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June 1, 2023

Issue #15 - Well, worst case, I'll take a job as cowboy

What's In It?
- It's time for a long exploration of an extreme scenario where AI impacts all white-collar jobs at once. Sigh.
- Ada Palmer, a professor of history at the University of Chicago, is positive about the impact of AI on jobs but advocates for strong government policies.
- David Autor, a professor at MIT, widely regarded as one of the greatest labor economists in the world, is equally positive about the future of work in an AI world.
- The latest survey conducted by Pew Research Centers suggests that a lot of people are talking about something they didn't even try: ChatGPT.
- The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) fires its call center employees to replace them with AI, then shuts down AI.
- Customers services workers start to feel that employers have not been entirely upfront with their workers about the ways they are incorporating generative AI.
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
Other Mentions
- NEDA
- PwC
- Verizon Fios
May 26, 2023

Issue #14 - My job-hunting AI will get in touch to talk with your recruiting AI tomorrow

What's In It?
- New York City just passed a law to regulate how AI is used to hire candidates. Let's just hope it doesn't end up like the EU cookie consent nightmare.
- It turns out that generative AI to create content that reaches the top of Google Search in a matter of two days. One every three people around you will turn into a SEO expert by next week.
- A startup promises to use generative AI to place virtual products in videos. YouTube will copy this in three...two... Influencers to be rich in three...two...
- OpenAI GPT-4 sort of passed an official Radiology exam, performing way better than ChatGPT. Radiologists can still count on their human creativity for...they'll find something.
- DJs and nerd musicians are using AI to create completely new type of music. Meanwhile, other people are busy using AI to copy the existing type of music to get rich.
- UK headteachers are quite concerned about AI and don't want to wait for the government to issue guidance. Wait until they see how much McKinsey costs to give them a speedy answer.
- Smart candidates now use AI to generate resumes and cover letters, fooling HR professionals and hiring managers. Who thought that lying would be so much fun?
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
- Ryff
May 21, 2023

Issue #13 - If you create an AGI that destroys humanity, I'll be forced to revoke your license

What's In It?
- US Senators and OpenAI agree that the US government should be able to issue a license to train an artificial general intelligence and revoke it if it destroys humanity. A flawless plan.
- BT announced plans to cut 40,000 and 55,000 jobs by 2030. They feel that bullish about generative AI.
- SEC Chair warns that the next financial crisis might be caused by generative AI and not Robinhood disabling the buy button again.
- The CNET overworked journalists don't seem relieved at all that AI has started writing articles on their behalf.
- Quiz: let's say that your dart is an AI. How many figurines can you hit on a dartboard depicting 100 professions?
- A psychiatrist starts using ChatGPT to describe patients' mental health. Now she can make $300 / hour without even saying a word.
- Philosopher Daniel Dennett suggests that our society might be on the verge of collapse if generative AI is allowed to pose as real people. Everybody else thought that human trust is overrated.
- You can now rent a synthetic clone of a real woman and pretend she's your girlfriend. But we are well-mannered people and we don't use forbidden words to describe the practice.
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
- Savantcare
Other Mentions
- BT
May 12, 2023

Issue #12 - ChatGPT Sucks at Making Signs

What's In It?
- Ford’s CEO doesn't think he can upskill his entire workforce quick enough: I don’t think they are going to make it. Ford employees, if you are reading this: surpriseeeeee!!!
- DeepMind's co-founder thinks there will be a serious number of losers among white-collar workers because of AI. Like when you don't scratch the right lottery ticket, but with a lot more effort and a huge debt.
- The American science fiction writer Ted Chiang provokes: AI researchers are increasing the concentration of wealth to such extreme levels that the only way to avoid societal collapse is for the government to step in.
- New research uses AI to rephrase human written communication in a more empathetic way and improve interactions. No more fights for logo placement on the Nascar slide inside big corporations?
- Stephen Marche is the nth writer using ChatGPT to compose his masterpiece. Surely, it will be remembered 100 years from now.
- The Writers Guild of America feels like this AI thing is a bit threatening and goes on strike. The BBC shows them they are right.
- A project to create an unstoppable fashion blogger shows how we'll have infinite garbage as long as somebody consumes it.
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
Other Mentions
- BBC
- Ford
May 5, 2023

