🍪 Google enters the chat (GPT)

What’s going on, friends - happy Thursday. Or should I say happy National Pizza Day? 

That’s right fellas, tell your bosses it’s a holiday. It’s time to mosey on over to Pizza Hut!!

Alright, enough of the funny business, let’s dive in.

In the oven this week:

• 🤖 Google joins the battle of the bots

• 🍪 Cookie crumbs: 5 bite-sized headlines

• 🗳️ Poll of the week: recession??? 

• 💬 Tweet of the week: crypto corner

• 🍫 Chocolate chips: our 4 favorite finds of the week

• 😂 Snickerdoodles: Thursday memes

FRESHLY BAKED

GOOGLE JOINS THE BATTLE OF THE BOTS

Ding ding ding! A new player has entered the AI ring. 

And it’s none other than our reigning heavyweight champ, Google.

But first, let me rewind.

Earlier this week, Microsoft held an event to show off the new version of Bing with ChatGPT built into the homepage. 

Remember Bing? That ol’ search engine that never took off? 

It’s currently got a 9% market share in search but is looking to steal some more of the pie from Google.

AI-powered Bing can do pretty much what you’d expect: summarize search results, answer questions and follow ups about them, etc. 

But Microsoft also announced a new AI powered Edge, it’s web browser that competes with Google Chrome. 

You can open a right hand pane on any website you visit and use their version of ChatGPT within the context of the web page.

The new Edge can:

• Compare/contrast web pages (e.g. “compare Gap’s Q2 financial statements with Lululemon’s”) 

• Summarize content on webpages

• Compose cringey LinkedIn posts 

• Write and translate code from one language to another

We gotta admit, it’s pretty slick.

And just when we thought there couldn’t be more, Microsoft hit us with plans to release technology to help big companies launch their own versions of ChatGPT chatbots. 

Wanna know when performance reviews start? 

Don’t know where the company coffee bar is on campus? 

Need to know if the toilet paper in the all gender bathroom is 1 or 2 ply? 

Can’t figure out if the engineer next to you will ever put on his shoes in the office? 

Ask the company chat bot.

All we know is, it's gonna be a killer enterprise money maker. 

Seeing all the ooohs and ahhhs, Google decides it’s finally had enough. So what does it announce? 

Its own version of ChatGPT: Bard. 

But they were pretty mum on the details.

Bard is slated to come out "in the coming weeks" and will be integrated with search. Right now, it’s only available to "trusted testers."

Google has a lot more on the line, with a reputation for being the AI frontrunner. Let's just say, Bard’s gotta impress.

No pressure Google, we’ll be waiting...

COOKIE CRUMBS

BITE SIZED TREATS

What happened in tech this week:

POLL OF THE WEEK

POLL OF THE WEEK 💸

Some people rely on the experts to guide their money moves, but what about us? We listen to the thousands of smart folk reading this newsletter.  

Sound off - what do we think about the recession? 

FROM THE COOKIE JAR

TWEET OF THE WEEK

49% of the total bitcoin supply has remained in the same wallets for more than two years, according to data from Glassnode. 

Ok, people are still HODLing. So what? 

Wellll it’s kind of a crypto winter. And with investors hanging on, it indicates a whole lotta confidence in bitcoin’s future. 👀

CHOCOLATE CHIPS

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