1st issue: 🤯 what a busy week in AI!

🌯 Wrap for the week

A close look at all the main headlines in AI

LawyerGPT GPT-4 has got eyes and is way smarter

OpenAI has released its latest artificial intelligence model, GPT-4, which can understand images as well as text and performs way better on several other fronts 🤯 The followings are a couple of examples:

1. It can now see and understand images. Although such capability is limited to a single partner, Be My Eyes, at present, OpenAI has said that it will be available to other customers in the future. GPT-4 can caption images and interpret relatively complex images, such as identifying a Lightning Cable adapter from a picture of a plugged-in iPhone. Did I say that GPT-4 also understand the joke about it? Check the example below👇

2. GPT-4 can perform so much better on different tests. It performs at a “human level” on various professional and academic benchmarks, including a simulated bar exam where it achieved a score in the top 10% of test takers, surpassing GPT-3.5’s score which was in the bottom 10%. Beware, lawyers.

3. GPT-4 is so smart that can now hire a human to do reCAPTCHA. We need to rethink if that check means anything now.

Early adopters are flocking in droves to GPT-4. These include:

1. Morgan Stanley is using the model to retrieve information from company documents;

2. Duolingo has incorporated the model into a new language learning subscription tier;

3. Khan Academy is also using GPT-4 to build an automated tutor.

Wanna get your hands on the latest and the greatest? The model is available to OpenAI’s paying customers via ChatGPT Plus, and developers can sign up on a waitlist to access the API.

News credit:
OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art from TechCrunch

Midjourney v5 can do hands and much more

Midjourney has announced the release of version 5 of its commercial AI image-synthesis service, which can produce photorealistic images at a quality level that some AI art fans are calling creepy and "too perfect".

The improvement of the image covers many fronts. It offers improved skin textures and facial features, more realistic or cinematic lighting, better reflections, glares, and shadows, more expressive angles or overviews of a scene, and more accurate human hands with five fingers. Yes, finally more accurate hands. See some amazing examples below👇

It also offers a 2x increase in image resolution, responds with a "much wider stylistic range" than version 4, and generates less unwanted text. While the upgrade may take away some of the thrills of repeatedly generating AI imagery to find a suitable result, it offers higher winning chances than version 4.

If you have not been closely following the Midjourney improvement journey, the following is a good example of how it has progressed 👇

News credit:
AI-imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands from arstechnica

Other top AI headlines for the week

Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model

Imagine having your own chatGPT with just a hundred bucks. Well, it is here now and give it a go if having your own GPT is your thing.

Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot—A whole new way to work

It is interesting to see how fast Microsoft has incorporated AI into their suite of products. Given their stronger bond with OpenAI, I am sure more interesting concepts utilising AI are on the horizon.

P.S. if you haven’t, check their launch event video here. There is just so much drudgery in work that needs to be removed.

A new era for AI and Google Workspace

Similar to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Google introduced the vision to incorporate AI better into their suite of products. Even though this is launched before Microsoft 365 Copliot, I just noticed this later this week. Once again, it just proves again how busy this week has been in AI.

Introducing Claude

Claude comes from Anthropic, which is created by former employees from OpenAI. Anthropic put safety at its core, hence Claude is much less likely to produce harmful outputs, easier to converse with, and more steerable, resulting in the desired output with less effort. If that is your concern working with GPT-4, you should check Claude out!

📖 Learning note

Concepts, techniques, and ideas I have learnt to become better at crafting prompts

"Genius in a room" mental model

Credit goes to JessicaShieh for suggesting this concept of thinking about crafting your prompt. In short, it means you would need to provide enough context to the AI models to ensure you can get the best response you would need. Here is the visual representation of this. I would encourage you to click through the thread to understand the concept in more detail.

Next time, when you are crafting the prompts, try to use this mental model to always keep in mind to remind the AI model of the context of your problem. Be specific about what is the context, break down the complex problem in steps, and give some examples of the desired results if possible. At the end of the day, that genius needs to understand the problem to give you better results.

🧰 Toolbox

Check out this week’s tools and resources that give you more superpowers with prompt crafting!

1. 📚 OpenAI Cookbook
   This is almost like the bible for prompt crafting with GPT. I am still new to this source and will share more learnings with you in this newsletter from this great resource.

2. 🔧 Prompt layer

   If you have a lot of prompts created for GPT so far and want to keep track of their performance and reuse them easily, Prompt layer is here to help.

3. 🔧 Miro AI

   This is not a direct tool to help with prompt crafting but it could make the brainstorming process so much quicker using AI. This is also a good example of how AI can be incorporated so seamlessly into an existing tool. Worth your time to check it out.

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