Generate human-like-written essays, answers and text content with GPT-3 💬
The end of the year is here 🤯 Let’s welcome 2022 with wide, open arms as a new year only means new opportunities and tons of possibilities! What are you and your team planning on achieving for the new year?
For the Sparkmate tribe, it’s to continue supporting entrepreneurs and changemakers in imagining, building, and launching outstanding products to speed up their time to market. And as the year ends, we’re giving some time today to look back at what we’ve built in 2020 and 2021 - and we’d love to share some of them with you! More about this below.
Here’s what we’ve put together for your weekly Spark reads:
💙 NEWS FROM OUR MATESJoin Techstars on their #AMA session next Monday 🙋♀️
There’s 1 week left to apply to be part of the Techstars Accelerator program in Paris! To answer any question you might have, our mate Raphael Leyendecker, Managing Director of Techstars Paris, is collaborating with alumni Baptiste Fradin (TS’14 and Impact investor at FAMAE impact) and Thomas Devineaux (TS’18 cofounder of Louis Design) on an #AskMeAnything session.
They’ll mainly cover “How to Accelerate Startups Tackling Sustainability”, but will be there to satiate any curiosities you have on the Techstars program. Whether you’re considering to apply, or are just interested in entrepreneurship and the startup life, RSVP to join them on Jan 3, Monday, at 5PM CET.
🤸 FUN PRODUCT WE LOVEBrain-dump easily with Voiceliner 📱
Do you usually have long conversations with friends, having scattered ideas and references that come and go? Or are you the type to think out loud, and just want to save all of those quickly and in a structured way? If you do, you just might love Voiceliner!
Voiceliner is an easy mobile app that auto-transcribes voice notes, helps you recognize keywords, play them back, and structures your notes using AI so they make sense to you - organized in different “outlines” for various subjects and topics. They also have location-based notes if you want to remind yourself to visit that store your team told you about!
Voiceliner is quite new, they’ve just released days ago on the AppStore and Google PlayStore after 4 months of development! Go ahead and try it - help a fellow entrepreneur out and give them your feedback if you have any ;)
💭 TECH FOOD FOR THOUGHTGenerate human-like-written essays, answers and text content with GPT-3 💬
Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is a natural language processing model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text, and is doing well at it! Developed by OpenAI, Elon Musk’s AI research lab, the GPT-3 can write news articles, argumentative essays to questions and more just by feeding it a few words, phrases or sentences.
Do you think Artificial Intelligence would ever match up to human intelligence? Some don’t agree: “Artificial intelligence programs lack consciousness and self-awareness,” researcher Gwern Branwen wrote in his article about GPT-3. “They will never be able to have a sense of humor. They will never be able to appreciate art, or beauty, or love. They will never feel lonely. They will never have empathy for other people, for animals, for the environment. They will never enjoy music or fall in love, or cry at the drop of a hat.”
This ^ was actually written by GPT-3, after being expressed skepticism about AI in just a few words - Wow!
🌱 TECH FOR SUSTAINABILITYGame of Trawls is here to save marine life 🐠
Did you know that 1/4 of global marine catches are discarded back at sea, already damaging eco-systems, or are brought back to shore where they are not made use of?
This is caused by trawling, a widely used fishing method that fishers use to tow a huge net behind a boat, and collect as many fish they can in a certain area. This overhaul causes overfishing of unintended or endangered species, and impacts corals along the way.
Ifremer, a french oceanographic institution, is developing a smart net called Game of Trawls (we love the name!) that can sort fish in water using a network of sensors, cameras, and AI, which fishermen can use to select specific species, their size and their abundance.
💥 WHAT’S ON @ SPARKMATECelebrating projects we’ve built in 2020 and 2021 🎉
As the year ends, we reflect on our gratitude of being able to work with entrepreneurs and changemakers who want to make an impact on the world with their products - products that solve pain points, products that boost life and living, products that open new revolutions and transformations.
As we look back, we’ve put together a quick slideshow to show you a few projects we’ve been grateful to have been a part of. Take a look and let us know what you think!
And to all of our mates and partners who have worked with us, we want to say a big thank you for trusting and believing in us. We look forward to a new year of building even more outstanding products, and supporting entrepreneurs in building their ventures - with you by our side!
Exciting things are happening every day ⚡️ Follow us on social media to stay tuned!