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Mon. 02/27 – Here Come The Prompt Engineers

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Snap wants to go the route of the movie Her, with a personified chatbot inside of Snapchat. Interesting layoffs at Twitter. Yes. More. Inside Apple's Exploratory Design Group. The best AR glasses we’ve seen yet. And, right on schedule, here come the prompt engineers. Sponsors: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/techmeme and get on your way to being your best self. Links: Snapchat is releasing its own AI chatbot powered by ChatGPT (The Verge) Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter (The Verge) Google announces new features for Android and Wear OS (TechCrunch) Apple’s Secret ‘XDG’ Team Is Working on More Than Just a Glucose Monitor (Bloomberg) Exclusive: These are Xiaomi's new Wireless AR Smart Glasses, and they look like they're from the future (XDA Developers) Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required. (Washington Post) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, February 27th, 2023.

0:07.6

I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:08.9

Snap wants to go the route of the movie Her, with a personified chatbot inside of Snapchat.

0:15.0

Interesting layoffs at Twitter, yes, more layoffs at Twitter.

0:18.5

Inside Apple's exploratory design group, the best AR glasses we've seen yet and right on schedule here come

0:25.0

the prompt engineers here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:30.5

A friend of the show Alex Cantruitz has been writing about how it's going to be all

0:36.8

about the APIs for the next few months. Can businesses build off the APIs of these

0:41.8

large language models? Can existing platforms make is that.

0:45.0

Snap plans of these large language models.

0:46.0

This then is that.

0:48.0

Snap plans to release a Snapchat chatbot called My AI, powered powered by Open AI's Chat GPT, pinned to the

0:56.8

App's Chat tab only available initially to Plus subscribers, quoting the Verge.

1:03.8

The goal is to eventually make the bot available to all of Snapchat's 750 million monthly

1:08.7

users, CEO Evan Speiegel tells the Verge.

1:12.0

The big idea is that in addition to talking to

1:14.0

our friends and family every day we're going to talk to AI every day he says and

1:17.9

this is something we're well positioned to do as a messaging service and quote

1:22.2

at launch my AI is essentially just a fast mobile-friendly version of ChatGPT inside Snapchat.

1:29.2

The main difference is that SNAP's version is more restricted in what it can answer.

1:33.2

Snaps employees have trained it to adhere to the company's trust and safety guidelines

1:37.1

and not give responses that include swearing, violence, sexually explicit content,

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