Issue #11 - The Nutella Threshold

What's In It?
- We now have a Referral Program to read the Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work for free. Potentially.
- The World Economic Forum published its Future of Jobs Report 2023.
- IBM CEO says “I could easily see 7,800 jobs replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period.”
- Chegg Inc. share price crashed from $17.60 (close) to $8.80 (low) after the CEO said that ChatGPT is having an impact on their new customer growth rate during the earnings call.
- The CEO of TurnItIn says that thanks to AI, in 18 months, he will only need 20% of the few hundred engineers he’s employing now. And that he’ll hire them from high school.
- Yuval Noah Harari told The Telegraph that our economic system sees millions of people as completely useless.
- The godfather of artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton, resigned from a post at Google he held for more than a decade so that he could openly talk about the risks of AI without damaging the company.
- New academic research shows that patients prefer the interaction with ChatGPT to the one with doctors.
- Bing AI can be used to hide our inadequacy on Twitter, LinkedIn, and any other online community.
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- Microsoft
Other Mentions
- Chegg
- IBM
- TurnItIn
April 25, 2023

Issue #10 - The Memory of an Elephant

What's In It?
- New research might revolutionize how much AI can remember for every conversation. And that completely changes the things that we can do with it.
- Do you have a unique value proposition? If you don't, your audience might just prefer AI-generated content
- Just Eat is having a great time using automated dismissal technology
- A Fortune company gave its customer service reps generative AI to help them answer customers' calls. Performance increased noticeably.
- While Drake's music label is busy suing to death his fans, Grimes proposes her fans to split the profit if they use her voice to make new songs
- People reveal secrets they don’t tell anybody else to their AI
- Why bother with dating apps when the AI can do it for you? Just show up to the restaurant that GPT-4 has booked for you with the partner of the day.
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Just Eat
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
April 21, 2023

Issue #9 - If You Have Experience With Technologies Like AGI, You Are Encouraged To Apply

What's In It?
- A big PR agency in China has stopped hiring because generative AI is more than enough. Let's see the impact on the image of their clients.
- Independent and employed Chinese artists start to see dramatically fewer job commissions from gaming studios. They now just have to generate the image of a dinner, and they'll be fine.
- The UK Trades Union Congress doesn't find this whole AI thing very amusing.
- New research suggests that observing the AI crushing us in almost every single activity might help us think out of the box.
- When I grow up, I want to be a Knocker Upper.
- AI startups now require candidates to spend a lifetime learning new technologies from the second they are invented and then travel back in time to apply for jobs in the past.
- If you are an AI company and you are marketing the product or the features, you are missing the point.
- Making up research is now a completely legitimate activity. You don't even have to pretend anymore that you did the work.
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Bluefocus Intelligent Communications Group
AI Tech Providers
- Impossible Labs
- Weights & Biases
April 14, 2023

Issue #8 - The Best Funeral of the Year

What's In It?
- Humans have stolen ideas and work from other humans way before generative AI. Learn when and how, once and for all so you stop this absurd call to boycott AI art.
- What happens to your economy if are not the United States and all the businesses in your country get denied access to AI?
- Do you really care if generative AI can't produce high-fidelity content? Be honest.
- What the new AI-first startups are focused on and what might happen to them in the future
- How much it costs to compete against OpenAI (on the same grounds)
- Who wants to try and manipulate an emerging Artificial General Intelligence to destroy humanity and be paid a fortune to do that?
- Surprise! AI-generated answers can manipulate people's opinion
- You won't have to write a single eulogy for the rest of your life. Happy?
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- Anthropic
- Empathy
- OpenAI
April 7, 2023

Issue #7 - The Human Computer

What's In It?
- Using Google Search is a horrifying experience compared to asking questions to GPT-4. OpenAI will fix it soon.
- AI-related legal cases are on the rise. There never was a better time to become a robo-lawyer.
- Critics of the FLI open letter: "You are being ridiculous. It's just math". So let's hear from somebody that actually knows math.
- Goldman Sachs: "Don't look now, but 300MM jobs need a bit of reskilling."
- Once upon a time, people could be hired to do calculations and their job title was "Computer."
- The demand for AI skills is raising in every industry of the economy. Thankfully, you read Synthetic Work.
- When an AI uses emojis to reply to you, it's not cute. It's manipulative.
- Soon, you'll be able to lie more than usual during dates and job interviews. Happy?
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- Google
- OpenAI
Other Mentions
- Goldman Sachs
March 31, 2023

