#19 Autocomplete Newsletter. Narrato gains AI powers, Midjourney blocks images of chinese president. Top 9 Generative AI books. VC's still have their cashbooks out. School tutoring kids with ChatGPT.
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AirTree invests in generative AI content creation and management platform Narrato.
Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms, with $4.5 billion invested in 2022. Narrato, an AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it had joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. Based in San Francisco, Narrato raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by AirTree Ventures, the Australian firm that was an early investor in Canva, Linktree, and Employment Hero.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/03/narrato/
Midjourney's Platform Blocks Images of Chinese President.
Generative AI allows users to create all kinds of fakes. In recent days, fake pictures of former President Donald Trump running from police, Russian President Putin cuddling a kitty cat, and even the Pope in a white Balenciaga puffer coat have ricocheted around the web. What can’t you make?
You can't make a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping—at least not on the generative AI platform Midjourney.
Critics argue that the ban constitutes a form of censorship, undermining the fundamental principles of free speech and expression.
These are the nine best books to get up to speed on the new world of generative AI.
Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn cofounder, investor at venture firm Greylock Partners, and former board member of OpenAI.
Read it on AmazonThe Master Algorithm
Pedro Domingos, professor emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington
Read it on AmazonThe Age of AI: And Our Human Future
Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher. Kissinger, former Secretary of State in the Nixon & Ford administrations; Schmidt, former CEO of Google; Huttenlocher, an acclaimed computer vision research who is currently a dean at MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing.
Read it on AmazonPower and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, all professors at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
Read it on AmazonRebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis, both professors at New York University. Marcus, is a professor emeritus of psychology and neural science, while Davis is a professor of computer science.
Read it on AmazonHuman Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at UC-Berkeley who studies AI, algorithms, and machine learning.
Read it on AmazonArtificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Melanie Mitchell, professor at the Santa Fe Institute who researches visual recognition and artificial intelligence systems.
Read it on AmazonThe AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond
Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Isaac Kohane. Lee, Corporate VP for Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Goldberg, medical and science journalist; Kohane, chair of department of medical informatics at Harvard Medical School.
Read it on AmazonThe Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, 2nd Edition
Margaret A. Boden, a professor of cognitive science at the University of Sussex, who studies artificial intelligence, philosophy, and psychology.
Read it on Amazon
VCs continue to pour dollars into generative AI.
According to a PitchBook report released this month, VCs have steadily increased their positions in generative AI, from $408 million in 2018 to $4.8 billion in 2021 to $4.5 billion in 2022. Angel and seed deals have also grown, with 107 deals and $358.3 million invested in 2022 compared with just 41 and $102.8 million in 2018.
Crunchbase broke down some of the biggest winners in an early February dispatch. In the video category, WSC Sports, which uses AI to generate personally tailored video clips for sports fans, landed $100 million in Series D funding nearly a year ago. In the writing space, Jasper, developer of a platform that helps create and vet original marketing content, raised $125 million in an October round led by Insight Partners, valuing it at over $1 billion.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/generative-ai-venture-capital/
SILICON VALLEY PRIVATE SCHOOL GIVING KIDS "AI TUTORS"
Would you trust OpenAI's ChatGPT to help teach your kids?
You might be inclined to say "no." A wealth of evidence demonstrates that ChatGPT and other chatbots can frequently get the facts wrong and make plagiarizing all too easy.
But a Silicon Valley private school called Khan Lab School thinks differently. Enter its newly unveiled, AI-powered tutor called "Khanmigo," quietly created with the help of OpenAI, the Washington Post reports.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/silicon-valley-school-ai-tutors-openai