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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Plug-Ins

For the what feels like the 1000th time this year, OpenAI broke the internet.

CEO Sam Altman posted a video showing plug-ins including Expedia, Wolfram Alpha, Instacart, and more. “openai is offering a web browsing plugin and a code execution plugin, and open-sourcing the code for a retrieval plugin,” Altman followed up in a tweet.

While currently on a waitlist, the internet is going absolutely bonkers — including Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Gates dropped an article titled The Age of AI has Begun stating he’s only seen “two demonstrations of technology that struck me as revolutionary.”

1. The graphical user interface that would become Windows

2. GPT acing an AP Bio test

“Eventually your main way of controlling a computer will no longer be pointing and clicking or tapping on menus and dialogue boxes,” writes Gates. “Instead, you’ll be able to write a request in plain English. (And not just English—AIs will understand languages from around the world.)”

AI and Health

Gates, now a prominent philanthropist, was most excited about AI’s application in philanthropy, specifically in education and health.

“For one thing, they’ll help health-care workers make the most of their time by taking care of certain tasks for them—things like filing insurance claims, dealing with paperwork, and drafting notes from a doctor’s visit. I expect that there will be a lot of innovation in this area,” wrote Gates.

Gates believes that AI will be helpful in diagnosing diseases, dramatically accelerate the rate of medical breakthroughs, and will lead to an overall improvement in quality-of-life through increasing efficiency.

AI and Education

I’ll let Gates do the explaining here. As a kid who hated school and dropped out of college, his ideas really excites me.

Gates sees AI being used to do everything from assess a student’s understanding of a subject and giving advice on career planning.

Hm maybe it’s time to go back to college.

Nah startups are more fun.

3D PRINTING

Have Your Cake And Print It Too

I like cake. Unless you're a psycho, chances are you do too.

Obviously, homemade cakes are better than store-bought cakes. But, the problem with this is that baking a cake is a major pain in the behind. We’re all too busy doom-scrolling Twitter to put our baking aprons on.

Evidently, I am not the only person harboring these concerns. Researchers at Columbia also want delicious sweets without doing the work, and thus, are now trying to 3D-print cakes.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Cake

So, these researchers threw cartridges of paste and powder into a 3D printer with the goal of popping out a cheesecake. Good choice; cheesecake is absolutely gas.

Unfortunately, the first attempt looked like something you’d send back at a restaurant.

But these researchers were not easily deterred. They tried 5 different ingredient iterations until they finally produced something that looks semi-edible.

The Future Of Food

Although they haven’t quite mastered cheesecakes yet, these researchers believe that widescale 3D-printed food is the future.

The ultimate vision is to mix 3D printers with laser cookers for a one-stop-shop kitchen appliance. Basically, a digital personal chef.

Personally, if it saves me time in the kitchen, I’m all for it.

QUICK HITS

Seed Round

Stat: $11,000: How much the average price of a used Tesla Model 3 is down since 2022’s peak. It might be time for me to cop an Elonmobile.

Story we're watching: Welcome to the AI frenzy, Mozilla. Yep, the developers behind the Firefox browser are now AI entrepreneurs, as they’ve launched Mozilla.ai, a startup with the goal of building a “trustworthy” AI. Basically, what Mozilla is doing is attempting to return to the original roots of OpenAI and create AI models that are open-source, and they’ve secured a $30M seed investment from Mozilla (naturally) to do it. Let’s see where they go from here.

Rabbit hole: Robots Have Been About To Take All The Jobs For 100 Years (Pessimists Archive)

WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON

• ChatGPT can now surf the web.

• GitHub Copilot X is here. Watch out world, I’m about to be a coder.

• TikTok CEO Shou Chew is testifying before Congress as I type. Check here for a play-by-play replay.

• There’s a new precision-based RNA treatment system called DART VADAR. That is so freaking cool.

GUESSTIMATE

Ethereum layer-2 rollup Arbitrum has finally airdropped their token. How many ARB tokens were claimed in the first hour after release?

FUNDRAISING FRIDAY

LAYOFFS TRACKER

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Notable layoffs this week:

Glassdoor: 140 people (15%)

Just Eat: 1,700 people

Indeed: 2,200 people

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