New ChatGPT features are here

Welcome back to another week in AI — Here’s today’s lineup:

🗞️ The Latest in AI: New ChatGPT features enhance user experience

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Verble — Your AI speech writing assistant

📸 Business Spotlight: Every Amazon team is working on generative AI

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

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🗞️ The Latest in AI: New ChatGPT features enhance user experience

OpenAI just released a new feature for ChatGPT that suggests follow up prompts at the bottom of outputs. The company is also in the process of rolling out additional updates that will enhance the user experience.

New features:

• Prompt examples

• Suggested replies

• GPT-4 by default for Plus users

• Upload multiple files

• Stay logged in for more than two weeks

• Keyboard shortcuts

Why it matters: Although these are small updates, OpenAI’s attention to detail is commendable. Amidst competition with Google, Meta and Anthropic, OpenAI is showing receptiveness to user feedback. Conversations with ChatGPT feel more natural with every wave of new updates.

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🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Verble — Your AI speech writing assistant

Verble is an AI speech writing assistant that can enhance your verbal persuasion and storytelling. Whether you’re writing a business pitch, a keynote address or a wedding speech, Verble is there to help you express yourself effectively.

Three-step process:

1. Chat with your AI assistant: Answer targeted questions about your thoughts, audience and message.

2. Create a draft: Verble transforms your thoughts into a clear and organized draft.

3. Make it your own: Smart editing that incorporates techniques used by some of the best speakers in the world.

Check out this pitch convincing a company’s executives to leverage AI to operate more efficiently:

Click here to try Verble. For a limited time you can create a pro account for free.

📸 Business Spotlight: Every Amazon team is working on generative AI

During Thursday’s Q2 2023 earnings call, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that “every single one” of Amazon’s businesses has “multiple generative AI initiatives going right now.”

What you need to know:

• The company offers infrastructure and services via AWS that can help power many generative AI applications.

• Generative AI initiatives help Amazon be more cost-effective, streamline operations, and enhance customer experience.

• Alexa could receive generative AI-based improvements.

• Job listings indicate that the company is looking to improve Amazon Search with an interactive conversational experience.

Why it matters: Jassy’s comments stress how much Amazon is investing in artificial intelligence. He’s one of several CEOs to hype up AI this earnings season.

• Apple CEO Tim Cook: AI and machine learning are “virtually embedded in every product that we build.”

• Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: Google’s new Search Generative Experience is “the next major evolution in seach.”

• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: The company is working on “a number of new products,” including creative tools and AI agents.

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🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• Robotaxis: Autonomous-driving company Pony.ai and Toyota are teaming up to mass produce robotaxis in China.

• Leveling up: Microsoft is shutting down its digital assistant app Cortana to focus on modern-day AI advances.

• AI climate control: IBM and NASA launch carbon emissions-tracking AI model to monitor climate change.

• Falling behind: Apple’s ChatGPT rival is reportedly significantly behind competitors.

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Jack

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