Issue #2 - 61% of the office workers admit to having an affair with the AI inside Excel

March 3, 2023
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In This Issue
  • GPT-4 might have enough memory to remember all your shameful secrets and use them against you in future conversations
  • Religious leaders are freaking out
  • OpenAI is planting the seeds to guarantee the ubiquity of its AI
  • Wealthy businessmen used to record their notes with a machine bigger than a horse head
  • When your mother was saying that the audiobook narrator is not a real job, she was onto something
  • People fall in love with AI easier and faster than in Argentinean telenovelas

P.s.: This week’s Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work is titled Law firms’ morale at an all-time high now that they can use AI to generate evil plans to charge customers more money and it’s about AI infiltrating the Legal industry.

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  • how your peers are using AI in your industry (Education, Finance, Government, Health Care, Media & Entertainment, Tech, etc.)
  • what are life-changing AI tools that can enhance your productivity at work (tested or used by me personally)
  • why and when to use specific techniques (like prompting) to improve your interaction with the AI
  • how you can use AI to perform tasks that matter in your profession
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Intro

The feedback I got about the first issue, sent out last week, is better than I expected. Readers have said things like:

I really like the newsletter layout. It is chocked full of useful information, insights and humor. Hats off to you on the first edition!

or

I’m pretty disappointed. Didn’t you promise I was probably going to be disappointed by the newsletter? Turns out I’m not. It’s awesome!

Just to be clear: I did not pay these people. That’s why I’m putting their quotes on a dedicated Testimonials page. You know, to increase peer pressure.

One thing that some people asked is if Synthetic Work is going to be a weekly newsletter. The answer is: yes, that’s the goal.

And to be sure it’ll be 10x harder for me to achieve that goal, this week I also announced a second project: a video podcast about Artificial Intelligence in Italian, hosted on the famous website 01net and done in collaboration with the Italian media company Tecniche Nuove.

It’s a weekly 10-minute pill for people that didn’t find the subscribe button on the Synthetic Work website. The first episode is out and you can tell why I detest being in front of a camera.

Anyway.
Alessandro

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