrust case
“I hope that the court will find in favor of the Justice Department and order Google to take steps to break up its monopoly”
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane)
4:33 PM • Mar 21, 2023
🤫
If you want to use GPT-4 but don't want to pay for ChatGPT Pro, there's another way.
Put the periods into this URL :
assistant(dot)bloat(dot)appPut in the API key from your OpenAI account.
You only pay for your usage, which for most will be way less than $20/month.
— Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer (@thatroblennon)
9:51 AM • Mar 21, 2023
It tried.
Logic failure.
— 𝙶𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚘𝚜 𝙺𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 (@gbkaras)
10:10 AM • Mar 20, 2023
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