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• Meet the (AI) Neighbors! 🏘️ 👩‍👧‍👦

• SpaceX’s Starship finally ready to go amongst the stars? 🚀🌟

• Everyone gets a chatbot! 🤖

Meet the (AI) Neighbors! 🏘️ 👩‍👧‍👦

Hey there! So, imagine a virtual town filled with AI residents, going about their day, brushing their teeth, discussing who’s going to win the mayor elections and being super nice to each other. Sounds cool, right? Well, some Stanford and Google researchers used multiple instances of ChatGPT to create these charming AI characters.

It's a fascinating experiment, but before you get carried away, it's not a Skynet situation. It's more like a bunch of chatbots role-playing in a text adventure game.

How does it work, you ask? Well, the AI agents were created using separate instances of ChatGPT, each given a background story and role to play. To make their interactions seem realistic, the researchers devised a framework that coordinated the agents' actions based on their circumstances and the time of day.

For example, John Lin, the AI pharmacy shopkeeper, wakes up and heads to the kitchen, where he bumps into his AI son, Eddy, who tells him about his homework for this week (We all know what that conversation is like 🙄 ). These two agents are completely independent, but the framework provides them with the information about each other's presence and actions, allowing them to have a delightful morning chat.

While it's still a bit impractical for widespread use, this experiment showcases the potential of AI to simulate human interactions in virtual worlds. And who knows? Maybe we'll see an AI-powered world soon, filled with friendly, teeth-brushing virtual neighbors!

SpaceX’s Starship finally ready to go amongst the stars? 🚀🌟

There’s some good news for space enthusiasts! Buckle up, because SpaceX's Starship is ready to blast off (well, almost) and it's all happening soon! According to Elon Musk's tweet, we could be witnessing the first orbital flight test of the fully stacked Starship spacecraft as early as the end of the third week of April. Exciting times, right?

So, what's the Starship all about? It's SpaceX's shiny, reusable flagship spacecraft that's meant to carry astronauts and payloads on deep space adventures, like visiting the Moon and Mars. And let's not forget its massive sidekick, the Super Heavy booster, that helps lift it off Earth.

If all goes well and the launch happens on April 17th, we'll see the Super Heavy and Starship duo taking off from Texas, with the Super Heavy heading to the Gulf of Mexico and Starship orbiting Earth before landing in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. We already have our popcorn ready, folks, this is going to be one heck of a show! 🚀🍿

Everyone gets a chatbot! 🤖

Have you ever wanted to create your own chatbot? Well, Poe, the latest brainchild of Quora, lets you build your very own chatbot using prompts using top-notch language models like GPT-4 from OpenAI, and Claude+ from Anthropic.

Quora said that people are already using prompts to make bots speak like their favorite authors, target specific audiences, or even turn messages into emojis! Quora’s CEO Adam D’Angelo also shared a few fun bots like the ‘Jack Sparrow’ pirate bot, a Japanese language tutor bot and our favorite RoastMaster. What’s clear is that Quora’s Poe is letting everyone go bonkers with all types of bots (obviously within limits, duh!) they want to create and we are super excited! What kind of bot-tastic creations are you going to be making?

☄️ Asteroids ☄️

YouTube Premium is rolling new features where you'll now enjoy even more perks, like SharePlay support for co-watching, crispier 1080p video quality, and nifty queue controls on mobile devices. 📺

Global PC shipments are hitting a rough patch with a slump of almost a third in Q1 2023 with Apple's feeling the pain the most with a 40% drop. 📉💻🙃

South Korea's antitrust regulator hit Google with a whopping $31.88 million fine for blocking mobile video games on a competitor's platform. 🎮💸😬

⚒️ ToolBox Tuesdays ⚒️

LMQL - Open source programming language and platform for language model interaction.

ChatGDB - Use ChatGPT to debug inside the GNU debugger.

Sheepy-T - A fully open-source language model instruction-tuned and based on GPT-J. Demo of it running locally on iPhone 14.

Marketing copilot AI - Describe your content style, target audience and get 60 unique tweet ideas.

Teamsmart AI - Open ChatGPT instantly with chrome extension. No login required and instant access to a library of quality prompts.

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