🤖 Exploring the Ecosystem & Ethics of Advanced AI Agents + Microsoft Build 2024 Recap

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I also share the most useful learning resources that I’ve found each week on how to build your own AI agents and assistants, from beginner to more advanced tutorials.

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In today’s issue:

• AI CARTOON OF THE WEEK

• AI AGENT TWEET OF THE WEEK

• THE RESOURCE ROUNDUP:

  • Recaps from this week’s Microsoft Build 2024 event full of AI Agent-related announcements 📣
    (Spoiler alert: heavy on Copilot)

  • A new research paper from Google DeepMind on the Ethics of Advanced AI Agents 📄🧐

  • A snapshot of how quickly the massive, AI-agent oriented hardware/software ecosystem is developing 🗺️ 👀

• AI MEME OF THE WEEK

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…Let’s dive in!

-MM

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AI CARTOON OF THE WEEK
The not so distant future…

AI AGENT TWEET OF THE WEEK
Watch This…

BEST LINKS THIS WEEK
AI Agent & Assistant News
(Read, Watch, Do)

READ:

Meanwhile, in Seattle…

• Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced
  _{Source: The Verge}

• Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US
  _{Source: CNBC}

• Out of all Microsoft’s Copilot announcements, I’m particularly excited about what they had to share about Agents for Copilot.
  
  The TL;DR on Agents for Copilot:

In other news…

• As with any worthwhile pursuit, it’s important to zoom out and get multiple perspectives on the big picture. Here are a couple great articles I found this week to help you do so with the rapidly evolving landscape of AI Agents:

  • The Rise of Autonomous AI Agents; Debundling the Market Landscape
    _{Source: Medium Blog Post by Annie Liao, Investor at Aura Ventures}

  

  Aura Ventures Thesis Chart

  • Investor POV: AI Agents are disrupting automation: Current approaches, market solutions and recommendations
    _{Source: Insight Partners Blog Post}
    

    

    Insight Partners Blog Post

• The Google DeepMind team recently released an in-depth research paper titled, “The Ethics of Advanced AI Agents.” It’s the longest read I’m sharing today, but time well spent.
  Dive into it here. 

• Did you forget about smarter Alexa on the way? This week, some anonymous Amazon sources wanted to make sure you didn’t (based on reporting by CNBC). The TL;DR is that you might have to pay extra for smarter Alexa… 🤬💸
  Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul, monthly subscription price
  _{Source: CNBC}
  

• Educate yourself on Amazon’s perspective towards what it calls the 3 layers of the GenAI stack, per CEO Andy Jassy’s 2023 Letter to Shareholders (read here).

WATCH:

• Microsoft Build 2024: Everything Revealed in 9 Minutes
  _{Source: CNET (Youtube video)}

• Jump right into the Copilot-specific portion of the Keynote
  _{Source: Microsoft (Youtube video)}

Okay. Enough about Microsoft for now…

• I highly recommend you watch this older-but-awesome overview from AWS re:Invent 2023 on how to: Simplify generative AI app development with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

DO:

Sorry, a couple more things about Microsoft…

• Dive into the latest documentation for Microsoft Copilot and start building! If you reply to this email to let me know what you’re testing/building within Copilot, I’ll give you a shoutout in an upcoming newsletter (named or anonymous — totally up to you).

• Consider registering for and participating for the Microsoft Learn Challenge: Build Edition that is running from May 21 – June 21, 2024.

Noteworthy Guides & Tutorials
(Top 2 picks)

• READ: Understanding Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA) in Fine-Tuning LLMs
  _{Source: Towards Data Science - Medium Blog by Matthew Gunton}
  

• WATCH: Build an AWS Solutions Architect Agent with Amazon Bedrock
  _{Source: The Official AWS Developer Youtube channel}

AI Agent Tools: Pick of the Week

E2B’s Open-source Code Interpreter SDK & Sandboxes for AI Apps

Some weeks, we are gonna feature more technical resources. This is one of those weeks.

Per E2B’s README:

E2B's Code Interpreter SDK allows you to add code interpreting capabilities to your AI apps.

The code interpreter runs inside the E2B Sandbox - an open-source secure sandbox made for running untrusted AI-generated code and AI agents.

• ✅ Works with any LLM and AI framework

• ✅ Supports streaming content like charts and stdout, stderr

• ✅ Python & JS SDK

• ✅ Runs on serverless and edge functions

• ✅ Runs AI-generated code in secure sandboxed environments

• ✅ 100% open source (including infrastructure)

Follow E2B on X (Twitter).

Check it out here:

• https://e2b.dev/

AI MEME OF THE WEEK
AI anthropomorphism? Or reality? 😂

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