#58: Big ChatGPT Updates, A New Autonomous AI Agent, Vertical-Specific LLMs, McKinsey’s State of AI Report, and New Google AI Search Features

Huge updates for ChatGPT are announced OpenAI just announced huge
updates for ChatGPT that hold the potential to transform how we use
this popular AI tool. The updates include a number of things
including: Prompt examples: At the beginning of a new chat, you’ll
now see examples to help you get started; Suggested replies:
ChatGPT now suggests relevant ways to continue your conversation;
GPT-4 by default: When starting a new chat as a Plus user, ChatGPT
will remember your previously selected model — no more defaulting
back to GPT-3.5; Upload multiple files: You can now ask ChatGPT to
analyze data and generate insights across multiple files. This is
available with the Code Interpreter beta for all Plus users; Stay
logged in: You’ll no longer be logged out every 2 weeks; Keyboard
shortcuts: Work faster with shortcuts, like (Ctrl) + Shift + ; to
copy last code block. Try (Ctrl) + / to see the complete list.
Also, missing from the update announcement but spotted by
entrepreneur Neal Khosla on Twitter (and confirmed by Marketing AI
Institute) it looks like the cap on messages in GPT-4 (within
ChatGPT Plus) has gone away.  A new, autonomous AI agent
debuts from OthersideAI Matt Shumer, the CEO of OthersideAI, maker
of the popular AI writing tool Hyperwrite, just debuted an AI
system called “Agent-1,” a breakthrough model that can operate
software like a human. Agent-1 will power the company’s Personal
Assistant product, which lets you give AI commands that it can then
execute autonomously using your web browser. In a demo video posted
to Twitter, Shumer showed Agent-1 controlling a Google Cloud
dashboard on its own. Other demo videos of Personal Assistant have
shown the tool autonomously planning travel for a user and drafting
and sending an email to team members on its own based on a simple
command given by the user.  A vertical-specific LLM launches -
and is a good example of what’s possible Writer, a leading AI
software tool and friend of Marketing AI Institute, has released a
large language model designed specifically for use in healthcare.
The model is called Palmyra-Med, and Writer says it has
outperformed both GPT-4 and medically trained human test-takers on
PubMedQA, the leading benchmark for biomedical question answering.
Unlike a generic model like GPT-4, which knows a little bit about a
lot of things and, as such, can be used for a wide variety of
tasks, Palmyra-Med is specifically trained on publicly available
sets of medical data. Writer clearly hopes to make generative AI
much more accessible to healthcare organizations. Historically,
adoption in healthcare of LLMs has been limited, given healthcare
organizations’ needs for specific medical accuracy from AI tools
and robust security and compliance features that many AI systems
lack. How will this change AI in an industry like healthcare? There
are many more topics to be discussed, including McKinsey’s annual
report, and a peek inside what’s happening over at Zoom.