Move over Siri, we're asking Lex now

Here's your daily briefing:

• As if Lex wasn't anticipated enough, Nathan Baschez just dropped a new demo of the "Ask Lex" feature. The ability to ask questions within a word processor feels like one of those simple but radical innovations that will soon have everyone asking, "Why didn't we think of that?" The negative effects of context switching are well known and widespread. Because of this, we think the compounding effects of staying in the writing/thinking context while "doing research" will prove to be surprisingly profound.

It's only been a few hours since Baschez's tweet and Nat Eliason is already using the "Ask Lex" feature to get recipes without having to sift through a bunch of irrelevant preamble or the "accept cookies"/ad gauntlet of most recipe sites:

• As we discussed yesterday, the self avatar/PFP-izing space is heating up. Here's another competitor throwing their hat in the ring:

LOL at the "meme pack" and "Tinder pack" options:

• In other "practical use-cases for LLMs" news, this thread goes step by step through how this web-search assistant works:

• We read a lot of eBooks and PDFs, which aren't always conducive to the ctrl-f search function. Luckily, Dwarkesh Patel has devised a solution using GPT-3:

• This seems like a big deal. A human has now taken a drug that an ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE discovered 🤖💊🤯:

"patients in a hospital lining at a window where a robot is giving them pills"