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This Week in AI — AI’s Grip on Tech Set
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This Week in AI — AI’s Grip on Tech Set

July 25, 2023 | By: Dave Isaac

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AI’s Grip on Tech Set

AI’s Grip on Tech Set for Test With Earnings Reports

For months we’ve heard about AI’s potential — now it’s time to see if the business effect is as remarkable as some of the leading AI platforms. Stocks for Microsoft and Alphabet have both increased significantly in recent months and the companies are set to release earnings reports after the closing bell today. Snap will also report earnings this evening and Meta is set to follow tomorrow.

Meta Releases Llama 2

Meta Releases Llama 2, a More ‘Helpful’ Set of Text-Generating Models

Can Meta offer the next AI breakthrough? Its model, Llama, isn’t a standalone tool like ChatGPT, Bard, or Claude — instead, it’s used behind the scenes to power enterprise applications. Llama 1 was only available by request, and this version is now open for research and commercial use. 

Elsewhere …

Tips and Tricks

💡 Unpacking ChatGPT’s Custom Instructions

What’s new: OpenAI released a new feature, custom instructions, to Plus members on Thursday. In a blog post, the company said the feature was inspired by customer feedback “about the friction of starting each ChatGPT conversation afresh.” Instead of repeating the same information in every chat, like your audience or writing style, you can now include it once as a custom instruction and the platform will remember it for each ensuing conversation.

Why it matters: If you work in a specific sector or want to keep a consistent voice, this could be a timesaver. Instead of explaining as part of each prompt, “Imagine you’re the CMO of a real estate firm,” or “Your audience is C-suite executives of cybersecurity companies,” you can make that piece of knowledge a starting point for your OpenAI profile.

Try this: To turn custom instructions on, click on your name in the lower-left corner → Settings → Beta features → opt into custom instructions. Once the feature is active, you can change the instructions by clicking on your name → Custom instructions. You can set information about yourself — job, location, goals — and how you want ChatGPT to respond to prompts — length, tone, format. This could lead to ChatGPT generating more complete outputs faster by asking it to incorporate a style guide or generate content as charts.

📚 A Way to Work With Longer Content

What’s new: Claude is an AI platform that’s a lot like ChatGPT. It’s not inherently connected to the internet and generates text outputs based on text inputs. Unlike ChatGPT, which only accepts file uploads via Code Interpreter, Claude accepts file uploads with every prompt.

Why it matters: All these platforms have different strengths, and Claude’s is the ability to digest a lot of information. Claude’s limit is 100,000 tokens, or roughly 75,000 words, more than three times higher than ChatGPT.  

Try this: Let’s say you wanted to take an interview transcript from Otter and have AI use it to build an outline for a blog post or article. With ChatGPT, you’d have to do this in pieces, likely using multiple chat sequences. Claude can quickly read an hour-long chat transcript and produce an outline in a single prompt. We’ve also found Claude’s outlines tend to be higher quality than ChatGPT’s.