🤖 Microsoft AI just killed another industry with this API

Good afternoon. Or evening…or morning.

It’s time for AI somewhere.

Lucky for us, Microsoft keeps bringing the juicy AI gossip.

But first, one for the creatives.

AI autocomplete for design work?

Remember yesterday when we covered that generative UI design tool?

Well, in case you’re a real designer, don’t worry. AI has you covered.

Genius is an “AI design companion in Figma.”

For those not in the know, Figma is one of the most popular tools designers use to generate user interfaces.

Think of it as…

Autocomplete for design work.

Or, as they put it, “AI UI”.

Here’s an example. Instead of searching the web for custom icons, or bjuilding your own, you can describe it to the tool.

We’ve been saying it since the beginning.

For builders, AI assistance will be as common as autocorrect.

Microsoft kills off another industry?

Microsoft killed an entire industry of companies.

They’re opening API access to ChatGPT.

I’m dubbing it Chatbot As A Service (CaaS) because why not.

Wouldn’t you love to have ChatGPT handle all your customer service? Now you can.

Want ChatGPT to answer questions about your documentation? Easy peasy.

There’s not much more to say.

This is huge.

AWS became a juggernaut because everyone built on it. Microsoft and OpenAI are betting the same with AI tools like ChatGPT.

If OpenAI’s models are as good as we’ve seen, companies like Intercom and Quik who specialize in customer support and chatbots will pivot.

Intercom already did, if you remember.

OpenAI gives teachers tools to fight AI essays

December 2022 was a magical time.

Everyone discovered how GOOD AI generated text is. There were so many fun experiments, everyone forgot one thing.

It was college finals season for millions of students.

ChatGPT was also excellent at generating long essays from short prompts.

We’ll never know the full extent of what happened. Suffice to say, many people used ChatGPT to write part or all their final papers.

And teachers couldn’t do anything about it.

Panic set in for the academic profession. This has wider implications for content, though.

Some services need to know whether a human wrote content. Google, for example, might rank human-written content higher.

OpenAI has the answer.

It built a tool for classifying text to determine whether it’s AI generated.

It’s still in its infancy, and definitely does not want to make tough calls.

It’s pretty clear who it’s targeted at. One of the “AI generated” use cases is a summary of Brave New World. You know…that book we all had to write essays on in high school.

One thing is clear.

Spring 2023 won’t be anything like Fall 2022 for most students.

😎 Cool AI project of the day

😭 Poor BingGPT…

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