In this weeks issue, we take a look at OpenAI’s DevDay and other news from the past week, as well as more on new tools revealed for ChatGPT at DevDay. I’ll also introduce you to NASA’s mega prompt, BIDARA, which is awesome.

News

OpenAI announcements from DevDay: November 6th saw the inaugral edition of OpenAi’s DevDay and they announced a slew of changes, new products, creator payouts and much more. Read my summary here and an article covering everything launched on the day here

Elon Musk’s xAI announces Grok: a new chatbot is being slowly released by xAI, Elon Musk’s AI venture, that is based on “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” and will have a bit of wit as well as answer questions that other LLM’s won’t. Read all about it here

China issues guidelines for the development of humanoid robots: the government has issued guidelines and goals for the deployment of humanoid robots with distinct milestones in 2025 and 2027. Find out the full story here

Barack Obama releases his AI reading list: the 44th President is using his foundation to bring together thought leaders in the AI space this week. Prior to the meet up he released his AI reading list here; it’s a good list.

AI showing great progress on heart disease prediction: Artificial intelligence has shown potential in outperforming healthcare professionals in detecting heart valve disease by analyzing sound data from a digital stethoscope. Check out the article here

Tools

Given all the hype surrounding OpenAI’s DevDay, it would be remiss of me not to bring you some of the highlights around not only the developer tools, but also ChatGPT. The ability to make your own GPTs was demonstrated live on stage. See a snippet of the video here or for those of you who really want to get into the meat of the day, here is the opening keynote speech by CEO Sam Altman. It’s incredible how quickly all of AI is moving at!

Prompts

I would have loved to have access to the GPT Builder but I need to wait for the roll out like most everybody else, so that I could have shown you how simple it is to build one (I’ve seen a few videos already from those lucky enough to have access). Instead, I’m going to share with you a prompt that was developed by NASA, cutely called BIDARA. It is a very long prompt that set out terms of reference for creating products using biomimicary - in other words finding something in nature that works and mimicing that to create a product. The process is absolutely fascinating. You can find out how I got on talking through the process of creating a product to tackle urban air quality here. It’s a lot of reading, but I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the interaction.