June 18, 2023
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In This Issue
- Accenture announced plans to double its AI staff to 80,000, just three months after shedding 19,000 jobs in a cost-cutting effort.
- India’s Happiest Minds Technologies is planning to hire 1,300 software engineers, the IT services firm’s biggest staff growth push ever.
- The Challenger Job Cuts May 2023 Report highlights 3,900 positions eliminated in the US because of AI.
- St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth arranged an AI church service that drew hundreds.
- Somebody working in pediatric cancer diagnostics thinks that the only sensible thing to do is to use every means possible to enhance the work of his/her colleagues with GPT-4 to potentially save the lives of children.
- Salesforce decided that the world needs Sales GPT, Service GPT, Marketing GPT, Commerce GPT, Slack GPT, and many other products with poorly chosen names.
P.s.: This week’s Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work is titled How to prompt to buy a burger.
In it, you’ll read what White Castle, Chegg and Netflix are doing with AI.
Also, in the Prompting section, you’ll learn about two new techniques: Ask for Variants and Choose the Best Variant.
Finally, in The Tools of the Trade section, you’ll discover why Vivaldi is the best browser in the world.
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