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🤖 Well, it’s official: Meta pivots to AI

PLUS: More AI lawyers

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Jameson Zaballos
March 19, 2023

Take a deep breath.

We’ve got another long week of AI news ahead of us.

We’re ready. Are you?

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👨‍⚖️ More AI lawyers, says PwC

Your honor, I’ll object as soon as my software update finishes.

If you’re a law firm NOT using AI, you’re at a disadvantage.

Fact.

Remember last month when a law firm gave AI assistants to every lawyer? PwC does too. So they did the same thing.

With the same AI startup.

Harvey AI signed a 12-month contract with PwC to give AI to an army of 4,000 lawyers.

“This will enhance the ability of PwC’s network of more than 4,000 legal professionals to deliver human led and technology enabled legal solutions in a range of areas, including contract analysis, regulatory compliance, claims management, due diligence and broader legal advisory and legal consulting services.”

PwC Press Release

“All outputs will be overseen and reviewed by PwC professionals.” We don’t blame them. This isn’t the profession where false answers are passable.

We’re not surprised, but we’re seeing a pattern.

In the AI gold rush, incumbents are builders or buyers. We’ve noticed a lot of tech companies are builders. They have dedicated engineering teams who can integrate AI tech. Adding AI to Intercom, for example, is a breeze.

PwC are buyers. They might have dedicated engineering teams, but their core business is legal. It’s easier for them to outsource the specific AI that fits their needs.

If you’re building a startup, recognize this difference.

👀 Mark Zuckerburg ditches Metaverse for AI

Mark Zuckerburg's love-affair with the Metaverse is over.

He just wrote the obituary. Meta announced 10k more layoffs this week, many affecting their VR ambitions. But buried in that announcement was a clear message.

Metaverse is out, and AI is in.

From the post (which he always does on Facebook, for some reason):

“I believe that we are working on some of the most transformative technology our industry has ever seen. Our single largest investment is in advancing AI and building it into every one of our products. We have the infrastructure to do this at unprecedented scale and I think the experiences it enables will be amazing.”

Mark Zuckerburg

You can’t get more to-the-point than that.

Meta lost $13.7 BILLION on the Metaverse last year. It sees the hype in AI.

And this is hype that people will actually use. VR is cumbersome. It’s way cooler to use an AI to help you write your essay.

Question is, how long can ads keep them afloat while they pivot?

They aren’t stupid. They’ll make it happen.

🤓 Write better thanks to Grammarly’s AI

Source: gram marly

If you're a writer, you use Grammarly to help you write better.

They, like every other tech company, added some cool new AI features.

It has all the features you’d expect. Rewrite a paragraph for more clarity. Generate a response to an email at the tap of one button. Prompt for a rough draft.

Here’s how they say it’s better than Google.

You can switch between voices - using professional text when at work, and more casual words at home.

It’ll also suggest prompts for you to get your creative juices flowing.

At $30 a month, it had better be all they say it is.

😎 AI tools, links, tips

  1. No image to text…yet.

  1. Newest experiment: Give GPT-4 money and see what it can make.

  1. Twitter tests AI for detecting manipulation.

  1. Important reminder.

  1. Generate a connotative Chinese name using AI.

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