Issue #6 - Putting Lipstick on a Pig (at a Wedding)

What's In It?
- Ken Griffin can't wait to turn the Finance industry upside down with GPT-4
- Coca-Cola allegedly explores the new frontier of product placement
- Microsoft couldn't wait a second longer to litter with ads your chats with its AI
- There is a connection between the invention of spreadsheet and the transformation of the financial workforce
- Once upon a time, photocopiers were scary
- Is trading the only human interaction that will be algorithmic in future?
- Humans remain equally gullible after 60 years of exposure to AI
- How to start your marriage with a lie in 101 ways
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Coca-Cola
AI Tech Providers
- Joy
- Microsoft
- Midjourney
- OpenAI
Other Mentions
- Capital Management
- Citadel
- Citadel Securities
- Renaissance Technologies
- Two Sigma
- Virtu
March 24, 2023

Issue #5 - You are not going to use 19 years of Gmail conversations to create an AI clone of my personality, are you?

What's In It?
- Somebody has a copy of everything you said in the last few years and could eventually create an AI clone of you
- Non-tech people start to realize that AI can do a better job than their worst employees
- OpenAI researchers take a look at the job market and say "uh-oh"
- In 1980, the US employed 750,000 typists
- Middle managers and executives: your days are numbered
- When you feel like you are falling in love with AI you should really have a cold shower
- Anthropic's Claude AI is in charge of the jokes this week
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.
AI Tech Providers
- Tavus
Other Mentions
- Verizon
March 17, 2023

Issue #4 - A lot of decapitations would have been avoided if Louis XVI had AI

What's In It?
- People have started automating the production and publishing of YouTube shorts. I call it "The Perpetual Garbage Generator".
- GPT-4 can now memorize all the infamous details of your life and use them against you in future conversations
- If you are a telemarketer, a teacher, or a psychologist, I have a scary, scary chart to show you
- In less than 50 years, we moved from clunky digital cameras to sleek smartphones that use AI to make up photos
- The Romanian government has started using AI to work way less than any other politician on Earth
- People using AI for software development are caught smiling like teenagers in love in front of the screen
- South Park has dedicated an entire episode to ChatGPT and it's glorious
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
- Oscar Health
- Replit
March 10, 2023

Issue #3 - For Dummies: How to steal your coworkers' promotion with AI

What's In It?
- A dishonest photographer shows us how a coworker might steal your promotion
- Office workers buying AI services might finally render obsolete the IT department in big corps
- A science fiction magazine overwhelmed by AI-generated spam submissions shows us that content curation might become an impossible job
- We used to have to convince people to buy typewriters
- There's a new job called synthetic celebrity and, yes, no human does it
- Musicians initially tried to boycott recorded music (they are all dead now, don't worry)
- ChatGPT makes the joke of the week in Woody Allen style
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- Superplastic
Other Mentions
- Louvre
March 3, 2023

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

What's In It?
- 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
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- Apple
- Descript
- OpenAI
- Replika
February 24, 2023

Issue #1 - When I grow up, I want to be a Prompt Engineer and Librarian

What's In It?
- Cathie Wood calls AI the assembly line for knowledge workers
- Synthetic text is a much bigger business opportunity than synthetic images
- The AI landscape is already completely different compared to three months ago
- AutoCAD has saved us a lot of real estate space for lovely cubicles
- You can now make more money than a VP in a medium-sized company with just two years of experience
- Microsoft is showing the world what happens if we let a psychopathic AI interact with humans
- I had an incredible idea for an AI-powered dating app
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- Anthropic
- Microsoft
February 15, 2023

Issue #0

What's In It?

Nothing. There's nothing in this issue. It's just to show you the various sections of the newsletter. You are not impressed, I know.

