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MC.10: The AI Frontier Expands - OpenAI's Bold Strides and AGI's Approaching Horizon
This week, dive into OpenAI's latest groundbreaking updates, the accelerated pace towards AGI, and the evolving landscape of AI-driven technology.
Samuel ROY
November 10, 2023
modern chaos issue 10
Modern chaos is a newsletter exploring tech and AI through the journey of a dev agency shifting from services to product design. We share our notes, analysis and experiments.
Hello there,
OpenAI has unleashed a wave of new features! Check out my first link to read their announcement—it's massive. Also, AGI is coming sooner rather than later.
Cheers
In this issue:
🔗 OpenAI: New Models, Lower Prices, New Features
🤔 Why We Will Have AGI by 2028
🔐 AI Hacking Agents Will Outperform Humans
🤖 Rogue Superintelligence and Merging with Machines
💻 Dot: A New Kind of Operating System
🏆 Phind Model Beats GPT-4 at Coding
🗣️ OSpeak: CLI Tool for Speaking Text through OpenAI Text-to-Speech
🚀 ZeroStep: Supercharge Your Playwright Tests with AI
Tech updates & tools
OpenAI: New Models, Lower Prices, New Features
GPT-4 Turbo now offers a 128K context and lower prices. Additionally, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more have been introduced. One thing is now certain: they know how to deliver. READ IT
Why We Will Have AGI by 2028
I appreciate Daniel Miessler's definition of AGI: an average knowledge co-worker in the US. Once you scope it out, it's easy to envision how a system of AI agents could be considered AGI. READ IT
AI Hacking Agents Will Outperform Humans
This isn't directly about AGI, but to me, what Joseph describes feels akin to it. Hackers and Pentesters are knowledge workers, and there are strong incentives to build AI agents in this industry. READ IT
Rogue Superintelligence and Merging with Machines
A conversation between OpenAI's Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever and the MIT Technology Review discusses his concerns about the future of AI and why these have shifted the focus of his life's work. READ IT
Dot: A New Kind Of Operating System
Explore this concept of an AI-operated system, akin to a personal AI living by your side. The story is intriguing; I'm curious to see what they will actually deliver. PREVIEW | ABOUT
Phind Model Beats GPT-4 at Coding, with GPT-3.5-like Speed and 16k Context
Phind's new AI model claims to outperform OpenAI’s GPT-4 in coding, and it's 5x faster. This is impressive, despite some inconsistencies noted by the community. READ IT | DEMO
OSpeak: CLI Tool for Speaking Text through OpenAI Text-to-Speech
Simon Willison, the author of llm, has created a handy CLI utility that simplifies experimenting with the new OpenAI text-to-speech endpoint. GITHUB
ZeroStep: Supercharge Your Playwright tests with AI
ather than using CSS selectors or XPath locators, ZeroStep's AI assistant determines actions at runtime based on your plain-text instructions. This is the first production-ready app I've seen using non-deterministic LLMs to replace parts of your code! ZEROSTEP
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