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Agents and Copilots: AI News Week Ending 02/09/2024

February 26, 2024

“‼️New preprint (with @Dr_Park_Phd, @EzraKarger, and @PTetlock)! We study LLM Assistants in Forecasting! Results: GPT-4-Turbo Assistants improve forecasting accuracy by 23% This effect holds for superforecasting and biased assistants More details and preprint link below! https://t.co/TTbEOmtivC” / X – https://twitter.com/SchoeneggerPhil/status/1757417968865005850

OpenAI’s next AI product could be after your job (again) – Android Authority –
The company is working on AI agents that can take over the user’s device to perform even more complex tasks. https://www.androidauthority.com/openai-ai-agent-coming-soon-3412336/

OpenAI Develops Web Search Product in Challenge to Google — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-develops-web-search-product-in-challenge-to-google

AI agents as a new distribution channel – https://kojo.blog/agent-driven-commerce/

Google Launches Internal AI Model ‘Goose’ to Help Staff Code Faster – https://www.businessinsider.com/google-goose-ai-model-language-ai-coding-2024-2

Google Launches Internal AI Model ‘Goose’ to Help Staff Code Faster – https://archive.md/04LjR

“Say hi to Slack AI 👋 🔍 Find what you need faster ⏩ Summarize conversations instantly 💫 Declutter your day with custom recaps (coming soon) Learn more: https://t.co/5Gz0bjOLgs https://t.co/m9B7ljHgw4” / X – https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/1757811163138519180

Slack AI has arrived | Slack – https://slack.com/blog/news/slack-ai-has-arrived

Paper page – UFO: A UI-Focused Agent for Windows OS Interaction – https://huggingface.co/papers/2402.07939

“We’ve raised $117M from @natfriedman and others to build an AI software engineer. Code generation is both a product and a path to AGI, requiring new algorithms, lots of CUDA, frontier-scale training, RL, and a new UI. We are hiring! https://t.co/I3fOLmrKA8” / X – https://twitter.com/magicailabs/status/1758140204446323188

Magic – https://magic.dev/

“Went to Yosemite for the first time ever yesterday which was a lot of fun and truly a paradise on Earth 🏔️ I also got to test the Ai Pin out in a new place where I was expecting spotty signal but the latency was surprisingly low. Here’s some of my experiences with it 📌 https://t.co/Q6GULVlQsD” / X – https://twitter.com/HeySaiK/status/1758538164116099097

“My oversimplified view of how AI companies see (and are building) the near future of AI: Google: You get a personalized assistant that knows you, your email, etc. and helps you with it Microsoft: You get an intern to help with work OpenAI: Autonomous agents execute on your goals” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1757774925052456974

“We’ve got wunderful news: Today, we’re releasing Superlist 1.0 – the new home to all your lists. 💥 To-do lists, shopping lists, reading lists, playlists…we all work with lists every day. Superlist brings a modern approach to organizing your work, seamlessly blending personal… https://t.co/N9ALCdejbw” / X – https://twitter.com/Superlist/status/1757340922038120793

Superlist: Updates – https://www.superlist.com/updates

“Today, the collaborative power of the Replit editor is coming to AI Chat. You and your team members can now use AI Chat together, with Replit AI as an additional member of your team. Observe your collaborators in the Repl, and ask follow-up questions in each other’s sessions. https://t.co/mSofodRIPj” / X – https://twitter.com/Replit/status/1757814656377278959

“Sneak peek of the future 👀 (in excel lol) AI agents now in google sheets 🤖🧙‍♂️ Built this for myself since I wanted to scrape web to generate personalized emails in bulk from many data points If you’re in google sheets a lot for work, early access below ⬇️ https://t.co/ol8iK41dam” / X – https://twitter.com/jamescodez/status/1757492014760050889

“I built a copilot for podcasters Live feedback and question ideas for your interview, while you’re recording built with @AssemblyAI @OpenAI and @jxnlco’s delightful Instructor https://t.co/71s7jsZ7T0” / X – https://twitter.com/jakedahn/status/1758164734010884283

“https://t.co/jAMj9pAun4 has trained a groundbreaking model with many millions of tokens of context that performed far better in our evals than anything we’ve tried before. They’re using it to build an advanced AI programmer that can reason over your entire codebase and the… https://t.co/Mxuykb4EXa” / X – https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1758143612561568047

WebLINX – Real-world website navigation with multi-turn dialogue – McGill NLP – https://mcgill-nlp.github.io/weblinx/

Paper page – TravelPlanner: A Benchmark for Real-World Planning with Language Agents – https://huggingface.co/papers/2402.01622
Introducing Assistants API on Azure OpenAI Service enabling developers to easily build stateful AI-powered assistants in a secure environment with the latest GPT models. – https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/azure-openai-service-announces-assistants-api-new-models-for/ba-p/4049940

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