🥟 Chao-Down #243 OpenAI set to launch GPT Store next week, Google is working on an advanced version of Bard that you have to pay for, FTC offers $25k prize for detecting AI voice cloning

Is OpenAI about to have its App Store moment?

People who have already been building their own GPT assistants have already started to receive notice that OpenAI will be launching the GPT Store next week.

Since announcing the product during the company’s developer day, the public reception to GPTs has been quite strong as it allows anyone to create a specialized digital assistant through a simple, no-code interface.

The community has certainly embraced it with lists collecting people’s favorites like the “20 Best Homework GPTs for College Students in 2023” (studyx.ai). Now the GPT Store will put all those things under one central place.

How will the market respond to the GPT Store? We’ll see next week to find out.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI In Talks With Dozens of Publishers to License Content (Bloomberg)

AI is saving sales professionals more than two hours of work each day (Business Insider India)

Tech’s AI Hangover Might Just Be Getting Started (WSJ)

FTC offers $25,000 prize for detecting AI-enabled voice cloning (bleepingcomputer.com)

Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for (The Verge)

The AI Hallucinations Plaguing Chatbots Can Have Utility (Bloomberg)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

Why asking your customers what they want doesn't work (substack.com)

Lessons from going freemium: a decision that broke our business (lennysnewsletter.com)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

francoismichel/ssh3: SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 (Github)

apache/incubator-answer: A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales. Whether it's a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Apache Answer. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

TinyGPT-V: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model via Small Backbones (arxiv)

Generative AI Beyond LLMs: System Implications of Multi-Modal Generation (arxiv)

Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris (The New York Times)

Companies losing pricing power after years of unbridled spending (CNBC)

What Is the Stanley Cup Craze? (Vice)

Will a Bitcoin ETF Make Crypto Go Mainstream? (nymag.com)

Satellite imagery analysis shows immense scale of dark fishing industry (TechCrunch)

Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food (Reuters)

One Last Bite 😋

Is Harry Potter the key to understanding AI? New research!