Can AI take your job? A copywriter tested it

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You’ll still really struggle to copyright AI art creations and the legal proceedings are now there to prove it.

To be honest, I wouldn’t have expected copyrighting law to track the insanely rapid AI developments anyway. The topic is inherently complex and somewhat subjective, and I’m holding hope that in relatively short order it will catch up. I think the view that photographs have more human input than AI art is one that naturally needs more time than people are giving it; time for lawmakers and the public to appreciate the prompting work that goes into producing something truly impressive with AI.

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Does anyone else find it as weird and uneasy as I do being on a Google web page that isn’t a search result? Anyway, this blog post on Google’s 2022 run-down and look to the future still has me wondering: When’s it's ChatGPT competitor coming out?

This is a cool take in light of that exact question, and whether or not Google will actually do it in response to competitive danger from OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Google simply won’t accept the risk of being responsible for misleading or wrong ‘search’ results, and subsequently won’t release the fully-fledged product we’re all expecting. Who knows!

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Quick question: If you discovered that a technology could do your job, would you publicly explain to thousands of people, including your employer, exactly how? The answer is no. Keep that gold to yourself! Except this Guardian journalist’s answer was yes, and he just brought ChatGPT scaremongering to the mainstream. In the article, he communicates the threat of AI to copywriters like himself by showcasing AI doing his own job… as well as him. Gulp.

This strange response notwithstanding, as we enter this new age of progress in AI it’s important not to spend time fretting about the fate of jobs - if they go they go, and if they don’t they don’t. Time is better spent looking for ways it can improve productivity at work and in your personal life. We’ll be better off if we learn to dance with AI rather than fight it.

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The best investors in AI... - who should be on that list?! Kate Clark, from The Information, asked Twitter and I included a few of my favourites, but if you know of any (or are one!) let Kate know here. I'd love to have helped compile the ultimate list. Oh, and let Kate you came from Ben's Bites of course 😊 .

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• LangChainHub - A place to share and discover LangChainAI prompts, chains, and agents. (link)

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• MediaPipe Studio from Tensorflow - On-device ML solutions in your web browser without writing a single line of code. (link)

🤓 Miscellaneous

• The ChatGPT revolution: Powering up programmers and beyond. (link)

• AI will bring zero platform disruption… don’t kid yourself, the big players will continue to be the big players. (link)

• But what about for film? Apparently generative AI is bringing the biggest disruption to film making in 100 years. (link)

• Will Chinese LLMs be much worse? (link)

• Thinking through the bull case for OpenAI’s threat to Google’s dominance. (link)

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• Summer camp programs for children. Track and follow each step with AI. (link)

• I get overwhelmed by how much stuff I read online. So I outsourced my memory to an AI app. (link)

• The human-AI reflective equilibrium. (link)

• ChatGPT in computational chemistry. (link)

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• Build your own GPT-3 AI app with Next.js and OpenAI. (link)

• How a transformer works at inference vs training time. (link)

• How To fine-tune Donut - A document AI model to extract data from docs. (link)

• How ChatGPT is trained. (link)

🔬 Research

• Introducing Demonstrate–Search–Predict (𝗗𝗦𝗣) framework - No more prompt engineering. (link)

• A case study toward robustly communicating with AI through legal standards. (link)

• Putting ChatGPT’s medical advice to the (turing) test. (link)

• The Semantic Scholar - Open data platform to help scholars discover and understand scientific literature. (link)

• K-planes - A white-box model for radiance fields in arbitrary dimensions. (link)

• SMART - Self-supervised multi-task pre training with control transformers. (link)

• A watermark for large language models. (link)

• Google’s general LM to decipher clinical abbreviations and enable training without patient data. (link)

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