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Here’s how Google responded to Microsoft’s AI event
PLUS Stable Diffusion for video
Hi everyone.
I’ll let AI handle it today.

Look, all good comedians need to bomb a few times.
Google jumps into the AI chat arena
Google fired back at Microsoft today. They've got…
Bard.
That's their own version ChatGPT in Bing. You know, the one Microsoft announced.
This is entertaining as hell.
TBH… neither of these companies are winning naming awards.
Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, is exactly what you’d expect it to be. Search evolved, and Google is catching up by integrating Bard into its search engine.
Bard will serve you information that’s easy to understand, instead of ten web pages that might answer your question.

What ARE the best constellations? Source: Google
That’s the goal, anyways.
They’ve been developing this for a long time, but felt the pressure as Microsoft announced ChatGPT/Bing integration.
Thing is…
The event did not go as planned.
Shares plummeted off the speculation jump when an ad showed the bot giving a wrong answer.
Not to be a ~well, actually~ jerk, and I'm sure Bard will be impressive, but for the record: JWST did not take "the very first image of a planet outside our solar system".
the first image was instead done by Chauvin et al. (2004) with the VLT/NACO using adaptive optics.
— Grant Tremblay (@astrogrant)
10:49 PM • Feb 7, 2023
Google has the best search engine of today. Full stop. Will it have the best search engine of tomorrow?
Feed AI some info, it’ll learn about it…
AI’s tentacles reach further out into practical applications.
If you’ve used ChatGPT, you know it remembers context well. It can reference something you said way earlier in the conversation.
Give it enough context…say, a bunch of newsletters…and it can tell you anything about them.
Enter Lennybot.
Lennybot takes that principle and applies it to Lenny’s newsletter. It’s a popular business and startup newsletter, so you can ask it something like this:

It will not only give you the juicy relevant details, but a source from the knowledge base if you want to know more.
Big data promised this.
It’s finally come to fruition. Gather enough data about a subject, give it a smart AI to dig through it, and you’ve got Wikipedia on steroids.
Now, the real baller move is to provide API access to this ability, so anyone can.
Looking at you, Microsoft.
Stable Diffusion for video
Remember that company Getty Images is suing? The original creators split off into a new company focused on Stable Diffusion for video.

Replace those flowers with penguins, please. Source: Runway AI
What does that mean?
They want to allow anyone to generate videos based on a prompt. Like you can with tech like Dalle Mini or Midjourney.
The next logical AI step for creators is video.
Instead of building new content, though, they built this off existing videos. With creators in mind.
It’s on a waitlist at this point, but we’re excited to try it and see if it’s as easy to use as the image equivalents.
AI side project of the day
I built an AI news summarizer for TechCrunch articles!
1. Go to any TechCrunch article
2. Add "summary" after "techcrunch" in the URL
3. Get your summary100% free and open source: techcrunchsummary.com
— Hassan El Mghari (@nutlope)
3:58 PM • Feb 7, 2023
Bing AI tried…

Source: Reddit