🚀 The Start of Something Great 🚀

Good afternoon,
Welcome to the first edition of the weekly 5-minute-AI-Newsletter!

We’re super excited to build this community and share all the things happening in the warp speed growing world of AI. Let’s jump right in the nitty gritty of last weeks developments.

Table of contents

• How to use ChatGPT the right way 🤖

• New Rules for AI 👨🏻‍🏫

• Never forget important information again during meetings 📝

“My ChatGPT output is bad”

Something we hear often, ChatGPT not giving the right output. But why is that? Why are some people super successful with their ChatGPT use cases and you’re still not?

It is the way you prompt… Your output is only as good as your input. But how do you give the right prompts to ChatGPT? First of all there is not one-fits-all prompt that will magically fix everything, but there is a certain prompt structure that will make your output exponentially better. So here we go, let’s use a copywriting example:

1. Give ChatGPT a rol → ‘You’re Spartacus a professional copy writer’

2. Define task → ‘Your task is to write copy for a online media company.’

3. Give control to ChatGPT → ‘Now ask me all the questions you need to be successful in this task.’

4. Define output → ‘Write in a professional yet informal way and always begin with a attention grabbing headline. Use a maximum of X words per alinea and use simple language.’

5. Give examples → ‘Now give me 3-5 examples.’

6. Finetune → ‘Improve X and Y in example 3’.

Updates

👨🏻‍🦳 US president Joe Biden signs AI executive order 📃🇺🇸

The Biden administration has released an executive order that sets safety and security requirements for the use of artificial intelligence technology. The order includes standards for red-team testing, affixing labels on AI-generated content, and developing strong new standards for biological synthesis screening.

The order could have a wide impact on how AI-focused companies, and startups in particular, develop and release new iterations of their products. The order also aims to shape AI's potential to transform education by creating resources to support educators deploying AI-enabled educational tools. Additionally, the order aims to expand the ability of highly skilled immigrants and nonimmigrants with expertise in critical areas to study, stay, and work in the United States by modernizing and streamlining visa criteria, interviews, and reviews.

📱 Apple is doubling down on AI 🍏 

During an earnings call covering the fourth fiscal quarter of 2023, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that Apple is investing heavily in AI and that there will be product advancements involving generative AI. Cook emphasized that AI and machine learning are fundamental technologies integral to every product Apple ships, and that features such as Personal Voice and Live Voicemail on iOS 17, and life-saving features like Fall Detection, Crash Detection, and ECG on the watch, would not be possible without AI.

Cook also suggested that Apple is planning to be responsible when it delves into generative AI technology, and that features will roll out over time. Reports suggest that Apple is spending billions on generative AI research and product development.

🏢 Are the big AI companies like Meta, OpenAi and Google hiding something? 👀 

Meta released its large language model Llama 2 relatively openly and for free, but some still see the company’s openness with an asterisk. While Meta’s license makes Llama 2 free for many, it’s still a limited license that doesn’t meet all the requirements of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Meta vice president for AI research Joelle Pineau, who heads the company’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) center, is aware of the limits of Meta’s openness. But, she argues that it’s a necessary balance between the benefits of information-sharing and the potential costs to Meta’s business.

Meta’s approach to openness feels novel in the world of big AI companies. OpenAI began as a more open-sourced, open-research company. But OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever told The Verge it was a mistake to share their research, citing competitive and safety concerns. While Google occasionally shares papers from its scientists, it has also been tight-lipped around developing some of its large language models. The industry’s open source players tend to be smaller developers like Stability AI and EleutherAI — which have found some success in the commercial space.

Tool of the week - Otter (not sponsored)

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Rounding it up

We hope you enjoyed this edition of the Weekly 5 min AI Newsletter and hope to see you again next week!