Aditya's Newsletter Edition #6

In today’s edition:

• Reality Check: It’s Time To Thank You Guys!

• Ideas and (no!) Success Stories: GPT-4 Vision API

• Articles: Ideal Social Network, 10 years of failure, and more

• News: Apple’s $5B AI servers, Google invests in Anthropic, X subscription, and more

• No sponsored or paid content

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Reality Check
It’s Time To Thank You Guys!

At the time of writing this, Aditya’s Newsletter has 81 subscribers, a small party, I know, but it’s still a significant number for a nobody like me who has a typical 9-to-5 job, is not a social media influencer or a millionaire.

I share ideas and success stories and stuff I loved reading throughout the week and people read and appreciate it. Once in a while, I get a reply like this…”Hey…good work…really liked this week’s edition”.

Honestly, this is all I’m writing for. Even if one person is happy with one week of my effort to curate and share content - mission accomplished.

With my reader count slowly increasing organically, I thought of thanking all my subscribers.

I can not do a fancy giveaway because frankly, it would be too cumbersome. At the same time, I always advocate for providing value.

I have decided to use my professional experience along with advice from experts that I’m connected with to craft a complete guide to build a micro-SaaS and send it to all my subscribers for FREE!

Why free? I mean why not? It will not be a never-before-seen sure-shot solution or something like that.

It will be a simply crafted e-book with my perspective and experience to help you get from 0 to online business income faster.

I’ll probably take one or two weeks for this. Stay tuned!

And, now that I have committed it to you guys, there’s no way I can procrastinate (I have been guilty of doing that!). Modern problems require modern solutions!

Ideas and Success Stories
Warm Up for GPT-4 Vision

Today’s ideas section is going to be interesting. We are targeting the future today with something that hasn’t even released to the public yet - the GPT-4V API.

It will probably be announced in early November. Probably.

You can access GPT-4 vision through the Bing app or if you are ChatGPT Plus or Enterprise user (not available to all).

But, I’m sure you’ve seen the videos - an image to a website, decoding your doctor’s bad handwriting, extracting important points from a long insurance document.

When OpenAI’s APIs came out (GPT-3.5, DALL E, etc.), the people who jumped in early were the winners. It’s called the early mover advantage. I did the same with IconMage.

There isn’t going to be a “Success Stories” section today but I’ll love it if you can be part of a success story by using one of these ideas:

• Picture to UI Code: This one’s obvious. Scratch something on paper, take a picture, and get the HTML-CSS-JS code. Now, do it in terms of React components and so on. An efficient and reliable tool in this field would be an industry shaker.

• Interior Design Assistant: You’ve moved into a new house and arranged all your stuff but something feels missing. What can you add? Take a pic and let GPT-4V suggest some ideas.

• Accountant Helper: Accountants around the world in different fields deal with offline receipts and ledgers all the time. What if they could take images and get all the relevant data? What if they could do it with different languages? The accuracy of your application would be critical in this case.

• Plant Care App: We are disconnected from nature so much that we can’t even take care of a tiny potted plant at home. Well, why don’t we get some assistance from AI? Be careful though - don’t kill baby plants.

• Fridge Utilizer App: Okay, a bad name. But here’s the idea: open your fridge, take a pic, and let AI suggest recipes based on what you have, your nutritional requirements, and expiry dates of food items. This sounds like a fun side project but you never know what the market might be ready for.

I can go on and on with these ideas. None of these have been market-tested (of course, I’m sure that #1 is already in high demand; #2 and #3 will surely be purchased by professionals), so you’ll have to do strong PMF (product-market fit) work here. But get ready, you only have a few weeks and you could be landing into something big.

Articles
The Ideal Social Network

Nir Zicherman

A very interesting take by the author on what he thinks would be the ideal social network that would address the fundamental drawbacks of current social media. I disagreed with the author in the comment section, let me know your thoughts too.

Read the complete article

10 years without making a single dollar online

James Fleischmann

Let’s be honest here, you read about success all the time from many sources, my newsletter included, but the fact is failure is much more common than success and clearly not attractive. It is important to fail in order to succeed. Read the story of Joshua Tiernan who failed for 10 years before something clicked.

Read the complete article

Can AI grasp related concepts after learning only one?

New York University

This article can get a bit too technical if you have not studied anything about AI/ML. Researchers from NYU and Spain’s Pompeu Fabra University have developed a technique called Meta-learning for Compositionality (MLC) in order to advance the ability of tools such as ChatGPT to make compositional generalizations.

Read the complete article

News
Apple’s $5B AI servers, Google invests in Anthropic, X subscription, and more

• Apple's attempts to catch up with the rest of the market in the generative AI field could cost more than first thought, with it potentially spending more than $5 billion over two years just on servers…read more

• Global tech giant Google is massively upping its investment in Anthropic, creators of Claude AI. The $2 billion investment, first reported by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by an Anthropic spokesperson to Decrypt, will be made in two payments of $500 million and another of $1.5 billion…read more

• X is adding two new tiers to its subscription offering, previously known as Twitter Blue. The company is adding a new, $16 per month “Premium+ tier” that eliminates ads in users’ following and “for you” timelines, in addition to the blue checkmark and other existing perks for subscribers. X is also adding a new, lower-cost “basic” tier that costs $3 a month…read more

• For the first time ever, researchers at the Surgical Robotics Laboratory of the University of Twente successfully made two microrobots work together to pick up, move and assemble passive objects in 3D environments. This achievement opens new horizons for promising biomedical applications…read more

  This is probably going to win the Nobel-prize some 10-20 years later.

• Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT are complicating governments' efforts to agree laws governing the use of the technology. Here are the latest steps national and international governing bodies are taking to regulate AI tools…read more

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