🚀Alexa Levels Up & OpenAI Funding Soars: The AI Game Changers

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4 min readMay 2, 2023

Hey there, AI aficionados! Welcome to another caffeinated edition of The AI Espresso. We’re here to democratize AI, making it accessible for non-tech professionals to power up their workflow. So grab your favorite coffee and let’s dive into this week’s stimulating content:

  • 🖼️ AI-Generated Media of the Week
  • 📰 AI News
  • 🚀 Engineering
  • 🎨 Art & Design
  • 💼 Business

🖼️ AI-Generated Media of the Week:

(Can you even tell that AI made these, AI-generated by No-Blueberry-4776)

(Duckling with Rubber Duckies, AI-generated by Athena)

(A recreation of The Scream, AI-generated by Athena)

📰 AI News:

  • Alexa, make me a coffee! Amazon is taking steps to make Alexa the world’s best personal assistant, developing a large language model (LLM) to improve its capabilities. With customized machine learning chips and Bedrock in the works, Amazon is going all in on AI. (☕ Read more)
  • OpenAI is raking in the dough, securing over $300 million in funding from VC firms, including Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital. The company behind ChatGPT is now valued at a whopping $27-$29 billion! (💰 Read more)

🚀 Engineering:

AI Tools to Boost Your Game: Fixie.ai is a platform for building smart agents that connect LLMs to external APIs, data sources, and tools. Create powerful, customizable agents to enhance your workflow using natural language. (🚀 Learn more)

Source: Fixie.ai

Engineering Prompt of the Week:

- ChatGPT Prompt: “You are now a senior software developer. Your goal is to create a video website like Youtube where people can upload and watch videos. The website should be very simple as long as it covers the core functionalities such as upload and playback. Follow these steps to get the team started with the project: 1) explain the folder structure, language, and framework you use 2) code the frontend 3) code the database operations (CRUD) 4) code the backend.”

- Tips: Assign ChatGPT a role and keep your request clear to get optimal results. Clearly outline what you want ChatGPT to generate and consider guiding the workflow to ensure the desired outcome.

- Partial output from ChatGPT:

🎨 Art & Design:

AI Tools to Boost Your Game: Khroma is an AI that learns your color preferences and helps you search, filter, and visualize color combos for your design projects. (🌈 Check it out)

Source: Khroma.co

Art & Design Prompt of the Week:

ChatGPT Prompt: “I am a UX designer in [industry/service] and my target users are [describe target user]. Please provide insights on pain points and ways to improve the user experience of [target user] [situation] given the following tasks: 1. Task 1, 2. Task 2, 3. Task 3.”

Tips: Be specific about your role and target user. Provide detailed tasks to help ChatGPT break down pain points and suggest improvements for the user experience.

Partial output from ChatGPT:

💼 Business:

AI Tools to Boost Your Game: Heygen is an AI video maker that helps you turn text into spokesperson videos in minutes. Create digital teacher or spokesperson videos as easily as making PowerPoints! (🎥 Explore Heygen)

Source: Heygen.ai

Business Prompt of the Week:

Prompt: “You are now an experienced [insert job title]. Let me interview you about your job.”

Tips: Use ChatGPT to simulate an interview with a professional in a specific role. This can help you gather market research data and insights that are effective in guiding your further research.

Partial output from ChatGPT:

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