The $100 Billion F*uck Up

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Zain Kahn
February 12, 2023

(Total read time: 2 minutes)

Hello Superhuman, welcome to your weekly buffet of AI must-knows.

It's been a big week in AI, so let's cut to the chase. Here's what you'll get in today's triple threat:🤖 3 must-know things that happened in AI this week💪 3 AI tutorials to level up your skills⚡ 3 AI tools to supercharge your productivity🧠 Insight of the week: The real reason Microsoft wants to compete with Google on AI

🤖 3 must-know things that happened in AI this week 

  1. The $100 Billion F*ck Up: This week was the King Kong vs Godzilla of AI, as Microsoft and Google made much-anticipated announcements about their AI products. And guess what? Godzilla shot itself in the foot. Google's presentation was a huge own goal with a couple of un-Google-like mishaps (such as a misplaced phone). Markets were were ruthless in response, as Google's market cap dropped by a whopping $100 billion. (source)

  2. What about King Kong? More like Bing Kong: If Google's presentation was an own-goal, Microsoft's event was a dribble past 5 players and a spectacular bicycle kick goal to send the crowd of nerds and investors alike into a frenzy. Microsoft announced an all new AI-powered Bing search and Microsoft Edge browser. The excitement was enough to send Bing from top 200 to top 20 on the App Store charts. You can sign up for the new Bing here.

  3. "I want people to know we made them dance": If things weren't already heated enough between the tech giants, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella really brought the heat in an interview earlier this week, saying "They (Google) will definitely wanna come out and show that they can dance, and I want people to know that we made them dance." This is a must-watch (source)

And I don't wanna rub more salt into Google's wounds, but here's my meme of the week to round off a spicy few days in AI:

💪 3 AI tutorials to level up your skills 

  1. With so much hype over the new ChatGPT-powered Bing Search, AI engineer Riley Goodside put together a list of fascinating prompts you can try (link)

  2. How to use ChatGPT as your personal writing assistant (link)

  3. 150 prompts to help you be more productive with ChatGPT (link)

⚡ 3 AI tools to supercharge your productivity 

  1. WriteSonic - Create SEO-optimized and plagiarism-free content for your blogs, ads, emails, and websites 10X faster (link)

  2. Stockimg.AI - Generate stock images, wallpapers, and other visual assets with AI (link)

  3. Ellie - Ellie is an email writing assistant that learns from your writing style and crafts replies as if they were written by you (link)

🧠  Big Insight: The real reason Microsoft wants to compete with Google on AI?

Will Summerlin from ARKInvest puts forward an interesting theory for why Microsoft is competing so hard with Google on AI and Search:

"Microsoft is trying to lower Google’s search margins which will make it harder for Google to continue running Cloud and other competitive businesses at a loss.

Google's search business is highly profitable and funds other loss-making business lines. Historically, they have operated cloud at a loss (-$480mm in Q4 FY22) to compete more aggressively. Lowering search margins applies pressure to every other Alphabet business…many of which are competitive with Microsoft."

You can read the full thing here.

🧞‍♂️ Your wish is my command 

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Until next week!Zain