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June 4, 2023

Issue #15 - I'd like to buy 4K AI experts, thank you

What's In It?
- Wells Fargo is using large language models to help determine what information clients must report to regulators and how they can improve their business processes.
- Carvana used generative AI to produce 1.3 million personalized video ads for its customers to celebrate 10 years in business.
- Deutsche Bank is using AI to scan the portfolios of its clients and suggest new investments.
- Amazon is using computer vision AI models to screen items for damage before orders are shipped to customers.
- JP Morgan Chase is preparing to launch a generative AI service like GPT-4 to offer investment advice to its clients.
- In the What Can AI Do for Me section, let's see how GPT-4 can help us fully document a corporate procedure as mortally boring as opening a bank account.
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Wells Fargo
- Carvana
- Deutsche Bank
- Amazon
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
May 26, 2023

Issue #14 - How to prepare what could be the best presentation of your life with GPT-4

What's In It?
- How to write a presentation with GPT-4 using many of the techniques in the How to Prompt section of Synthetic Work
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
May 21, 2023

Issue #13 - Hey, great news, you potentially are a problem gambler

What's In It?
- KPMG has started using a customized version of ChatGPT that finds the right experts to pitch for a proposal within a 10,000-people database.
- The US Air Force is testing if artificial intelligence can fly F-16 fighter jets.
- Flutter Entertainment and Entain use AI to identify the so-called problem gambling.
- New Balance is using AI for footwear design.
- The Wildlife Conservation Society is using AI to design routes with the highest chances of finding poacher traps for park rangers in Cambodia.
- In the Prompting section, we make a breakthrough as we discover how AI can help solve the You don’t know what you don’t know problem.
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- KPMG
- US Air Force
- Flutter Entertainment
- Entain
- New Balance
- Wildlife Conservation Society
AI Tech Providers
- Microsoft
- Mindway AI
- OpenAI
- Runway AI
May 12, 2023

Issue #12 - And You Thought That Horoscopes Couldn't Be Any Worse

What's In It?
- MakeMyTrip is rolling out an AI voice assistant to help customers book flights and hotels
- Wendy’s is starting to use GPT-4 to take customers’ orders for their drive-through service
- Citadel Securities confirms that the market maker has completed the negotiation phase with OpenAI
- Takeda Pharmaceutical is completing the trial tests for a new psoriasis drug designed by AI in six months
- Ingenio has started using OpenAI models to generate articles about astrology.
- In the Prompting section, we explore how much you can achieve with a good prompt and when that is not good enough anymore
- In the Tools of the Trade section we explore the glorious MacGPT
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- MakeMyTrip
- Wendy's
- Citadel Securities
- Takeda Pharmaceutical
- Ingenio
AI Tech Providers
- Google
- Microsoft
- Nimbus Therapeutics
- OpenAI
May 5, 2023

Issue #11 - Personalized Ads and Personalized Tutors

What's In It?
- Khan Academy roped in OpenAI's GPT-4 to create Khanmigo, an AI tutor who never had to endure school lunches.
- UC San Diego Health & UW Health deployed AI to draft patient responses; Doctors: "Our new favorite colleague doesn't even need coffee breaks!"
- WPP spiced up ad campaigns with AI, because who wouldn't want a virtual Shah Rukh Khan selling chocolates?
- VentureBeat is rolling out AI-assisted articles, giving reporters a new non-human entity to blame for typos.
- King (the maker of Candy Crush) utilizes AI for game testing, because apparently, humans alone couldn't get enough of crushing candies.
- GrammarlyGO is our Tool of the Trade for the week.
- The Step-by-step reasoning is our Prompting technique of the week.
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Khan Academy
- WPP
- UC San Diego Health
- UW Health
- VentureBeat
- King
AI Tech Providers
- Epic
- Grammarly
- OpenAI
April 28, 2023

Issue #10 - The Fed Whisperer

What's In It?
- Coca-Cola formally announces that it doesn't give a crap about the legal issues surrounding generative AI and it's using it like there's no tomorrow
- Walmart is using AI to automate the tedious negotiation with suppliers. No, you can't do the same with your significant other. Yet.
- Somehow, JPMorgan Chase & Co is trying to decode the language used in Fed meetings to find signals to trade. Politicians next?
- Three powerful techniques to reduce the number of tokens (and your bill) in the interaction with GPT-4: The Power of No, Memory Consolidation, and Alien Language Translation
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Coca-Cola
- JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Walmart
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
- Pactum
April 21, 2023

