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Sunday Rundown

10X AI (Issue #1): StableLM, MiniGPT-4, AI Sketching Apps, and a Chupacabra

New Sunday segment on "Why Try AI," a bunch of AI-assisted sketching tools, recent AI announcements, Bing AI hacks, and a vintage text-to-image attempt gone wrong.

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Daniel Nest
Apr 23, 2023
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Happy Sunday!

After quite a bit of consideration, I decided to introduce a new weekly section to Why Try AI. (Don’t worry: You can easily turn off these Sunday updates if you want to continue only hearing from me once a week.)

Why the new segment?

Because there’s way too much AI stuff to cover. I wanted to make the newsletter more newsletter-y and make it even more useful to those looking for an extra dose of AI.

Your votes on my poll in the “Learn Prompting” post seem to bear this out:

The new “newsy” segment

The new weekly segment is called “10X AI” and will include 10 AI-related entries, split across the following topics:

  • New AI developments

  • Easy-to-use AI tools (ideally free)

  • Try-it-at-home AI tips

  • AI fails

All of the new entries will still be about consumer-level, beginner-friendly AI topics rather than broad industry perspectives and business-oriented platforms. Why Try AI very much remains focused on the average Joe and Jane.

The usual Thursday deep dives you all know and tolerate will con…

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