Weekly Findings In Data Science and AI
A New AI Search Engine And A Mobile App For Stable Diffusion — Weekly Findings
An iPhone app for Stable Diffusion, GitHub Codespaces and a new AI search engine for the web in this week's findings.
Metaphor — Search The Web Using Generative AI
Metaphor is a new search engine that uses generative AI similar to GPT-3, but instead of predicting text, it predicts links.
I’ve tried using GPT-3 to do this before by asking it to suggest me links for certain things, but the results have been poor. Often the provided links return “not found”. Metaphor seems to be doing much better.
On Metaphor’s Twitter page they gave an example where they prompted for persons similar to Elon Musk with specific characteristics, like a person living during the 19th century. I tried to do the same with Sherlock Holmes with the following prompt:
Examples of clever fictional characters that are similar to Sherlock Holmes are.
A couple of the results were different pages describing Sherlock Holmes. Others retrieved what was searched for with Wikipedia pages of similar detectives: Hercule Poirot…
