A big product from ChatGPT has been in beta for a few months. Now, it’s out in the wild, and people are loving it. More below.

In the news this week:

• 🚀 Code Interpreter launches

• ⚖️ More lawsuits re: ChatGPT

• 🏥 Mayo Clinic and AI

• 🤝 NYC’s AI hiring law

📰 AI in the News

ChatGPT Introduces Code Interpreter

ChatGPT users (who pay for the $20/month subscription) are in for a huge treat. They’re bringing Code Interpreter - a super powerful extension - out of beta and publicly available this week.

Code Interpreter writes programming code to do tasks. And it lets you upload files. Which means you can:

• Upload a dataset and generate any range of analyses you’re looking for

• Upload a PDF and extract all the text

• Upload an image and generate a color palette using its main colors

• Turn a flat image into an animated one

The AI community has been raving about Code Interpreter for the last months while it’s been in beta.

And now that it’s out, junior data analysts are quaking in their boots. Now, everyone gets otherwise complex charts/graphs generated for them in an instant.

To get access, upgrade to ChatGPT Plus, and Code Interpreter will be available sometime this week.

Copyright Convo Goes Mainstream

Until now, the discussion about AI and copyright has been limited to smaller-time artists and vocal segments of the art and gaming communities.

Now, comedian Sarah Silverman wants a part of the action.

Silverman is joining best-selling authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey in suing OpenAI (ChatGPT’s parent company) for copyright infringement.

ChatGPT can produce summaries of their books even though they never consented to letting OpenAI use their books to train their model.

It’s clear now that the copyright conversation is only going to keep mounting in pressure. Lawsuits related to AI-generated images and code have already been filed.

All follow the same general argument: you trained these AI models on our work without our permission, and now, these models can reproduce our work in endless quantities.

More Stories

• Digital media publishers are announcing plans for AI content and laying off writers at the same time. Coincidence? (link)

• Same thing with TV and radio - stations are making backups of their human hosts so they can react to breaking headlines faster. (link)

• 72% of F500 business leaders plan on adopting generative AI. (link)

• The Grammys are prohibiting music with “AI-generated elements”. (link)

• Researchers are pressure-testing ways to extend ChatGPT’s conversation length by 250,000x (that’s not a typo!) (link)

💡 Industry Insights

🏥 Healthcare

Mayo Clinic + Google: Google made an AI model that’s specifically trained for healthcare use cases, and it’s being put to use at Mayo Clinic. It’s impressive: its reasoning capabilities match or exceed human doctors. But it still gets things wrong. Even Google’s own research director said he wouldn’t want to involve the AI in his own family’s healthcare. (link)

AI-generated drugs: The first one is headed to clinical trials. Insilico Medicine used AI to both pick the drug target and design the drug. AI is poised to launch all types of R&D into hyperdrive. (link)

Real-time genome profiling: Scientists have designed an AI tool that can rapidly decode a brain tumor’s DNA to determine its molecular identity during surgery vs. days/weeks following. (link)

👩‍⚖️ Legal

Protecting enterprises: Given the controversy around AI and copyright above, what would you suggest AI media companies do to combat concerns from enterprise customers? Adobe and Shutterstock are committing to one route: full indemnification. (link)

Everyone’s an AI company: Even law firms. AI chatter is all about doing more with less, and clients are asking their law firms if they can walk the walk. Top firms are now hiring in-house data scientists and software engineers to build out internal AI tools. (link)

NYC’s AI hiring law: If you use “AI” in your hiring process, NYC is requiring you to report an annual bias audit to ensure fairness. Like lots of regulation, the new hiring law has merit conceptually, but the way it’s implemented is far from perfect. (link)

🌎 World Affairs

Tightening on China: The US government will soon require cloud providers with AI services (like AWS and Google Cloud) to seek approval before opening access to Chinese companies. (link)

📈 Venture Deals

• Neko Health (founded by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek) raises $65 million for full-body scans (link)

• Resistant, which catches financial crime using AI, raised $11 million (link)

• Patented, a service that detects intellectual property infringement, raised $4 million (link)

• Intelecy, which helps industrial engineers deploy ML models with no code, raised $3.5 million (link)

• JustPaid, which helps companies monitor payments with automations and benchmarking, raised $3.5 million (link)

• Brilliant Labs, a maker of AI-powered AR glasses, raised $3 million (link)

🛠️ Latest AI Tools

• Describe your dream Spotify/Apple Music playlist and create it with Playlist. (link)

• Create virtual spokespeople for your brand with VEED AI Avatars. (link)

• Whimsical generates flowcharts from text prompts. (link)

• Plugin Surf helps you sort through the hundreds of ChatGPT plugins. (link)

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