Good mornin’ friends. If you’re wondering where to get some SVB merch this fine morning, it’s on eBay. Go treat yourself to that SVB cardboard box you’ve always wanted.
For those of you that snagged the Starbucks NFTs we covered last week, congrats on that $600 flip. LFG homies, more alpha to come.
Alright, now let's get to the good stuff.
In the oven this week:
- 🤖 GPT-4 is here
- 🍪 Cookie crumbs: 5 bite-sized headlines
- 🗳️ Poll of the week: is ChatGPT overhyped?
- 🍫 Chocolate chips: our 3 favorite finds of the week
- 😂 Snickerdoodles: meme-gens unite
FRESHLY BAKED
GPT-4 IS HERE
The Coachella for nerds just happened this week.
OpenAI hosted a developer demo for GPT-4, the newest version of their deep learning model.
And their milkshake brought all the nerds to the yard.
Were we one of said nerds?
Yes. Let’s not talk about it.
Here were the best use cases we saw:
A visual assistant for the blind that can analyze and describe the world through your camera:
We are thrilled to present Virtual Volunteer™, a digital visual assistant powered by @OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model. Virtual Volunteer will answer any question about an image and provide instantaneous visual assistance in real-time within the app. #Accessibility#Inclusion#CSUN
— Be My Eyes (@BeMyEyes)
Mar 14, 2023
A language tutor that can explain exactly why you suck at Spanish:
AI and education make a good duo.
Introducing Duolingo Max. A subscription tier above Super that gives you access to your own personal, AI-powered language tutor through Explain My Answer and Roleplay, two features developed with the latest @OpenAI technology.
details in 🧵
— Duolingo (@duolingo)
Mar 14, 2023
Drug discovery:
GPT-4 does drug discovery.
Give it a currently available drug and it can:
- Find compounds with similar properties
- Modify them to make sure they're not patented
- Purchase them from a supplier (even including sending an email with a purchase order) twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper)
Mar 14, 2023
Build a website from a hand drawn sketch:
gpt-4 can turn your napkin sketch into a web app, instantly.
we are deep into uncharted territory here.
— Siqi Chen (@blader)
Mar 14, 2023
Passing all the exams:
🤯🤯Well this is something else.
GPT-4 passes basically every exam. And doesn't just pass...
The Bar Exam: 90%
LSAT: 88%
GRE Quantitative: 80%, Verbal: 99%
Every AP, the SAT...— Ethan Mollick (@emollick)
Mar 14, 2023
Turn a paper you’ve written into a full blown slide deck:
Imagine if you could synthesize a doc you wrote into a presentation in seconds.
Just one of the many capabilities we've built in @magicaltome powered by GPT-4. Coming (very) soon.
— Henri Liriani (@hliriani)
Mar 14, 2023
Whether the accuracy has caught up is still TBD, but it’s still pretty damn impressive. They're also killing it in the enterprise adoption race by being first to market. This could prove a tough lead to beat unless Google can outcompete on price or product.
ChatGPT's retention looks pretty good too given how many users it has (>100M). A third of people still using it 10 weeks after they first discovered it:
Google who???
COOKIE CRUMBS
BITE SIZED TREATS
Big news: Uber, Lyft, and all the delivery companies won their case in court. They can keep classifying drivers as independent contractors (instead of employees, which would have basically put them out of business).
Meta’s back at the layoff game - it’s getting rid of another 10K employees and closing 5K open job recs. Apparently it’s also ending free laundry in the office. When Zuck says it’s the “year of efficiency,” ya better be quivering in fear.
Spotify gets a redesign, with discovery features that focus on individual content over full playlists. Now it’s part TikTok, part Youtube, part Instagram.
You know how money can’t buy you happiness? Well turns out, it can. This week, researchers found that happiness doesn’t plateau after $75K - it keeps rising as people make more money. TLDR: money ain’t everything, but we’d rather cry in a Ferrari than a Honda.
If you feel bad about not getting into Harvard, now you don’t have to. Apparently 43% of white students are legacy, athletes, or related to staff. Go home and report back to mom and dad.
POLL OF THE WEEK
IS CHATGPT OVERHYPED?
Lately it feels like we can't get away from AI. The internet has exploded with tweets about how life as we know it is forever changed. Kinda feels familiar.... *COUGH* crypto *COUGH*
Is ChatGPT overhyped?
Sound off 👇🏽 |
CHOCOLATE CHIPS
OUR FAVORITE FINDS
- 137 great life hacks. Our favorites:
- Send cold emails and assume that everyone is a friend
- Be suspicious if you haven’t felt awkward today
- There’s lots of alpha in low status
- If you want people you don’t like to like you, you won’t like yourself
- Andrew Huberman’s pod on how to actually build strength, muscle, and endurance. Turns out, soreness isn’t a good measure of workout quality, and there are different types of exercises we should be doing to get strong vs. increase muscle size. Catch us in the gym this week testing out the science.
- Greg Isenberg's thoughts on life, AI, and community.
SNICKERDOODLES
THURSDAY MEMES
You know how I know SVB will make it?
They appointed a bald CEO.
Never bet against a bald CEO
— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen)
Mar 15, 2023
me with $28 in my bank account, triple steeping my tea bag: "loro piana's quality has gone down"
— derek guy (@dieworkwear)
Mar 3, 2023
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That's all we got for ya this week, folks. See ya next Thursday!
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