Hi folks,
Hope everyone is having a great Friday. Here are some of the most notable developments in the AI world this week
Top AI firms agree to comply with guidelines for responsible AI development
Has ChatGPT performance taken a nosedive
Is ChatGPT plugins the next App store? Should businesses invest in building their own ChatGPT plugins?
AI Firms Agree to Voluntary Guidelines
Last week, major U.S. tech companies pledged to abide by voluntary guidelines in developer AI technologies
Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and Ope
nAI made their commitment to new standards for safety, security and trust at a meeting with President Biden. According to Andrew Ng, founder of Google Brain and Coursera, many of the commitments in safety, security and trust are vague. Companies and the White House can declare success without doing much that they don’t already do
Except for labelling AI generated content
Why this matters
OpenAI quietly shutdown its AI detection tool after 6 months citing inaccuracy.
It may prove impossible to detect if content has been generated with AI after the fact. So labeling or watermarking content when it’s generated may be the only reliable option
But only time will tell how companies will implement this guardrail and if it can be circumvented
ChatGPT performance took a nosedive?
If you think ChatGPT has changed for the worse, you’re not alone
Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley found that the performance of GPT-4 & GPT-3.5 have changed from March 2023 to June 2023. GPT-4 only successfully identify prime number 2.4% of the time in June compared to 97.6% in March. Meanwhile GPT-3 has improved significantly in the same task
Why this matters
Applications relying on closed large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT, Bard or Claude 2 will need to monitor LLM response quality or risk deteriorating user experience
3 Reasons businesses should build ChatGPT plugins
Every business should consider creating a ChatGPT plugin
ChatGPT currently have 100 million monthly active users. Many of them are using ChatGPT & its plugins instead of Google search. Business should create their own ChatGPT plugins to
Find new customers
Generate more revenue
Stay ahead of the competition in the post AI world
We give 3 additional reasons why now is a good time to create a ChatGPT plugin for your own business on our blog. Click here to read it
The easiest way to find ChatGPT plugins to save your hours of work
We recently shipped search for AI Growth Pad ChatGPT plugin directory.
But that’s not all
You can also view detailed guide about each plugin including example prompts. Here are the guides for some of my favorite ChatGPT plugins
About Trung Vu
Trung Vu, a former software engineer, founded Hoss in 2019 to enhance developer experiences, swiftly attracting Silicon Valley backers and a $1.6 million seed round. In 2021, his venture was acquired by Niantic Labs, of Pokemon Go fame, to bolster their Lightship platform.
Post-acquisition, Trung leads engineering teams at Niantic and invests in promising AI startups. An AI enthusiast even before ChatGPT's rise, he equates its potential to electricity. Through AI Growth Pad, his education platform, Trung teaches entrepreneurs to leverage AI for growth, embodying his commitment to ethical, transformative technology.