Issue #9 - The Tools of the Trade

What's In It?
- HSBC launches a new AI-powered index. It looks a lot like the old one, let's hope the performance is better.
- Aberhart Farms has been testing drones for weeding for years. Probably because it's very fun.
- 88Nine Radio Milwaukee is using AI to power an experimental radio station. The human radio host still doesn't suspect anything.
- How to use The ~~Annoying~~ Curious Child prompting technique to get more detailed outputs from GPT-4
- My favourite teleprompter app and why AI makes it stand apart from an ocean of terrible alternatives
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Aberhart Farms
- Radio Milwaukee
- HSBC
AI Tech Providers
- AWS
- ElevenLabs
- Norton Five
- OpenAI
- Precision AI
- Super Hi-Fi
April 14, 2023

Issue #8 - The Harbinger of Change

What's In It?
- We have a new section dedicated to using GPT-4 to get your job done (with real-world examples!)
- How to write a better product pitch to lure in vain industry analysts
- How to dodge useless meetings without giving away that you are totally lying
- How to write a market report at a microscopic fraction of what analysis firms would charge you
- How to write a blog post for a product announcement better than Google (OK, here the bar is very low)
- How to lay off your employees with the style of a king
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
April 7, 2023

Issue #7 - How Not to Do Product Reviews

What's In It?
- The ten AI-first products I use on daily basis
- How to compare the AI models from A12 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Eleuther AI, Google, Meta, OpenAI, etc.
- How I use GPT-4 Plus to do things I am crap at (and how it feels like being in an Iron Man movie)
- What's the job-to-be-done of a chatbot/assistant? And where do people feel more natural to find it?
- How I used Perplexity AI to do things I am not crap at, but I don't have time to do
- Do we need bigger AI models or better prompt engineering skills?
- What does it mean for an AI company to compete against OpenAI? And for how long is it sustainable?
- How much money will you be happy to pay for GPT-22?
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
- Perplexity AI
March 31, 2023

Issue #6 - I Know That This Steak Doesn't Exist

What's In It?
- Generative AI is turning people that don't know how to code into coders, and software engineers into software engineers with 1000x the attitude
- GPT-4 is no longer your copilot, it is now your captain as it builds the app your worked 3 weeks on in just 30 minutes
- Developers are already thinking about new programming languages designed to work with large language models
- It turns out that the AI can be pushed to role-play as an expert, explain its reasoning, and/or self-plan to massively improve the generated output
- It also turns out that the AI can create imaginary worlds that follow rigid rules: like when it pretends to be a Linux terminal
- It also turns out that you can use AI to automatically correct bugs in your mediocre code, creating a "self-healing" program
- Meanwhile, somebody managed to replace the brain of Siri with GPT-3 and the answers you get, finally, don't cause you fits of anger
- The next step, as shown by Meta AI, is an AI that can learn what's the best API to call to achieve the goal indicated in your prompt
- The next-next step is replacing all legacy backends like databases with a large language model.
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- GitHub
- Meta
- OpenAI
- Replit
- Scale AI
March 24, 2023

Issue #5 - The Perpetual Garbage Generator

What's In It?
- How a guy with WordPress and a GPT-4 subscription can generate infinite content
- BuzzFeed has started using AI in January to generate content
- Before them, CNET Money has silently started publishing ChatGPT-generated content (full of inaccuracies that nobody bothered to fact-check)
- An AI makes it easy to paraphrase other AIs to not get caught by other AIs
- The publisher of the UK Daily Mirror wants to play the automated content publishing game, too
- The publisher of Sports Illustrated has been way faster than them
- It really doesn't look bright for mediocre journalists, but they will fight back. Yes. By demanding a subsidy
- And by using AI to make you pay even harder for the AI-generated content that is inspired by your conversations on social media
- LinkedIn launches "collaborative articles" where AI does a tiny bit and you, the user, do the rest (their role in all of this is profiting, in case you are wondering)
- Every publishing platform and channel will be saturated with AI-generated content. It already started
- And it's so severe that organizations like AP, Nature, Elsevier, and The Committee on Publication Ethics, had to create anti-AI policies
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- BuzzFeed
- CNET
- LinkedIn
- Arena Group Holdings
AI Tech Providers
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- QuillBot
- Uncanny Automator
- WordPress
Other Mentions
- Associated Press
- Bankrate
- CreditCards.com
- Elsevier
- Nature
- News Corp
- Reach
- Reddit
- The New York Times
March 17, 2023

