Sunday Signal #1

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Hey friends 👋 ,

This is the first Sunday Signal drop of its kind. 

Each week I consume 500+ pieces of content in tech and AI.

I filter them and send you the best, each Sunday.

I'm following my passion inside the space and I'm excited to bring you along for the ride.

It's a chilly afternoon here in London– let's dive right in!

ChatGPT goes wild, an AI film festival and LensaAI madness

Noteworthy News

• 🔗 Link: Cassie Kozyrkov wrote a great piece demystifying ChatGPT. From writing code to creating your first blog post, this has it all.

• 🔗 Link: McKinsey dropped their state of AI report. Here's a quick summary to save you time (thanks to ChatGPT).

• 🔗 Link: DeepMind introduced Dramatron, a new tool for writers to co-write theatre and film scripts with a language model.

• 🔗 Link: RunwayML introduced the first annual AI Film Festival. A celebration of the art and artists making the impossible at the forefront of AI filmmaking.

• 🔗 Link: Zapier launched OpenAI on their platform. You can now build super cool stuff using no-code with AI + Zapier.

• 🔗 Link: DeepMind’s AlphaCode outperforms human programmers in software challenges.

Cool Creations

• 🔗 Link: Kazuki Nakayashiki built a ChatGPT chrome extension. Needless to say it ran the numbers and got 10,000 installs in 5 days. (I use it daily!)

• 🔗 Link: Kavir Kaycee created 150 pieces of targeted content for his website in just a few hours using no-code.

• 🔗 Link: Jason Shen built a random story generator using no-code that creates fun synopses.

Top Tweets

• 🔗 Link: A simple ChatGPT breakdown by Lior. He also writes a great weekly summary which I recommend you check out here.

• 🔗 Link: A warning about image based AI generator apps.

• 🔗 Link: Pieter Levels highlighted a reddit post about the real opportunity in AI for most people will not be in AI but in building a front end around it.

Weird DALLE of the Week

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