Agents! All Aboard the Hype Express

AI pioneers ! hold on to your hats, because I'm revamping this newsletter with a fresh format featuring deep dives every week. Why, you ask? Well, I've realized that it's easier to spot trends and dish out insights when my posts follow a theme, rather than just covering a hodgepodge of AI marketing spotlights. So, without further ado, let's embark on this week's thrilling adventure! 🤖

 The hype train has left the station – but are you on board? I hope not, because there's a chance you might end up in nowhereland! Luckily, you're already on the right track by reading this newsletter. Our topic du jour, de la semaine, and de l'année is none other than AI agents.

As we chug along toward a future where autonomous agents are as common as layoffs, there'll be two major opportunities: creating autonomous agents for others to hire, or hiring them ourselves to amp up productivity in our personal or business lives. Early movers in developing or using autonomous agents will have a significant advantage over competitors who are stuck in the Stone Age – or the "manual labor" age, as I like to call it. One thing we all seem to run out of is time, and any chance to replace human effort, whether through ingenious system design, hiring someone else, or programming a machine, both frees up our time and lets us scale our output by doing more in parallel. In fact, this can be considered a core definition of technology and civilization:

“Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them” — Alfred North Whitehead.

Now, Auto GPT, our hype train conductor, is clearly an early mover, but is it too generic to be useful, or is there more than meets the eye? (Cue dramatic music 🎶)

AutoGPT inherits all of ChatGPT's issues and amplifies them like a game of "telephone." The main problem with using GPTs is misalignment, which snowballs with each prompt. If you start with a 95% chance of alignment and each prompt has a 5% chance of going rogue, by the 10th prompt, you're less than 60% likely to be aligned. It takes a whole bunch of prompts to get anything useful, making it as effective as a chocolate teapot. I tried to use it to create a niche app, and despite my expert guidance and tweaking, it just didn't take off. After about 40 prompts with GPT-4, it hadn't written any code and was on the verge of looping prompts. And that was with my help!

Will it have some uses? Perhaps. But with Moore's Law in its twilight and ML model performance plateauing, and considering that GPT-4 has already devoured the best training data like a ravenous beast, I'm skeptical it'll be more than a curiosity for the foreseeable future.

But wait! Venture into the GitHub repo (aka, the treasure trove of source code), and you'll find that, just like ChatGPT, AutoGPT offers plugins:

💪AutoGPT can retrieve Twitter posts and related content through the v1.1 API using Tweepy.

💪It can connect your MetaTrader Account to Auto-GPT.

💪 And for us marketing maestros, it connects to your Google Analytics Account.

No more fussing with the labyrinthine user interface of GA4. Just ask your friendly neighborhood AI agent about your audience and explore the output…

 To sum it up: AI agents will truly shine when they're specialized. 

The brilliant minds behind AutoGPT have clearly grasped the value of customization, allowing anyone to build plugins on top of their platform. Now, let's flip the script for a moment. If you're already using ChatGPT, why bother with AutoGPT? Surely there must be a way to combine the power of AutoGPT plugins with ChatGPT. Well, buckle up, because the future is now: Introducing the Mother of All Plugins: The ChatGPT Plugin for OpenAI API! 🤖 by @ruvnet (Link): It's like giving ChatGPT a double espresso shot! ☕️💥

This groundbreaking plugin effortlessly integrates ChatGPT with the OpenAI API, allowing you to harness the prowess of OpenAI's language models in creative and interactive ways, all within ChatGPT.

It's bananas! 🍌 I can now fully and automatically train custom OpenAI models using Stephen Wolfram's Wolfram plugin with a single prompt. Just by asking politely, like a well-mannered robot!

 Other jaw-dropping examples include:

-Chain of Thought Marketing: Generate a marketing slogan for a new brand, create a marketing campaign based on the slogan, and then produce a series of promotional events – all using the OpenAI API.

-Creative Recipe and Poem: Fine-tune a language model to generate imaginative recipes, create a dish with specific dietary restrictions, and then whip up a poem about the dish.

-Math Equation Visualization: Generate a visual representation of a mathematical equation using the Wolfram Alpha plugin, then fine-tune a language model to describe mathematical visuals and generate a description of the visual representation.

Now, let's talk ChatGPT plugins. After testing a gazillion plugins and sharing my experiences on LinkedIn, I sensed a lot of FOMO – if not anger – about the fact that I had access to these nifty tools while others didn't.

So, first things first: if you want to try ChatGPT plugins, make sure to apply here: (Link)

Secondly, I will start sharing my findings on LinkedIn. Setting up a plugin isn't exactly a walk in the park, as it involves cloning the repo hosting the plugin into a server and running the server for ChatGPT to access the plugin. So, to spare you the headache, I'll be doing the legwork and sharing videos of the plugins in action. Make sure to follow me on LinkedIn if you haven't already!

One of the most mind-blowing experiences I've had so far was using the YouTube Persona Generator plugin. It analyzed a specific YouTube video's audience, providing detailed insights into their interests, demographics, and behavior. But wait, there's more! It even recommended additional videos that align with the audience's interests, complete with thumbnails and direct access to YouTube! It's like OpenAI is cooking up some secret sauce! 🍝

On that note, let's dive into this week's edition, starting with the curation of 9 fascinating tools that are sure to tickle your AI fancy!

