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This Week in AI — Google has Re-Entered the Chat
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This Week in AI — Google has Re-Entered the Chat

September 19, 2023 | By: Dave Isaac

Headlines You Should Know

 

Google Nears Release of Gemini AI to Challenge OpenAI

First came news Meta is plotting its move to compete with ChatGPT. Evidently, Google is even further along and has given a handful of companies early access to its AI software, Gemini. The Gemini hype has been building for some time — from claims that it’s “a serious threat to ChatGPT” to an analysis that it’s five times more powerful than GPT-4. While there’s no doubt ChatGPT has dominated generative AI, Gemini may be the new benchmark sooner rather than later. 

How GPT-4 Drives Efficiency, Speed, and Quality at Work

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick joined a team of social scientists in conducting a study about the future of work in the AI era. The study was based on a range of tasks from creative to analytical to content generation and showed that using AI can even make top performers better. Among the most interesting findings: AI helped consultants finish 12.2% more tasks on average, complete tasks 25.1% quicker, and achieve 40% higher quality than those who didn’t use AI. 

Elsewhere …

Tips and Tricks

🔗 Hey, Link Reader Is Back!

What’s happening: In 10 editions of this newsletter, this is the third time we’re using this space to talk about ChatGPT plugin Link Reader. It was a helpful alternative when ChatGPT disabled its “Browse with Bing” feature, then was removed from the plugin store in early August. Thankfully, it has returned.

Why it matters: Link Reader is the conduit connecting GPT-4 to the internet. It can search the web, read PDFs, decipher transcripts of YouTube videos, and even read Google Drive documents (as long as they’re made public, of course).

Try this: This particular plugin is a great Swiss Army knife. It helps with media monitoring by scanning news articles, blog posts, and other types of content for mentions of a company. It enhances competitive analysis by fetching content from competitors’ press releases, articles, or reports. It assists with outreach if you ask it to find all the stories written by a particular journalist in the last month or identify trends in coverage for specific publications. It can also help by summarizing or even analyzing the contents of a PDF, like identifying the most pertinent information from a lengthy report. Link Reader also claims to have multilingual support and the ability to translate. All this potential comes with the usual caveat: Make sure a human double-checks all AI responses no matter what language they are in.

Quote of the Week

“Keeping Andrew Luck upright was my entire job (in college). Part of it was identifying the unique players who are going to rush, which is what the model is doing. And for (AI) to do it nearly instantly and to be better than me was kind of a shot to my pride, but (I’m) also just so excited that we’re going to reveal in real-time something to viewers that is over the level of what NFL-caliber players are doing right now.”

— analytics expert and former Stanford center Sam Schwartzstein on using AI to spot blitzes for NFL broadcasts