🎃 Noteworthy Bits: The State of AI 2023

2023 State of AI Report from Air Street Capital

This is one of the more comprehensive annual reports on Artificial Intelligence covering technological progress, industry, politics, and safety. The report discusses the significant impact Large Language Models (LLMs) have had in the past year, surprising both the AI community and the wider world with their capabilities. OpenAI's GPT-4, in particular, has dominated the field, showcasing the power of proprietary architectures and reinforcement learning from human feedback.

Unbundling AI by Benedict Evans

Benedict does a great job of elegantly describing not just the opportunities but challenges that Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT present through a product lens.

“[T]oday ChatGPT sometimes seems more like the original PCs than like Excel (or VisiCalc). It’s a general purpose technology, there’s a command line, and some stuff that’s theoretically magic, and a few things that are extremely useful to a few people, but we don’t yet have the richness of all the software that came on top - all of the embodied use cases.”

How to Use ChatGPT as Your Personal Assistant for Work from Make Use Of

A helpful guide for leveraging ChatGPT to help with simple work related tasks such as managing to-do lists, providing writing assistance, gaining new skills and more. You don’t need to be a power user to find ways to let this application help alleviate the burden of some more mundane tasks. Share in the comments in you have ways you love to use ChatGPT to save you time.