 🛠️ TOOLS 🛠️ 

Behold these Top 9 AI wonders of the week that'll make you go "Ooh!" and "Aah!":

📌 WonderCraft AI: Transform blog posts, articles, or any written content into captivating, studio-quality podcasts in a snap! Just pick a host and music, and watch the magic unfold (Link)

📌 TeamSmart AI: Gather your very own AI assistant dream team (Link)

📌 Chat with PDF: This nifty tool remembers conversations with your PDFs. Building it is a breeze once you learn the secret sauce called langchain (Link)

📌 Opus: Opus Clip is a generative AI video tool that repurposes lengthy videos into bite-sized clips with a single click. Bid farewell to 20-hour editing sessions or shelling out $500 for an editor. Create top-notch short clips for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels in a jiffy! (Link)

📌 AI Front Desk: This virtual receptionist software for small businesses automates scheduling and Q&A over the phone. Customers can text, call, and ask complex questions, all while it talks just like a human receptionist (Link)

📌 MiniGPT-4: Upload your images and strike up a conversation with them! (Link)

📌 Whisper JAX: Whisper JAX is an optimized implementation of OpenAI's Whisper model. It's over 70x faster, making it the speediest Whisper API available (Link)

📌 Savvy Trader: An AI-Powered Finance and Investing assistant that provides personalized insights and answers to all your investment questions (Link)

So, there you have it - nine AI-powered treats to make your life easier, more efficient, and dare we say, a little more entertaining! 🎉

 🔦 SPOTLIGHT 🔦 

👉 OpenAI has quietly integrated itself into the lives of over a billion users, or one-eighth of the world's population, without much notice.

👉 OpenAI is likely to struggle in meeting the April 30th deadline set by Italy's data protection body. The company could face substantial fines, be forced to delete data, and even face a ban again.

👉 EU lawmakers have urged US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to hold a summit to discuss ways to regulate ChatGPT and advanced AI development. This could lead to lengthy legal battles ahead.

👉 Meanwhile, OpenAI employees (excluding the legal department) are celebrating their significant paydays, as the company is valued at around $27 billion.

👉 Big news! Together is retraining the base LLaMA model from scratch to license it as open-source (Link)

👉 The real risk with AI: A single fake ChatGPT app compromised 4 million accounts. Could ChatGPT's popularity be hiding the largest scams of our time? (Link)

👉 All of Wikipedia in embeddings! Weaviate hosts a subset of this embedding archive publicly, allowing you to query it directly without needing to download or process the dataset. The archive includes 10 million vectors from various languages (Link)

👉 Grimes (@Grimezsz) tweeted on Mon, Apr 24, 2023: She's offering to split 50% royalties on any successful AI-generated song that uses her voice, just like any artist she collaborates with. Grimes invites creators to use her voice without penalty, as she has no label or legal bindings (Link)

 🤖 AGENTS 🤖 

👉 A complete beginners' guide to autonomous agents (Link)

👉 Language Models on Steroids with Langchain and Langflow (Link)

👉 Langchain cheat sheet (Link)

👉 An alternative to Langchain (Link)

👉 Langchain vs Haystack (Link)

👉 A free alternative to AutoGPT - NodeGPT (Link)

👉 Is anyone working on games and Agents? (Link)

👉 Do we need bots to understand bots? (Link)

👉 Join our AI agents group on LinkedIn for daily deep dives on these subjects (Link) 

 🤖 AMAZING A.I 🤖 

👉 MiniGPT-4 Vision-Language Tasks: An Open-Source AI Model That Performs Complex Vision-Language Tasks Like GPT-4 (Link)

👉 Want to find similar startups? ⛑ ChatGPT to the rescue (Link)

👉 Plant GPT: The company is building an AI model trained on data like the electrical signals between roots and leaves and the high-frequency sounds plants make (inaudible to humans). If successful, it will help food producers better allocate resources like fertilizers or greenhouse lighting (Link)

👉 Meet Make-it-3D: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Framework for High-Fidelity 3D Object Generation from a Single Image (Link)

👉 NVIDIA Text 2 Video (Link)

 🗣️ DISCUSS 🗣️ 

👉 A very Bad case of midjourney usage (Link)

👉 Which AI service have you used to successfully clone your voice, to the standard that you can use it in videos with text-to-audio (Link)

👉 I'm starting a YouTube channel and would like to choose the best AI Text-To-Video service, please help me choose between the following if you've had experience. I'll be cloning my voice with AI and will match / sync the voiceover to completed edited video file (Link)

👉 Should you block ChatGPT on your website (Link)

 🎓 LEARN 🎓 

👉 How to build an open source website that allows you to upload a custom knowledge base and ask ChatGPT questions about your specific files (Link)

👉 Run ChatGPT-Style Questions Over Your Own Files Using the OpenAI API and LangChain! (Link)

👉 How to run your LLM Locally (Link)

👉 How to use your own AI models on the web (Link)

👉 How to make consistent characters for an AI-assisted comic book in Midjourney (Link)

👉 How can I train my custom dataset on top of Vicuna? (Link)

👉 How to compare all LLM (Link)

👉 How does StableLM perform vs Vicuna (Link)

 🛠️ BUILD 🛠️ 

🔨 LlamaAcademy: Teaching Llamas How to Code (Link)

🔨 Creating an AI Agent with Vicuna 7B and Langchain: fetching a random Chuck Norris joke (Link)

 🎉 WRAPPING UP 🎉 

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