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Welcome to Brain Salad, your weekly portion of the freshest things happening in AI.

Let’s tuck in.

In this week’s edition:

• Stanford and Google make an AI town 🏙️

• YC Latest batch, “Maybe AI can do… this?” 🤔

• There’s a ChatGPT plugin for that…🔌

• Plus tools, trending news, and memes…

Stanford’s AI Town. Population: 25 👋

Ai Researchers at Stanford and Google released an incredible new paper this week. They designed a Pokemon-like virtual town populated by friendly AI.

The sim involved 25 AI avatars all equipped with memory, reflection, and planning capabilities. The researchers then let them run loose. So basically The Sims but with characters that control themselves (they even managed to arrange a Valentine’s party).

AI All The Things!

Techcrunch writer Devin sat through the latest batch of YC demos and was blown away by the sheer number of AI-based startups.

According to Devin the overriding theme this year was “AI can do that, probably! Maybe.”

Is this a replay of the rush to fund Web 3 starts ups? Possibly but arguably the real-world applications are more tangible this time around.

Read the full article here.

ChatGPT Plugins are wild

If you’ve been on Twitter this week your feed will have no doubt been taken over with chatter about ChatGPT plugins.

If you can think of it, there’s likely a plugin for it. Some highlights include:

Opentable: Use ChatGPT to parse millions of reviews on Opentable’s platform to find the most relevant places for you.

Fiscalnote: Selling across borders and remaining compliant can be a total headache. Enter Fiscalnote. Simply ask a question and get the answers you need.

Do Not Pay: AI Pioneers Do Not Pay makes it easier to cancel your gym subscription and take ownership of your third-party data.

What are your favourite plugins? Let me know on Twitter.

Fresh stuff 🥗

Meet LifeOS, the operating system for your entire life.

Love Hacker News but get stuck trying to find that one link? Try out Ask Hacker News.

Jam helps you report bugs without disrupting your workflow.

A screenshot from the 1,000,000th episode of The Simpsons.

Scientists build tiny robots that can inspect and manipulate your cells.

AutoGPT is the new kid on the block. Here’s a good breakdown from Greg Isenberg.

Mayday is an AI-assisted calendar that helps you organise, schedule, and protect your day.

Ask questions and extract datasets from research papers.

Use Eesel to automatically organise your bookmarks and work into folders.

Xpression Cameras Voice2Face tech is completely bonkers.

Billionaires slumming it on Instagram 

Check Gokul’s Insta for more weirdness…

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The concrete eating contest takes a weird turn…

Chomp down the full collection here.

That’s it for this week, say hello on Twitter @mrcunsolo