Issue #4 - Medical AI to open new hospital in the metaverse to assist (human) ex doctors affected by severe depression

What's In It?
- Why not use Stable Diffusion to generate the image of a tooth growing in a person’s brain, so young doctors learn how disgusting their profession can be?
- OK. Let's just generate chest X-rays for edge use cases. Somebody has a lovely AI model for you to download
- Somebody else is analyzing the voice of patients to spot signs of anxiety
- Google Med-PaLM 2 consistently performs at an “expert” doctor level on medical exam questions
- DeepMind predicts the 3D structures of the over 200 million known proteins to boost drug discovery
- Microsoft wants to play, too, and fine-tunes BioGPT on 15M PubMed abstracts
- Stability AI launches yet another satellite organization: MedARC
- Meanwhile, in Hungary, AI spots 22 undiagnosed cases of breast cancer
- In the US, another AI is used to identify atrial fibrillation, diabetic retinopathy, and sepsis
- The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says "party is over"
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Bács-Kiskun County Hospital
- Cano Health
- Cigna
- MaMMa Klinika
- Mayo Clinic
- Sinai Hospital
AI Tech Providers
- Bayesian Health
- DeepMind
- Ellipsis Health
- Google
- Kheiron
- MedARC
- Microsoft
March 10, 2023

Issue #3 - I will edit and humanize your AI content

What's In It?
- "Prompt Engineer" is now a profession, and it pays more than yours
- "Fact-checker" is now a profession, too, but it pays absolutely nothing. Discuss.
- One-third of business leaders interviewed (in a questionable survey) say that the adoption of ChatGPT will definitely lead to layoffs by end of 2023
- Consensus is that people mastering AI will displace people not mastering AI
- Which leads to students having a crisis about what to study next and if it's worth it
- Even famous developers have their spider senses tingling
- Meanwhile, recruiters have started a despicable thing called automated video interviews
- So, for your next job, you might end up being interviewed by Morgan Freeman (it's not a good thing)
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Publicis Le Pont
- Allen & Overy
- Mishcon de Reya
AI Tech Providers
- Cammio
- Curious Thing
- Fiverr
- HireVue
- Humanly
- Modern Hire
- Spark Hire
- Stability AI
- Willo
- myInterview
Other Mentions
- Boston Children Hospital
- Raona
March 3, 2023

Issue #2 - Law firms' morale at an all-time high now that they can use AI to generate evil plans to charge customers more money

What's In It?
- DoNotPay successfully uses AI to automatically negotiate a bill discount with a human customer service rep
- They also try to use ChatGPT in a US Supreme Court case. It turns out it's not safe for your health.
- Top UK law firm starts using Harvey AI to assist 3,500 lawyers with mergers & acquisitions. No big deal.
- Meanwhile, another top UK law firm has started hiring "prompt engineers"
- Robin AI uses AI (duh) to help lawyers generate drafts and review legal contracts
- Academics test large language models to work both as lobbyists and fiduciaries.
- Two courts in Colombia used ChatGPT to reach a verdict. It's ok to have a bad feeling about this
- AI is good at translating. What if it starts translating legalese for the average citizen?
Who's In It?
AI Adopters
- Allen & Overy
- Mishcon de Reya
AI Tech Providers
- Anthropic
- DoNotPay
- Harvey AI
- Robin AI
February 24, 2023

Issue #1 - Burn the books, ban AI. Screwed teachers: Middle Ages are so sexy.

What's In It?
- It took just two months for 3,600 students in the third most prestigious university in the world to start cheating with AI.
- ChatGPT passes top exams designed for humans with (almost) flying colours
- Meanwhile, tuition and college textbooks prices have skyrocketed in the last 22 years
- Of course, schools start banning ChatGPT across the world
- Unfortunately for them, watermarking is useless
- Rather than having a knee-jerk reaction, some teachers incorporate ChatGPT in their classes
- Thankfully, Seth Godin weighs in with his usual wisdom
Who's In It?
AI Tech Providers
- OpenAI
Other Mentions
- Appalachian State University
- George Washington University
- McGill University
- Rutgers University
- Stanford University
February 15, 2023

Issue #0

What's In It?

Nothing. There's nothing in this issue. It's just to show you the various sections of the newsletter. You are not impressed, I know.

Who's In It?

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