WordPress will write your blogs using AI

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In today’s update:

📰 News: WordPress AI will now write your blogs.

🛠️ Tools: AI helps you improve your language and pronunciation.

🧠 Learn: How LLM tokenizers work under the hood.

🎲 Misc: Mercedes wins approval for Level-3 self-driving in California!

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WordPress AI will now write your blogs

What: 43% of the web is built on Wordpress, with millions of users and corporations using the software to publish blogs and digital content.

Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress, released a new AI powered writing assistant to simplify your writing tasks -

• Sentence to Article - Create formatted articles from simple text prompt.

• Tone Adjustment - Change the tone of text, from humorous to empathetic in one click.

• Title and Summary - Create titles and concise summary

• Translation - Translate content in 12 languages.

Why it matters: Brace for AI-generated content spam. The new writing tool enables low-quality, similar sounding AI-generated content to go mainstream.

For $10 a month, you could generate unlimited content and churn out thousands of pages, every day!

This effectively lowers the quality of search results and degrades internet experience for all users.

But zooming out, the adoption of AI-writing tools signal a major shift in the digital content industry and paves the way for new companies to disrupt the market.

New Tools
Leverage AI to grow

• Gliglish: AI language teacher to help you improve your fluency and speak with confidence. Instead of text based learning, you talk with an AI to learn a new language and improve pronunciation (link)

• Socialite AI: Reformat your content for any platform - Convert a tweet into an article or a podcast into a tweet (link)

• AI Sidekick: A personal Slack assistant that turns daily Q&A into insights to prevent burnout and identify blockers, answers team queries without sifting through documents (link)

• CoableAI: AI programming assistant to tackle coding challenges, manage GitHub repos, provide instant coding solutions, and transform your workflow from writing code to debugging.(link)

Learn

• LLMs like GPT-4 consume your text input as token internally. This post helps you understand how tokenizers work under the hood. (link)

• LLamaIndex to help you connect your private data with LLMs securely (link)

Misc
From the corners of the Internet

• Leaked: Zuck’s thoughts on Apple’s Vision Pro (link)

• Did GPT-4 discover the same sorting optimization as Google’s AlphaDev, that too in minutes? (link)

• ChatGPT’s weird behavior, unable to correctly repeat or reason about the string “ davidjl” (link)

• Google gets rid of million+ sqft of office space (link) but wants hybrid workers to return and includes attendance in performance reviews!(link)

• AI startup Cohere raises $270M at $2B valuation (link)

• FBI: Blackmailers are using AI to create deepfakes to extort victims (link)

• Mercedes receives automated-driving permit in California: Hands-off, eyes-off, legally allowed to watch movie up to 40 mph. (link)