Good morning, AI enthusiasts!

Just 11 days after the public release of Code Interpreter, ChatGPT has another huge update.

And yes, people are already hacking it. Let’s dig in.

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 Huge ChatGPT update allows ‘custom instructions’

• 🗞️ Google’s “Genesis“ AI can write news articles

• 🚔 Police use AI to catch drug trafficker

• 🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🤖 Huge ChatGPT update allows ‘custom instructions’

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The Rundown: OpenAI has released ‘Custom instructions,‘ a huge update to ChatGPT. It gives you more control over responses by setting instructions for the model to remember across all conversations.

Details:

• Allows you to insert two prompts of up to 1500 characters for ChatGPT to remember across conversations

• Available in Beta for Plus users (everywhere except for the UK and EU) and ‘coming soon’ to free users

• To enable, click the three dots under your ChatGPT history → Settings & Beta → Beta Features → Custom Instructions

• Besides custom instructions, OpenAI has also increased GPT-4’s message cap from 25 to 50 every 3 hours

Insane examples (within the past 12 hours):

• Nick Dobos showed us how to recreate babyAGI

• Roman Semenov jailbroke ChatGPT against previous instructions

This update comes just 11 days after the release of Code Interpreter. The production speed of OpenAI is truly incredible.

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GOOGLE

🗞️ Google’s “Genesis“ AI can write news articles

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The Rundown: Google is actively meeting with news organizations to pitch an AI tool, code-named "Genesis," that can write news articles.

Details:

• The tool has been pitched to several publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the owner of The Wall Street Journal

• Some executives found it "unsettling," expressing concerns about AI producing inaccurate news stories

• Google clarifies that the AI-enabled tools are not meant to replace journalists but rather to act as co-pilots

Our take: Will AI replace clickbait journalists? Possibly. Will AI replace fact-checking? No. The role of investigative journalism and hard fact-checking will be more important than ever in the age of AI-generated content.

NEW YORK POLICE

🚔 Police use AI to catch drug trafficker

The Rundown: Police in New York used an AI-driven platform called Rekor to identify and apprehend a drug trafficker named David Zayas.

Details:

• The platform uses an automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system with 480 cameras to scan 16 million vehicles a week, collecting data like license plate numbers, make, and model

• Rekor's software analyzes regional traffic patterns and records vehicle trajectories to identify suspicious behavior

• By assessing Zayas' travel patterns between Massachusetts and upstate New York, the algorithm determined that his activity was similar to a drug trafficker

Our take: While AI allowing law enforcement to identify criminal behavior is amazing, it’s slightly concerning to think of the potential for misuse and invasion of privacy.

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QUICK HITS

🙈 Scientists are using AI to ‘talk’ to animals

Scientists are leveraging portable sensors and AI to communicate with various animal species. While the technology won't enable humans to speak like animals, it's helping us to understand their complex communication methods and even interact in their own languages.

💻 GitHub Copilot injects an AI Chat

GitHub Copilot, the world’s most popular AI coding assistant, has announced its new Copilot Chat feature is now available as a limited public beta for enterprise companies and organizations. It’s similar to ChatGPT, designed to enhance developers' productivity.

🔥 AI headshot app Remini tops Instagram’s Threads

Remini, an AI headshot app that enables users to create professional headshots from selfies, has gone completely rogue on TikTok, overtaking Instagram’s new ‘Threads‘ app as the leader in the Apple App Store.

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